Body 1 Ideal love breaking social conventions Elizabeth Barrett Browning follows ideal love breaking social conventions of the Victorian age, when she wrote the “Sonnets from the Portuguese”. The Victorian age produced a conservative society, where marriage was based on class, age and wealth and women were seen as objects of desire governed by social etiquette. It has been shown that these social conventions hold her back, this is conveyed through the quote "Drew me back by the hair". Social conventions symbolically represented by the character who “pulled it back”, this personification highlights the negative effect society has on the individual. Yet Barrett Browning has shown resistance to these social conventions. The Jazz Age was a period following World War I, in which there was a greater emphasis on materialistic desires due to the economic boom resulting from the war. “The Great Gatsby” is a novel about Nick's point of view on the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. This relationship, however, initially fails to prosper, as demonstrated by the simile "let me leave it in the soap dish when I saw it was falling apart like snow". The letter symbolizes the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy which at first seems pure and innocent but as obstacles such as materialistic society feed on them the letter falls apart showing the fragility of ideal love. As Gatsby's amount of money increases, Daisy is again shown to fall in love, this is shown through the hyperbole of "It makes me sad because I've never seen such, such beautiful shirts." The irony of this quote highlights that the amount of money Gatsby had was the cause of their relationship not growing, however it is also shown that their relationship is over and no amount of money can help their relationship. This is reflected in the symbolism of the unattainable green light that symbolizes Daisy, as Gatsby attempts to reach and grasp this light. Gatsby's dream of ideal love is seen as false as the materialistic values ​​of the time get in the way unlike Barrett Browning who breaks social conventions to find it true