Song Blog

Throughout the Great Gatsby, the mysterious Jay Gatsby does all he can to win the affections of Daisy Buchanan. He's always loved her from the time they met five years ago, but it's taken him a long time to tell Daisy this. The song that I thought fit this situation was No One's Gonna Love You by Band of Horses. The song basically sums up what Gatsby is feeling throughout the story. The line, "You are the ever-living ghost of what once was" accurately depicts how Gatsby is trying to recreate what he once had with Daisy all that time ago. I would say Gatsby probably loved Daisy more than her husband Tom did, and he was quite obsessed with her. One of the lyrics in the song is, "No one's ever gonna love you more than I do" and I would say that's a decent description of how Gatsby must have been feeling. I feel the song I chose accurately described the love triangle between Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom, and summed up Gatsby's feelings quite nicely.