Many literary works have love as a theme. As you read different novels, you get a glimpse of all the different types of love and their purposes. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston represents love as the sea. Reading this novel, the reader comes to the conclusion that our ability to love deviates with each person we meet. Love is in a sense an art and it transforms as people transform. Janie Crawford, perhaps one of the greatest philosophers of love and protagonist, says: “Love is not something like a grindstone that is the same thing everywhere and does the same thing to everything it touches. Love is a sea lake. It is a touching thing, but for all that, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and is different with each shore” (Hurston 191). Janie Crawford's dream of true love comes together with understanding and equality between lovers. This advice should be shared among nations. Sometimes people “love” for the wrong reasons and need to understand, like Janie, the definition of true love. When Janie finds true love after searching for it for so long, she finally feels like she has lived a full and fulfilling life. Love, however, is not so merciful towards others. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, teaches that money cannot buy love. Jay Gatsby is trapped in this absolutely obsessive kind of love that leaves him unable to do virtually anything except think about Daisy non-stop. No money or material goods will attract her, but that certainly doesn't stop Gatsby from trying to win her over. The narrator, Nick Carraway, reveals to the reader that Gatsby “had never stopped looking at Daisy, and I think he re-evaluated everything in his house by the measure of the response he drew from him… in the middle of the paper. .....the time. It takes special people to defend what is right and what pleases the Lord. Works Cited Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics. 2004. Print.Dickens, Charles. Great expectations. London: Chapman & Hall. 1861. Print.---. A tale of two cities. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics. 2004. Print.Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Sons of Charles Scribner. 1925. Print.Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes looked upon God. New York: JB Lippincott, Inc. 1937. Print. Lee, Harper. To kill a thrush. New York: Warner Books. 1988. Print.Orczy, Baroness. The scarlet primrose. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics. 2005. Print.Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics. 2003. Print.Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co. 1884. Print.