Love is what everyone needs. I believe that everyone should be loved by everybody. That should be the case for the Great Gatsby, but I don’t think so. The book revolves around two loveless marriages: Tom and Daisy Buchanan and between George and Myrtle Wilson. Both of the marriages were up and downs and there were problems for both parties.

Daisy left Tom at the wedding day because she said she wasn’t ready to marry him and Tom confessed that he had an affair with an unknown women at the time of the wedding. Even though they both made mistakes, they both tried their best to work it out and it seemed to work because they were in the same class and had a lot in common with each other.

I could connect this because in my sophomore year, I had recently talk to a girl and after a while we decided that we would give it a shot of taking it to the next level. We were on and off for a couple months straight but eventually we would work out for a couple more months due to the time we took off. Even though we ended on good terms, I realized that I was lukewarm and emotionally distant with her, just like how in the book Nick was with Jordan Baker.

The marriages in the novel seem to be unions of convenience or advantage than actual love. As Nick says, “tender curiosity”, may be the closest thing to love in the entire novel. In my opinion, I really loved this book and it has a lot to offer, all though a very tragic ending, it is still very interesting to read if your into love genres.