Abstract
The paper describes the destructive love theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". It shows how the love mirage is perfectly exemplified in the story of Gatsby and Daisy: Love lost, love missed, love found, love dismissed. The paper shows how love gives the character Gatsby the ambition to succeed in life, and eventually how it destroys him and kills him.

From the Paper
"No force or emotion is more powerful than idealized love. Only love can blind a man until he has no conscious level of life, logic, or sorrow. Love is an irresistible, mindless emotion that warms the heart into a pulp of sentiment. This force precipitates an everlasting high that erases time, making its victim feel bubbly and nauseous with gaiety, feeding off of a precious memory. Submerged in fascination, one can bask in admiration of another for years at a time, laughing at those he has wasted. Any man would comfortably invest all his money in sweet nothings, merely for the sake of impressing his beloved. Such an innocent, cute candor, love can be. How delectable it must feel to be considered a lady's knight in shining armor! Do it all, till she cry "My brave warrior, I must have you!" And you will indeed get the girl and carry her away, as Gatsby did in Fitzgerald's novel. She will be instantly yours' or until she discovers your double-edged sword."

Tags:Tuolomee, knight, Tom, Myrtle

Abstract
This paper analyzes the novel "Daisy Miller" by Henry James from the perspective of the Madonna-whore complex. As the paper explains, men who suffer from the Madonna-Whore complex believe that only good women deserve their love, while bad women are only good for sex. While these men seek out bad women to fulfill their sexual needs, the paper continues, they marry a good woman -- but are shocked thereafter when she expresses sexuality. So much so, that the woman is then seen not as a Madonna, but as a whore. This is the theme of Henry James novel "Daisy Miller", which this paper explores by examining James' portrayal of Winterbourne's emotionally ambivalent reactions and actions toward Daisy. The paper examines the social conventions of the time the story is set in, analyzes Daisy's sexuality and behavior, and critiques Winterbourne's actions -- which ultimately lead to Daisy's demise, and the proving of her innocence.

From the Paper
"Winterbourne's attitude towards women is, in fact, hinted at in the narrator's very introduction. For, the narrator takes the trouble to inform the reader that Winterbourne was rumored to have a relationship with an older woman in Geneva (p. 4). The possible inference that can be drawn from this information is that Winterbourne may just suffer from a mother fixation or an Oedipus complex. Since the Oedipus complex is considered to be an important factor in creating the Madonna-Whore complex, the narrator's introduction of Winterbourne can be considered as indicative of the events still to unfold."

Tags:sex, sexuality, relationships, men, women, madonna-whore, promiscuity, attraction

Abstract
Blanche Dubois and Daisy Buchanan are two main characters in literature. Blanche is the main character in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Daisy is the main character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby". An analysis of these two characters in this paper shows that while they are similar based on their upbringing and their need to hide from reality, they are opposites on all other fronts, including how their upbringing has influenced them, what they are concerned with, how they experience love, whether they are willing to make sacrifices, whether they are able to let go of the past and how their problems are resolved.

From the Paper
"Another difference in the two characters is how they experience love. Daisy appears to be incapable of love. While she does claim to have loved Gatsby in their past, she quickly forgets him when he goes to war and she begins seeing other men. She also claims to love him in the present but when it comes the time to make a decision, she chooses Tom because he has wealth. In addition, she allows Gatsby to take the blame when she runs over Myrtle Wilson and does not even attend Gatsby's funeral. These are all signs that Daisy does not feel love, but only experiences love based on how it benefits her. Blanche is almost the complete opposite. She feels love deeply, to the point where she cannot let go of the love she feels for her husband Stanley."

Tags:Myrtle, Wilson, Tom, Nick

Abstract
Perhaps the most straightforward ethical dilemmas dealt with in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" are those concerning the dealings of money and those regarding love. The paper shows, however, that the underlying code of ethics in question is the interaction between the two and how inextricably and wholly overlapping and connected money and love are in governing American relationships. Also, the characters may be emotionally unable to make ethically sound decisions, as a world without conscience has rendered them devoid of truth. The paper shows that these characters face a series of ethical dilemmas for which they are not held accountable within the narrative, partly because they seem incapable of acting otherwise.

From the Paper
"Tom subscribes to morals without possessing ideals to which he can adhere. After being confronted with Daisy's affair with Gatsby, he admits, "what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time" (138). This appears to be quite a statement, considering that throughout the rest of the novel Tom is very nearly without the capacity to verbalize feelings or ideas unless appropriated (poorly, at that) from other sources. The fact that he believes he loves her all the time, even as he goes off on "sprees," is suggestive of the same kind of innocence Nick allows Jordan; the language makes it sound as though he is almost incapable of choosing well in the midst of an ethical question, and so it perhaps shouldn't even be expected of him."

Tags:Tom, Myrtle, Nick, Daisy, Buchanan, American, Dream

Abstract
This paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby," and, in particular, looks at how Jay Gatsby is a man driven to destruction by his love for money. It shows how Fitzgerald is able to weave the dream of love with the American Dream with tremendous success and how the novel is filled with warnings of the degenerative effects of money. It discusses how the complexities involved with America's class structure during the 1920s are colorfully depicted.

