We know the differences between love and obsession. Love is a feeling of affection to something; an emotional and/or sexual attraction to someone. Love is pure and can be happy but obsession is different. Obsession is a thought of someone or something that keeps occurring in one's mind over and over again. It’s a compulsion that can form an unreasonable idea or emotion. Having an obsession with someone can lead you to objectify them. Seeing someone as an object that one wants rather than a human being that is alive and has their own life. Relationships should be based on love but one is based on an obsession and the objectification of both partners. This relationship between Daisy and Gatsby is the definition of obsession and objectification because Gatsby only wants her so he can complete his perfect life. Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy led him to create her as the green light, which was found at the end of her dock.
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The green light was something he looked out upon again and again to picture Daisy and make it Daisy. Since Daisy became the green light to him, when he has her in his arms it didn’t feel truly full to him. He seemed to want more than Daisy had. Nick states from his observations, “Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever”(V.93). Gatsby’s realization of Daisy and she didn’t fully reach his expectations, the green light, shined through his words. He knew that she didn’t fit everything he wanted, yet he still wanted her more than any other girl. His obsession with her caused him to go blind to himself and his feelings for Daisy. He could have loved her or thought he loved her since she was so important and amazing to him. Connecting the two parts of his obsession with Daisy, Gatsby’s obsession went so far that he was willing to break Daisy’s marriage even before he knew that Tom was already cheating. He wanted her so badly to be part of his perfect life, he wanted to hurt something that could have been perfect. Along with harming a relationship, he never Daisy a say in the affair. He would constantly tell her what she had to do and say to Tom, not letting her say one word. Those two facts go hand in hand to connect to Gatsby’s obsession. Gatsby’s states, “You never loved him”(VII.132). He seemingly thinks he is Daisy’s mind and that she needs to listen to him because he is the one that is right. He is trying to take control of her emotions. Daisy soon says after, “Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom…..It wouldn’t be true”(VII.133). She stands up for herself against Gatsby. She, finally, spoke up for herself to show that she can speak and that she has a say in this relationship no matter what Gatsby believes to be true. Going back when Gatsby and Daisy are with each other and the silk shirts, Daisy starts to objectify Gatsby in a slight but big manner. She cries due to the realization she could have had all that if she would have just waited for Gatsby to come home from the war. She lies about why she is crying with saying that it’s because she has never seen
The green light was something he looked out upon again and again to picture Daisy and make it Daisy. Since Daisy became the green light to him, when he has her in his arms it didn’t feel truly full to him. He seemed to want more than Daisy had. Nick states from his observations, “Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever”(V.93). Gatsby’s realization of Daisy and she didn’t fully reach his expectations, the green light, shined through his words. He knew that she didn’t fit everything he wanted, yet he still wanted her more than any other girl. His obsession with her caused him to go blind to himself and his feelings for Daisy. He could have loved her or thought he loved her since she was so important and amazing to him. Connecting the two parts of his obsession with Daisy, Gatsby’s obsession went so far that he was willing to break Daisy’s marriage even before he knew that Tom was already cheating. He wanted her so badly to be part of his perfect life, he wanted to hurt something that could have been perfect. Along with harming a relationship, he never Daisy a say in the affair. He would constantly tell her what she had to do and say to Tom, not letting her say one word. Those two facts go hand in hand to connect to Gatsby’s obsession. Gatsby’s states, “You never loved him”(VII.132). He seemingly thinks he is Daisy’s mind and that she needs to listen to him because he is the one that is right. He is trying to take control of her emotions. Daisy soon says after, “Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom…..It wouldn’t be true”(VII.133). She stands up for herself against Gatsby. She, finally, spoke up for herself to show that she can speak and that she has a say in this relationship no matter what Gatsby believes to be true. Going back when Gatsby and Daisy are with each other and the silk shirts, Daisy starts to objectify Gatsby in a slight but big manner. She cries due to the realization she could have had all that if she would have just waited for Gatsby to come home from the war. She lies about why she is crying with saying that it’s because she has never seen