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The Great Gatsby Love Or Obsession' Love or Obsession' Is it love or an obsession that Jay Gatsby has for Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby' Gatsby’s love for Daisy may have been genuine in the beginning, but it evolves into an overwhelming desire for established wealth and status. Gatsby is a man determined to make something of his life in high society so that he could win back the woman that he lost. Yet when Gatsby says that Daisy's voice is "full of money," he reveals a deeper agenda (Fitzgerald 127). Daisy becomes more than the woman he was in love with--she becomes the incarnation of everything he longed to have in his life: respectability, wealth, status and privilege. Jay Gatsby was born James Gatz in North Dakota, the son of "shiftless and unsuccessful farm people" (104). With his dreams of wealth and prestige, he wanted to forget about where he came from, "[s]o he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” (104). The fantasy life that he creates for himself is gatsby, daisy, jay, life, love, wealth, people, money, buchanan, respect, light, husband, back, world, win, status, one, obsession, never, longed, green, year, woman, wealthy, wanted, tomorrow, society, prestige, out, man, make, lives, live, leave, just