The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald is a novel that explains the conflicts between love, sin and death. It's a story of love and how love can quickly be lost or hidden beneath the surface. It reveals what people go through in this decade, as well as the decade of the novel. There are conflicts throughout the novel between lust, sin, and pure evil. It basically explains the way the human mind operates when the heart is completely and undeniably in love with another. The fact that the people in this novel went to extremes to get the person they loved, innocent people tragically ended up in a realm of violence, betrayal, and undeserved death. The Great Gatsby is a novel that takes the reader back to the time of the “jazz age”. Times were simpler but love was confusing. The most explicit sentence written by Cheever to Gatsby comes at the beginning of the story to alert the reader to the more subtle parallels with the novel that follows (Allen). Jay Gatsby had everything except the thing he wanted most, Daisy. She was the love of his life, and yet, unfortunately for him, she had already been married to Tom. This little situation, however, didn't seem to stop Gatsby. Throughout the novel, you can see how the love between Jay and Daisy grows. What started as a simple friendship has grown much stronger. Meanwhile, while they were rekindling their love, Tom had another secret love. He was seeing Myrtle Wilson, a woman who, also, was already married to George Wilson. This novel is about the circle of love relationships that bind this group of individuals together. Unfortunately, at the end of this novel, no one ends up living happily ever after. No one was truly satisfied with what they had. The way this group of friends interacted with each other... half the paper... and work." The Great Gatsby: The Limits of Wonder. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990. 11-15. Rpt. in Literary Criticism of twentieth century. Ed. Linda Pavlovski Vol. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literary Resources from Gale Web January 24, 2012. Phelps, Henry C. “Literary History/Unsolved Mystery. and the Hall-Mills murder case." ANQ 14.3 (2001): 33. Literary Resources from Gale. Web. January 26, 2012. Sutton, Brian. "Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." Explicator 59.1 (Fall 2000): 37- 39. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Linda Pavlovski Vol. 157. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literary Resources from Gale Web. 23 January 2012. Trask, David F. "A Note on Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. ." University Review 33.3 (March 1967): 197-202. Rpt. in Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. January 26. 2012.