In any case love is a very hard concept to comprehend, and it can be very difficult to obtain. Sometimes the life long struggle for love, ends in tragedy, and leaves people even lonelier then when they started. This struggle can often lead to an incomplete ending in some novels. Two novels which have a focus around a search for love, and incomplete endings due to love, are: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neal Hurston. In both books, there is a struggle for love. Both characters that are looking for love make great sacrifices for this love, and even have to change some aspect of their lives, or even themselves for this love.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is at first very impressed the money and material things. Her first husband owns a 60-acre farm, which seems great to her at first, until her husband wants her to work on the farm. Money is what draws her to her second husband. He tells her of his great wealth, and his plan to go run the new city. He becomes mayor of the city, and owns 200 acres. He builds her a huge beautiful house. But she again isn't happy. This time her husband forces her to hide her beautiful hair. He doesn't want the rest or the men staring at it. He will never let her speak. When he and his friends are outside of the store talking with each other he forbids her to talk with them. And when she does speak, he gets furious.

TeaCake also risks himself, and makes great sacrifices for Janie. When they are fleeing from the hurricane, and Janie gets swept away in the water, he goes after her to save her from the dog in the water. He winds up getting rabies when the dog bites him, while he is saving Janie. This leads to the greatest sacrifice Janie has ever made. TeaCake is now rabid, and Janie has to shoot him. She has tried all she could to help him. She was willing to spend as much money as needed on doctors to try and help him, but it was too late. She does everything possible to help him. Then she has to kill him. She has to kill the only man she ever truly loved. And she has to kill him because he sacrificed himself for her. Her life long struggle to find love and happiness has to end in this tragic way. And because of the way that it ended she is more sad and lonely then when she started. Her struggle to find love has now left her empty and alone.

Gatsby's lifelong struggle also ends in failure. Daisy admits that she does love her husband. Which basically crushes Gatsby. He realizes they will never be able to be together. Gatsby ends up dying because of his sacrifices for Daisy. Myrtle Wilson's husband shoots Gatsby because he believes that Gatsby killed his wife. If Gatsby hadn't let Daisy drive, or if he had confessed to what actually h

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