Twisted Love in The Great Gatsby In the story The Great Gatsby, many characters seemed to express what looked like love. I tend to disagree with this. Daisy, Tom, Gatsby, and Mertle all expressed false love to those close to them, but did not actually feel true love. Starting with Daisy, she married Tom because all he had was money. She was so aristocratic that she didn't want to marry Gatsby even though they were lovers after the war. All Daisy seemed to care about was having a life so comfortable that I think she forgot what love was until Gatsby showed up again. But that's not entirely true, Daisy was so impressed by Gatsby's wealth that her greed took over her again and she was almost ready to leave Tom for Gatsby. Besides, I don't think she loved her daughter. Daisy's daughter was just a little toy for Daisy's pleasure. She never cared about her and she never really had any social interaction with her daughter. I don't think Tom ever really liked Daisy or Mertle. Tom only liked Daisy because she was pretty and he thought he deserved her. He didn't like Mertle at all. She was just a woman he was having an affair with. Mertle didn't like Tom at all. She was just impressed with her money. Her husband was very poor and she wanted a good life. A life where all she had to do all day was sit around and drink. She didn't care about her husband either. He was a hardworking man who earned barley running his small gas station. All she wanted was always more, always more. Gatsby might have been the only character to understand love, other than George Wilson. Although Gatsby's interpretation of love is a bit 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 to be the same between them. The ironic thing about this situation is that this could 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 believe, was the only character in the book who truly loved and