In the story The Great Gatsby, many of the characters seemed to express what seemed like love. I tend to disagree with this. Daisy, Tom, Gatsby, and Mertle all express fake love to their significant others, but didnt actually feel true love. Starting with Daisy, she married Tom because all that he had was money. She was so aristocratic that she wouldnt marry Gatsby while they were in love after the war. All that Daisy seemed to care about was having so comfortable of a life that I believe she forgot what love was until Gatsby showed up again.
But this isnt all true, Daisy was so mpressed by Gatsbys wealth that her greed once again took over her and she was almost prepared to leave Tom for Gatsby. Also, I dont think that she loved her daughter. Daisys daughter was just a little plaything for Daisys enjoyment. She never cared for her and she never really had a social interaction with her daughter. I dont think that Tom ever really loved Daisy or Mertle. Tom only loved Daisy because she was a pretty face and he thought that he deserved her. He didnt love Mertle at all. She was just a woman he was having an affair with.
Mertle didnt love Tom what so ever. She was just impressed by his money. Her husband was very poor and she wanted the good life. A life where all she had to do all day was to sit around and drink. She didnt care for her husband either. He was a hard working man that was barley getting by running his little gas station. All that she wanted was more, more, and more. Gatsby might have been the only character to understand love, besides George Wilson. Although Gatsbys interpretation of love was a little twisted. He didnt love Daisy for who she was when they met at Nicks, he loved her for who she used to be.
He just wanted things to be like they used to be between them. Whats ironic about the situation though is that this can never take place because Daisy now has a child and a husband to tend for and would have no time for Gatsby. George Wilson, I believe, was the only character in the book that really loved and understood their significant other. He worked hard to keep her happy and it just wasnt enough for her. All that Mertle cared about was money and how she could get her greedy hands on it. Nick never really was mentioned in the story with the theme of love in mind.
I elieve however that if he and Jordan would have gotten together that the relationship would have been really good. However, Jordan wouldnt have gotten into a relationship because Nick was poor and rich girls dont date poor boys. In conclusion, many of the characters in The Great Gatsby showed love, a twisted fake love. Most of them only cared for the money that others possessed, such as Mertle and Daisy. One of them only cared about how many women he could get, this was Tom. And others just got overlooked in the way that they loved another person in the story, such as Wilson and Gatsby.