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- "I married him because I thought he was a gentleman," she said finally. "I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe….The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake.” (2.112-116)
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The meeting between Nick and Jordan in Chapter 4 is part of a longer-term plan that Gatsby initiated before Daisy moved to East Egg. According to Jordan, Gatsby has kept tabs on Daisy for years and followed her when she and Tom moved from Chicago to the east coast.
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Tom and Daisy Buchanan were married in 1919, three years before the start of the novel. They both come from incredibly wealthy families, and live on fashionable East Egg, marking them as members of the "old money" class.
Tom and Daisy Buchanan live in East Egg, the fashionable and extravagant neighborhood of "old money" on Long Island. Both grew up in Louisville among the elite of society there.
Tom stops at the scene afterward, finds out Gatsby's yellow car hit Myrtle, assumes it was Gatsby, and sobs on the drive back to East Egg. In Chapter 8 , in the aftermath of Myrtle's murder, Tom and Daisy remain together and quickly leave New York, George Wilson shoots Gatsby and then himself, leaving Nick to grapple with Gatsby's death alone.
In The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan reacts to his wife Daisy's infidelity with anger and a sense of entitlement, seeking to reassert his dominance. In contrast, George...
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Daisy Buchanan is a beautiful, socially popular young woman who has lived a privileged life and is one of the main characters in the novel. She’s married to Tom, a wealthy although loveless man. The two live in East Egg together. Daisy is Gatsby’s love interest.
