Love demands Sacrifice:

True love is a choice that demands sacrifice. People who fall in and out of love have not made a
choice that demands sacrifice, or at least one of them is not. The choice of love demands that we
accept limitations on our lives and even pain and suffering in order to love. Parents respond to
their baby’s cries in the middle of the night. They have no choice if they really love their child.
But that choice takes sacrifice . This is the meaning of true love. Millions of little routine daily
sacrifices make the greatest life there ever was a reality in our world.

When we truly love another, we are willing to give anything to ensure that our loved one is
safe. This love is pure and emits itself from the deepest reaches of the soul. This love is
unconditional and is not a mere emotion, but a force of nature. It is a phenomenon of the human
spirit that is unparalleled. It is a mother lifting a car to save her child. It is a husband who jumps
infront of a bullet to shield his wife from harm. It is the parents who work overtime to feed their
children. It is the young girl who stands infront of the bully who threatened her siblings.

There is no love without surrender. There is no love without understanding. There is no love
without pain. There is no love without giving. There is no love without listening. There is no
love without caring. There is no love without the willingness and ability to sacrifice all these
things and more. Love without sacrifice is like an ocean without water.

People often say that great love, like great achievements, requires sacrifice.

In The Great Gatsby, love is intrinsically tied to class. A young military officer, Gatsby fell
quickly for debutante Daisy, who promised to wait for him after the war. Instead of waiting
Gatsby Daisy married Tom Buchanan, It is an unhappy marriage of convenience, Tom has affairs
and seems just as romantically uninterested in Daisy as she is in him.

In general, the novel takes fairly cynical view of love. Even the central romance between Daisy
and Gatsby is less a true love story and more a depiction of Gatsby’s obsessive desire of relive-
or even redo –his own past. He loves the image of Daisy more than the woman infront of him.
Romantic love is not a powerful force in the world of The Great Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby, by F.Scott Fitzgerald, presents a critical portrait of the American dream
through its portrayal of the 1920s New York elite. By exploring themes of wealth, class, love and
idealism. The Great Gatsby raises powerful questions about American ideas and society.

Sacrifice, the concept of giving up something valuable as a means of more desirable things or
preventing evil, is a fascinating art that has long intrigued human kind. The individual, in an
attempt to give happiness and fulfillment, will strive for the values that society imposes. They
adopt the social ideals and then make sacrifices in order to achieve them.
In the world of Jay Gatsby, ideals and values are defined by their society. Gatsby sense of ideal
is no more or less than which his society can offer him. Everything about Jay Gatsby is based on
what James Gats believes that society would find attractive as he does not enjoy his own wild
parties, which shows that he does this for the sake of a socially accepted image rather than
personal taste, that he is the advertisement of a man not the actual man himself.

The choices that an individual makes reflect the relationship between him or her and their
society. How the individual perceives the nature of their society is displayed in their choice of
sacrifice.

Gatsby expects a lot from Daisy as in the novel

‘He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say I never loved you’

“Your wife doesn’t love you” said Gatsby “she’s never loved you she loves me”

He turns himself into wealthy Jay Gatsby, a platonic conception of himself and in fabricating his
personal history and constructing an ideal image, Gatsby loses his real self. While his dream is
pure and redeemable, he bases it on social superficial values and materialism which means that
when the dream is destroyed and he fails to attain Daisy, he is already spiritually dead for all his
superficiality becomes insignificant and pointless. The relationship between an individual and
society is an important determent in the extent of sacrifices they make.

In the end, it is the relationship between the individual and his or her society which is ultimately
responsible for the sacrifices he or she makes. Separately, the society and individual make up
only two influences , and are not the actual causes of the sacrifice, the society defines values and
dreams, of which the individual has the choice to try and strive for.