However, Gatsby forces them to confront their feelings in the Plaza Hotel when he demands Daisy say she never loved Tom. Although she gets the words out, she immediately rescinds them—"I did love [Tom] once but I loved you too!"—after Tom questions her.
Daisy says she never loved Tom, but admits to having loved him once. “I never loved him,” she said, with perceptible reluctance” (Gatsby 139), and then Daisy says “Even alone I can't say I never loved Tom,” she admitted in a pitiful voice.
Why does Daisy have a tough time saying, as Gatsby wishes, that she never loved Tom? Because at one point she did love Tom, and Gatsby. She's also afraid that once she says she never loved Tom she will be Gatsby's permanently. Why is it important to Gatsby that Daisy say she never loved Tom, only him?
Even though she was still in love with Gatsby, Daisy most likely married Tom because she knew he could provide her with more material comforts.
Gatsby is an absolutist about Daisy: he wants her to say that she never loved Tom, to erase her emotional history with him (and with their daughter, probably!).
Daisy is unable to confront the reality of her part in Gatsby's passing due to her feelings of guilt and shame; as a result, she is prevented from attending the funeral of Gatsby. In addition, Daisy is still married to Tom, so she may be concerned about what the aftermath of her attendance at Gatsby's funeral will be.
Gatsby is only in love with Daisy because of her identity and what she represents. He is unable to forget the past where Daisy once saw him as a perfect man in her eyes and can't accept his new reality. Gatsby's want of wealth and power only proves that he only loves the idea of her and not actually her.
Answer: In the Great Gatsby, Daisy vowed to wait for Gatsby, but after the war, she was tired of waiting for him. So in 1919 she decided rather to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a powerful, upper class family who could give her the rich lifestyle that she always wanted.
“You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.” I've always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.” Nick addresses these words to Gatsby the last time he sees his neighbor alive, in Chapter 8.
This is at the very end of the novel. Of the late Gatsby, Tom says, “That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust in your eyes just like he did in Daisy's….” And that's why it matters that Nick is gay and in love with Gatsby: because Tom's assessment is spot-on, but Nick will never admit it.
Tom is restless and unhappy, and his wife, Daisy, is the primary victim of the side effects of Tom's emotions. Tom not only has a visible affair with a woman in town, but he is abusive to both his wife and his mistress.
Daisy isn't really talking about—or weeping over—the shirts from England. Her strong emotional reaction comes from the excitement of Gatsby having the proper wealth, and perhaps remorse over the complexity of the situation; he is finally a man she could marry, but she is already wed to Tom.
(Which, of course, is part of the point of the novel.) And perhaps Daisy realizes that Gatsby's love is as fake as his name. At the end, she's left with a man who thinks too much of her and a man who thinks too little of her. She chooses the latter, since she can't measure up to the former.
Myrtle believes that the only reason Tom will not divorce Daisy is because Daisy is Catholic. But we learn that Tom's feelings for Myrtle are far less intense than he has led her to believe and that social pressure prevents him from ever leaving Daisy, who comes from a similar upper-class background.
Eventually, Gatsby won Daisy's heart, and they made love before Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, but in 1919 she chose instead to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle and who had the support of her parents.
But Daisy can never be happy with Tom because when she married him, she objectified him into the things he gave her; the expectations of Tom that she constructs in her head are mostly made of the gifts she has received, rather than Tom's actual personality and morals.
“You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.” Nick addresses these words to Gatsby the last time he sees his neighbor alive, in Chapter 8. This moment nicely captures Nick's ambivalent feelings about Gatsby.
What does Nick Carraway symbolize? Nick symbolizes the outsider's perspective of the way things were in the 1920s. He is not as wealthy as the other characters in the novel and thus recognizes how morally corrupt they are.
This remark mirrors an inborn indefiniteness in Nick's viewpoint toward Gatsby, yet regardless of whether he is reproachful of Gatsby. Tom, Daisy, Jordan, they belong to the 'rotten crowd' because they are selfish, materialistic, and cruel. They do not have any spiritual values or compassion for themselves or others.
Gatsby is stationed at Camp Taylor in Louisville, where he meets Daisy Fay (he is 27, she is 18).
The first thing that attracted Gatsby was Daisy's wealth – her house in particular ('there was a ripe mystery about it'). This removes the idea that he was attracted to Daisy in herself. He was – and still is – attracted to the 'money' in her.
She thought Gatsby had died in the war. She didn't think Gatsby would wait for her. Deep down, she had always loved Tom. Tom has good social standing and was acceptable to her parents.
He clearly loves her with all his heart, moreover, he is obsessed with Daisy and unable to imagine his life without her in it. Daisy's real feelings remain confused and unclear. But if we think a bit more about it, we'll see the other side of Gatsby and Daisy relationship. He is obsessed with her, he idolizes her.
“Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now–isn't that enough? I can't help what's past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once–but I loved you too.”
Nick's relationship with Jordan in The Great Gatsby begins as infatuation on his part, moves into a romantic one, and ultimately falls apart when Nick sees flaws in Jordan that he cannot accept.