From the Paper
"What makes Gatsby's character detestable is the fact that he idolizes money and becomes extremely materialistic. We can know this because he shows off his expensive shirt collection to Daisy. It is important to note that Gatsby's materialism is fused with his love for Daisy when Nick says, "He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes" (93). From this statement we can see how his love for money is almost synonymous with his love for Daisy because he cannot separate the two. In addition, it is obvious how Gatsby began to seek approval from Daisy from her responses to his wealth."

Tags:materialism, daisy, nick, american, dream, class

Abstract
This paper discusses the love story in Scott F. Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby," and examines the reasons for the failure of the love affair between the characters Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. The paper describes the plot of the story, the characters and their class backgrounds and argues that the relationship was doomed by the discrepancy in the characters' social status.

From the Paper
"As we have seen, the love affair between Gatsby and Daisy was doomed by their class differences. Gatsby was lucky to even manage to meet Daisy, and only achieved this because his uniform disguised his class. Moreover, even though Gatsby spent five years acquiring the wealth and possessions which he thought would lure Daisy back to him, this was not to be. To lure Daisy back and keep her, Gatsby would have needed more than money - he would have needed social class. There are some things money cannot buy, and class is one of them. Thus, despite Gatsby's best efforts, their love affair remained doomed by their class differences."

Tags:status, affair, characters

Abstract
This paper examines how F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel "The Great Gatsby", uses heat to convey the confusion of Daisy and the tension that surrounds her as she is reunited with her long-lost love Jay Gatsby. It evaluates how from the time that Daisy is reunited with Gatsby until she makes her decision to stay with her husband Tom, Fitzgerald makes continual references to heat to intensify the emotions and represent the building tension of the scenes.

From the Paper
"Once Nick and Gatsby arrive at the Buchanan household, talk of the heat is unrelenting. Numerous references are made about the heat by the characters, but it is Daisy who whines and complains about it. The other characters are not seen complaining about it. "It's so hot," insists Daisy, on the verge of tears. "And everything's so confused." (125) The fact that Daisy is the one complaining of the heat, while others are merely talking of it suggests that it is Daisy who is closest to the heat and therefore is the primary cause of it. The others are shown, although they are players in the situation, as being bystanders in the heat that surrounds her. The confusion she speaks of while complaining about the heat, suggests that her confusion is directly related to the heat."

Tags:daisy, fire, love, tom

Abstract
This paper looks at F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and focuses on how Gatsby's love for Daisy symbolizes the American Dream as hollow.

From the Paper
"F Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel "The Great Gatsby" is often considered one of the quintessential tales of lost love and social climbing. Indeed Jay Gatsby's quest to win the heart of his beloved Daisy Buchanan once again is fueled by the social advancements ..."

Tags:great gatsby, fitzgerald, american, dream, daisy

Abstract
This paper examines the various similarities that exist between Jay Gatsby and Scott F. Fitzgerald, which are their enchantment with the fantasy of the Jazz Age due to their similar childhoods, their drive for the love of a woman, Jay's Daisy and Scott's Zelda and their submission to the illusion of their dreams. Finally, the paper compares how both men have lavish and expensive lifestyles, in order to please their women and others around them, hence submitting to the illusion of their dreams.

From the Paper
"Jay Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald similarly become enchanted with the fantasy of the Jazz Age due to their similar childhoods, their drive for the love of a woman, and their submission to the illusion of their dreams. Both men are raised in rural areas and enlist in the army after leaving school. When they meet the women they love, they both alter their lives and make a success to prove their worth. Over several years, both Gatsby and Fitzgerald change their lifestyles and throw lavish parties to impress the women they love."

Tags:buchanan, corruption, daisy, dream, jazz, money, power

Abstract
The characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald?s "The Great Gatsby" are largely members of a falsely created American aristocracy. But some of the higher aspirations of this decadent elite for truth, beauty, and, more importantly, a secure sense of home and identity, mirror the far less decadent, but equally passionate desires of the members of the all-female book reading society found in "Reading Lolita in Tehran". This paper shows that Jay Gatsby desired to improve himself by "making himself up" to be worthy of the love of the faithless Daisy Buchanan. He did this through bootlegging, purchasing fine shirts, and securing a home in Great Neck, Long Island. The paper shows that, similarly, through a shift in attire and place, the women of Azar Nafisi's book wished to reinvent themselves by casting off their chadors and the external social and moral strictures that restricted them in their theocratic, Islamic educational framework.

From the Paper
"The girls revealed the hidden colors of concealed banned clothing, from under chadors, colorful as Gatsby's fine shirts that he showed to Daisy, concealed in his drawers. "Recovering himself in a minute, he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high". (Fitzgerald 91) Yet like these Iranian women, Jay Gatsby too has a hidden past and life, of his mundane Midwestern beginnings, as well as his criminal past. Gatsby keeps this boring past hidden life, filled with the shame of wealth he has not inherited, concealed under the colors of his shirts, while the women of Tehran keep their colorful plumage and reading a secret under cloaks of blackness that hide their faces and light. But like Gatsby, too, "it was not until I had reached home that I realized the true meaning of exile", writes Nafisi. (Nafisi 145)"

Tags:Daisy, Vladimir, Nabokov