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Briana Oviedo

Professor Schenk

Library 100

01 December 2018

The Great Gatsby: Love, Desire, and Relationships: An Annotated Bibliography

Li, Na. "A comparative study between A Tale of Two Cities and The Great Gatsby--the

self-sacrifice spirits in romanticism."​ Theory and Practice in Language Studies​, vol. 4,

no. 1, 2014, p. 116.​ Literature Resource Center,​

http://link.galegroup.com.cerritoscoll.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/A358631234/GLS?u=cerrito

s&sid=GLS&xid=d1dcdf8d. Accessed 2 Dec. 2018.

This critical essay is about how the book, ​The Great Gatsby ​characters in the story are

blind to one another's feelings by illusion of money that it buys them everything

especially love and happiness in their life’s . Li points out that Gatsby is blind believing

that money will buy back the love of Daisy from her husband Tom. Another character in

the book, Myrtle, who is Tom’s mistress is love driven by Tom’s wealth. Something that

her husband Wilson doesn’t have. At the end, Li concludes that with the deaths of both

Gatsby and Myrtle, their lovers get to live and enjoy their of money and wealth.

Ward, Jesmyn. "The Doomed Dreamer." ​The New York Times Book Review​, 22 Apr. 2018, p.

10(L). ​Literature Resource Center,​

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http://link.galegroup.com.cerritoscoll.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/A535687920/GLS?u=cerrito

s&sid=GLS&xid=e68253e1. Accessed 3 Dec. 2018.

From the ​New York Times, ​ Ward explains that Gatsby's love for Daisy blinded himself

by limiting his American Dream of pursuing the wealthy and lavish life of a rich man by

thinking the only way his dream would succeed is as long as he has Daisy by his side. He

doesn’t realizes that when he finally meets Daisy that she has changed. She’s not the

same person Gatsby has met a while back due to the occurrences in her life such as

getting married to Tom and becoming a mother. According to Ward, she believes that

Gatsby was always doomed from the start since he was born in low class believing that at

the end that he’ll die as low class.

Meehan, Adam. “Repetition, Race, and Desire in The Great Gatsby.” ​Journal of Modern

Literature​, vol. 37, no. 2, Winter 2014, pp. 76–91.​ EBSCOhost​,

doi:10.2979/jmodelite.37.2.76.

Meehan’s article explains how Gatsby in the novel wants to repeat the past with Daisy

since he has this undying love for her when he met her. Meehan claims that, “ We can

never actually ‘obtain’ the object of desire, but can only circle around it in a never-ending

repetition” (85). That means that Gatsby’s desire for Daisy is unreachable; that he can

never have her since she’s married and has a child with her husband Tom in the novel.

Meehan points when he cites what Nick says in the novel describing Gatsby’s reaction

when he finally meets Daisy. Gatsby realizes that his desire to have her isn’t there

anymore since it’s already too late.

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Kehl, D. G. “Writing the Long Desire: The Function of Sehnsucht in The Great Gatsby and Look

Homeward, Angel.” ​Journal of Modern Literature​, vol. 24, no. 2, Winter2000/2001

2000, p. 309. ​EBSCOhost,​

cerritoscoll.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&d

b=a9h&AN=6673597&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

This literary criticism is about how ​The Great Gatsby ​and some other novel is under the

function of “Sehnsucht” ‘which is the meaning of intense addiction of and to

​ atsby in the novel has a longing desire for Daisy.

longing’(309). In ​The Great Gatsby, G

When he means by Daisy, he means to wanting to repeat the past along with Daisy from

the past as this literary criticism quotes from Gatsby when he says to Nick that it is

possible to repeat the past.

Marshall, Donald G. "Great Gatsby, The." ​World Book Advanced​, World Book, 2018,

www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar752871. Accessed 3 Dec. 2018.

Marshall gives us the description of what the novel is about and the history behind the

​ as first published, it wasn’t praised and was very

novel. When ​The Great Gatsby, w

disliked but soon became worshiped by scholars of how it accurately depicts the 1920s.

In the encyclopedia article, it states that, “The jealous Tom Buchanan tells Myrtle's

husband that Gatsby was the driver, and the husband shoots Gatsby and then himself”(3).

Tom’s desire to gain back his wife Daisy’s attention and to also avenge the death of his

mistress Myrtle due to the fact that it was indeed Gatsby’s car that killed Myrtle but later

in the novel that it was Daisy who killed Myrtle with Gatsby’s car. So Tom technically

lies to Wilson and frames Gatsby of the man Myrtle was having an affair with. His
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actions of desire of wanting Gatsby out of the picture led to deaths of him, Wilson, and

even Myrtle.