Distorted Love in The Great Gatsby In the story The Great Gatsby, many of the characters seemed to express what looked like love. I tend to disagree with this. Daisy, Tom, Gatsby, and Mertle all express false love for their loved ones, but do not actually feel true love. Starting with Daisy, she married Tom because all she had was money. She was so aristocratic that she would not marry Gatsby while they were in love after the war. All Daisy seemed to care about was having such a comfortable life that I think she forgot what love was until Gatsby showed up again. But this is not all true, Daisy was so impressed by Gatsby's wealth that her greed took over again and she was almost ready to leave Tom for Gatsby. I also don't think he loved his daughter. Daisy's daughter was just a little toy for Daisy's amusement. She never took care of her and never had any social interaction with her daughter. I don't think Tom ever truly loved Daisy or Mertle. Tom only loved Daisy because she had a pretty face and he thought he deserved her. He didn't like Mertleat at all. She was simply a woman he was having an affair with. Mertle didn't love Tom at all. She was simply impressed with his money. Her husband was very poor and she wanted to live the good life. A life where all he had to do all day was sit and drink. She didn't care about her husband either. He was a hard-working man who earned his barley by running his own small gas station. All he wanted was more and more and more. Gatsby may have been the only character to understand love, other than George Wilson. Even if Gatsby's interpretation of love was a little twisted. He didn't love Daisy for who she was when they met at Nick's, he loved her for who she was. He just wanted things between them to go back to the way they were. The ironic thing about this situation, however, is that this can never happen because Daisy now has a child and a husband to take care of and would have no time for Gatsby. George Wilson, I think, was the only character in the book that he really loved and