Unrequited Love

Unrequited Love is when you love someone and that someone doesn't love you the same way as you love them. Unrequited means not felt in response. When you love someone, you expect them to love you just as much as you love them. Love is like a drug and we get addicted to it. If we don't get love in return, we tend to get very sad. Love makes the world go around, and sometimes people do crazy things to show their love for another person.

Jay Gatsby and Daisy were crazy in love and spent so much time together. Then Gatsby went off to war & Daisy told him she would wait for him. Too much time went by and Daisy felt she couldn't let her self rely on Gatsby for the love that she longed for. Daisy tried to wait for Gatsby, but couldn't wait for him anymore. So Jordan hooked Daisy up with Tom and forced her to marry him. Daisy didn't want to marry Tom because Tom couldn't fully fill the void in her heart that Gatsby left. Tom cheated on Daisy after they got married & Daisy acts like she doesn't know, but she does. Tom's mistress Myrtle even thinks Tom will leave Daisy, but even though he cheated on Daisy, he doesn't love myrtle as much as she loves him or as much as he loves Daisy.

Gatsby waited for Daisy for 8 years. Gatsby pretty much stalked Daisy by clipping the Newspaper articles that mentioned Daisy and putting them into books. Both Daisy and Gatsby never stopped thinking about each other in those 8 years of separation. They both longed for that warm embrace of each other and when they came face-to-face at Nick's house, they were both speechless. Once they started talking, they both admitted they never stopped loving each other and spent so much time talking and hanging out together. Although Gatsby tried to fight for Daisy's love, he sadly failed and it led him to pain and suffrage.


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