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point 1 - TGG: love shapes n consumes lives but is ultimately unfulfilled
Gatsby’s love for Daisy dominates his life, but it remains unattainable, showing how love, though deeply felt, may not lead to fulfilment
point 1 quotation - TGG: Gatsby’s delusional belief = idealisation of the past
“Can’t repeat the past?… Why of course you can!”
point 1 quotation - TGG: unreachable love
“He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way… I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light.”
point 1 quotation - TGG: Gatsby loves Daisy as a person and as a symbol of wealth n status
“Her voice is full of money.”
point 1 quotation - TGG: Daisy prioritises practicality over passion
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.”
point 1 AO3 - TGG: 1920s = consumerism n American Dream
1920s America was marked by consumerism and the American Dream, affecting perceptions of love = Daisy constraint - marriage n wealth, Gatsby - social class
point 1 AO4 - TGG: compare to At An Inn » intense emotions unable to be realised
Both texts explore circumstances preventing love from flourishing, but Hardy’s poem focuses on external societal pressures, whereas Fitzgerald emphasises personal idealism and self-delusion
point 1 AO5 - TGG: psychoanalytic criticism: Gatsby’s idealisation
Gatsby’s obsession is a form of emotional immaturity, where he loves an idealised version of Daisy, not the real person
point 2 - At An Inn: love is strong but unfulfilled
Hardy explores how love exists between individuals but cannot materialise due to external circumstances
point 2 quotation - At An Inn: love is present but inaccessible
“Yet never the love-light shone / Between us there!”
point 2 quotation - At An Inn: geographical n societal forces keeping them apart
“O severing sea and land, / O laws of men”
point 2 quotation - At An Inn: shattered illusion of love
“And we were left alone / As Love’s own pair”
point 2 quotation - At An Inn: love fades when not allowed to take root
“And blooms not ours”
point 2 AO3 - At An Inn: restrictive Victorian norms
Victorian social norms often prevented love outside of marriage, reflecting similar restrictions in Gatsby’s world
point 2 AO4 - At An Inn: compare to TGG » intense, impossible love
Both texts present love as intense yet ultimately impossible.
Gatsby and Hardy’s speaker are both romantics longing for an unattainable past
point 2 AO5 - At An Inn: lamentation, according to critics
Critics argue Hardy’s poem is a lamentation on missed opportunities in love.
Tragic realism vs Gatsby’s romantic idealism—Hardy accepts fate, whereas Gatsby fights against time
point 3 - TGG: love becomes an isolating obsession
Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy alienates him from reality and others
point 3 quotation - TGG: Gatsby’s futile attempts at rewriting past
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
point 3 quotation - TGG: Gatsby’s desperate plan, summarised
“He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths.”
point 3 quotation - TGG: Gatsby’s idealised optimism of Daisy’s love
“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’”
point 3 quotation - TGG: Nick’s defiant trust in Gatsby
“They’re a rotten crowd… You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
point 3 AO3 - TGG: rife materialism » Decadent Movement
Materialism in love—Gatsby builds his identity around Daisy, showing love’s power to consume
point 3 AO4 - TGG: compare to Non Sum Qualis » inescapable force of love
Both texts explore love as an inescapable force
point 3 AO5 - modernist criticism: nostalgia
Gatsby is a victim of nostalgia, similar to Dowson’s speaker
point 4 - Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae » love as an inescapable obsession
Dowson’s speaker is haunted by a lost love, just like Gatsby
point 4 quotation - NSQ: persona’s “faithfulness”
“I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.”
point 4 quotation - NSQ: haunted love = insanity/numbing inclination
“I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.”
point 4 quotation - NSQ: physically present haunting
“All night upon mine heart I felt her warm heart beat.”
point 4 quotation - NSQ: lost love = desolation
“I was desolate and sick of an old passion.”
point 4 AO3 - NSQ: Dowson’s involvement Decadent movement
Dowson was part of the Decadent movement, where love and excess intertwined
point 4 AO4 - NSQ: compare to TGG: past love effect
Both Gatsby and Dowson’s speaker are enslaved by past love
point 4 AO5 - NSQ: critics’ blame on Dowson
Critics argue Dowson romanticises suffering in love, just as Fitzgerald does with Gatsby’s fate
