“If only we could tell true love from false love like we can tell mushrooms from toadstools,” said Katherine Mansfield. True love and fake love are something that many people can't tell the difference at all. They think love is love but that's not really the truth. Love can be real or fake, and in the book The Great Gatsby, the characters have big problems knowing what that is. The theme of Great Gatsby is that people can enjoy the idea of ​​love rather than having a real feeling. Jay Gatsby is one of the characters who cannot differentiate between true and false love. Gatsby and Daisy were supposed to be in love, but Gatsby had to go to war and Daisy decided to move on. Daisy married Tom but Gatsby was still in love with Daisy. As he was still in love with her, Gatsby had many dreams and ideas about how things should be. On page 92 it says: “He was full of this idea for so long, he dreamed of it until the end. » Throughout the book, Gatsby says he is in love with her, but it's more like he is in love with the idea of ​​old Daisy. Gatsby's head is so far in the past that he cannot see the new Daisy. He wants things to go back to the past and believes it is possible. In the book, on page 110, it is written: "He talked a lot about the past and I understood that he wanted to rediscover something, a certain idea of ​​himself perhaps, which had led him to love Daisy. » Gatsby just couldn't get over Daisy's idea that he was living in the past in his head. So Gatsby couldn't see that he was in love with the idea of ​​Daisy, not the real Daisy. He was just enjoying the idea of ​​Daisy's love. For Gatsby, the idea of ​​Daisy's love is paramount. Gatsby lives on ideas and dreams and it's not true...right in the middle of a newspaper...afternoon, and he took his baggage with them. It was like she was leaving Gatsby forever. She doesn't even care that she's leaving with Tom and doesn't even say goodbye to Gatsby. This showed that she was never truly in love with Gatsby himself, but rather the rich and powerful man he was. Daisy leaving with Tom was a final indicator that she had chosen Tom over Gatsby. Throughout the book The Great Gatsby, not even a single character could tell the difference between true and false love. Yes, it would be nice if at least one character could tell the difference, like people can tell mushrooms from toadstools. Determining each other's true and false love must be one of the hardest things for Gatsby, Tom, Daisy, and even Myrtle to do. They all think they know what's going on, but in reality, they're all fools. Fools who all leave their lives full of false love. Works Cited The Great Gatsby