you hear?' he cried. 'She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!' He wanted to repeat the past and have it exactly the way it was before he joined the army. She wasn't willing to risk her social status for the man she loved; concluding that she did not really love him. Near the end of the novel, the husband of the woman Daisy had killed murders Gatsby. Gatsby was denied Daisy's love and he thereafter paid for her actions. She walked away with her life and social status in tact and continued to live in luxury, paying no thought to the fact that the man she had "loved", was killed for an action that she herself had committed. Throughout the novel, the character of Gatsby portrayed the succession of love, to lust, to obsession. By showing this succession, he differentiated between the three, deducting that they all were different things. If love is only a will to possess, it is not love....
