Gatsby’s Devotion to Daisy

Gatsby’s fetish with Daisy starts when he first meets her as a teenager. Both of them fall madly in love with each other but due to ironic circumstances they can not be together and as a result, Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy grows. Years later, Gatsby would still do anything in his power to win Daisy’s love back

. Gatsby’s denial of the truth about his past shows him piteously doing anything to win Daisy back. Once a “penniless young man without a past” he transforms himself into a self-made millionaire and builds an extravagant mansion to show off to his obsession, figuring that that is all it takes to win her back. Even though Daisy is married and has a daughter, Gatsby “revalues everything in his house according to the amount of response it draws from her eyes.” The superficial way Gatsby goes about winning Daisy back is ludicrous because something with so little depth can not win him true love. Not only does Gatsby try to get Daisy with useless money, but he earns that money illegitimately, “He’s a bootlegger.”

Gatsby’s idea of love seems to

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