Jay's Obsession in The Great GatsbyThere is a fine line between love and lust. If love is only a desire to possess, it is not love. To love someone is to hold them dear to your heart. In The Great Gatsby, the characters Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan are said to be in love, but in reality this seems to be a misconception. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald addresses the themes of love, lust and obsession, through the character Jay Gatsby, who confuses lust and obsession with love. Jay Gatsby's character was a wealthy businessman, who the author developed as arrogant and vapid. . Gatsby's love interest, Daisy Buchanan, was a low-key socialite who was married to Tom Buchanan, a dimwit. She is the perfect example of how women of her social standing were supposed to act in her time. The circumstances surrounding Gatsby and Daisy's relationship separated them forever. Daisy would have been forbidden to be with Gatsby because she was married. The very concept of their forbidden love also made it all the more intense, because the idea of ​​having a forbidden love, like William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, made it all the more desirable. Gatsby remembered the time when Daisy was unmarried and they were together five years ago: His heart began to beat faster as Daisy's white face came closer to his. He knew that when he kissed this girl and forever associated her unspeakable visions with her perishing breath, his spirit would never again frolic like God's. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had just struck a star. Then he kissed her. Upon contact with his lips, she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. His memory of her is sweet and beautiful, so that even without saying it, it is obvious that he was, and perhaps still is, in love with her. He remembered the past and convinced himself that it could be like that again. He became delirious with love and was blinded by it. Because Daisy was married, it was impossible for her and Gatsby to be together, but that didn't stop them from secretly flirting and quietly exchanging affection...