“If only you could tell true love from false love like you can tell mushrooms from toadstools,” said Katherine Mansfield. True love and false love are something that many people cannot distinguish from at all. They think love is love but that's not really the truth. Love can be true or false and in the book The Great Gatsby the characters have a big problem knowing what is what. The theme of The Great Gatsby is that people might take advantage of the idea of ​​love rather than having a real feeling. Jay Gatsby is one of the characters who cannot distinguish between true or false love. Gatsby and Daisy were supposed to fall in love, but then Gatsby had to go to war and Daisy decided to move on. Daisy got married to Tom but Gatsby was still in love with Daisy. Since he was still in love with her, Gatsby had many dreams and ideas about how things should be. On page 92 it read: "He was filled with that idea for so long, he dreamed it to the end." Throughout the book, Gatsby says he is in love with her, but it is more like he is in love with the idea of ​​old Daisy. Gatsby's head is so immersed in the past that he does not 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 said: "He talked a lot about the past and I understood that he wanted to recover something, perhaps some idea of ​​himself, that had gone into loving Daisy." Gatsby just couldn't get over the idea of ​​Daisy 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 taking advantage of Daisy's idea of ​​love. For Gatsby, Daisy's idea of ​​love is everything. Ideas and dreams are what Gatsby lives by and isn't it... half a newspaper... afternoon, and carrying the bags. It was as if he had left Gatsby forever. He doesn't even care that she leaves with Tom and doesn't even say goodbye to Gatsby. It showed that she had never truly been in love with Gatsby himself, more than the rich and powerful man he was. Daisy leaving with Tom was a final indicator that she chose Tom over Gatsby. In the entire book, The Great Gatsby, not a single character could distinguish between true and false love. Yes, it would be nice if at least one character could distinguish poisonous mushrooms, as well as people can distinguish them. Figuring out true and false love for each other has to be one of the hardest things for Gatsby, Tom, Daisy, and even Myrtle to do. They all think they know what's what, but in reality they're all fools. Fools who all leave their lives full of false love. Works Cited The Great Gatsby