Did Daisy love Tom in The Great Gatsby?

Here we finally get a glimpse at Daisy's real feelings—she loved Gatsby, but also Tom, and to her those were equal loves. She hasn't put that initial love with Gatsby on a pedestal the way Gatsby has.

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Did Daisy love Tom when she married him?

Daisy came from a wealthy family and married into another wealthy family, which means Daisy, despite not loving Tom after a few years, felt comfortable in this arrangement. Gatsby's love could not give Daisy the security and safety that she needed to leave her loveless marriage with Tom Buchanan.

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How does Daisy feel about Tom?

Answer: In The Great Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanan's relationship is based on wealth and material possessions, and lacks a passionate love that only offers them an empty, materialised version of happiness which imperfectly binds them together.

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Why does Daisy love Tom in The Great Gatsby?

Answer: In "The Great Gatsby," Daisy chooses Tom over Gatsby because Tom represents stability and security to her. Although she is in love with Gatsby, he is seen as a risky choice, and she ultimately decides to stay with Tom, who represents the status quo.

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Who does Daisy really love in The Great Gatsby?

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.

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Who does Daisy love more Tom or Gatsby?

Here we finally get a glimpse at Daisy's real feelings—she loved Gatsby, but also Tom, and to her those were equal loves. She hasn't put that initial love with Gatsby on a pedestal the way Gatsby has.

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Was Daisy in love with Gatsby before Tom?

Before marrying Tom, Daisy had a romantic relationship with Jay Gatsby. Her choice between Gatsby and Tom is one of the novel's central conflicts. Described by Fitzgerald as a "golden girl", she is the target of both Tom's callous domination and Gatsby's dehumanizing adoration.

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Does Daisy regret marrying Tom?

Daisy seems unhappy with her marriage to Tom from the outset of the novel. Even the night before their wedding, she got drunk and told Jordan to tell everyone she had changed her mind.

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Did Daisy marry Tom for his money?

' Jordan recounts to Nick the story of Daisy's wedding day, when Daisy got drunk and told Jordan that she did not want to marry Tom. Her decision to return the pearls ends up being purely symbolic, however, because she finally does wed Tom for his wealth and high social standing.

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Why does Tom let Daisy leave with Gatsby?

Why does Tom let Gatsby and Daisy drive home together? He realizes he can't stand in the way of their love. He has decided that they are not actually having an affair.

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Did Daisy finally tell Tom that she never loved him?

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. “It wouldn't be true” (Gatsby 140).

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What does Tom finally realize about Daisy?

At lunch, Tom realizes that Daisy and Gatsby are in love. Later, in a hotel in New York City, Gatsby forces Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him, and Tom reveals that Gatsby is a bootlegger.

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Why is Daisy not happy with Tom?

Daisy Buchanan is a superficial woman who worships wealth. She marries for money and her parents, also well off, approve of this marriage. But Tom Buchanan is not very warm and caring, and he is having an affair. Though she tries to put on a happy appearance, Daisy is unhappy.

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Why did Daisy cry over the shirts?

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.

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Why didn't Daisy attend Gatsby's funeral?

Daisy does not want to be seen attending Gatsby's funeral because she does care about her reputation, despite the fact that she has never loved Tom. As a result, she makes the decision to abstain out of concern that she will damage both her connection with Tom and her standing in the eyes of the general public.

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Why did Gatsby not marry Daisy?

He was getting started, and had many luxury items, but could not convince her to marry because his financial status was so shaky. Thus she married Tom, whose financial state was more secure, and Gatsby was reunited with her when his wealth was secure. But it was too late.

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Does Daisy divorce Tom?

By the end of the novel, after Daisy's murder of Myrtle as well as Gatsby's death, she and Tom are firmly back together, "conspiring" and "careless" once again, despite the deaths of their lovers.

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Did Tom hurt Daisy's finger?

Daisy's finger has been hurt by her physically powerful husband Tom, although she says it was an accident. The novel contains several other accidents, and numerous allusions to the role of accidental occurrences in human life.

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What was the only compliment Nick ever gave Gatsby?

“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.

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Does Tom cheat on Daisy in the book?

Tom's Backstory

Daisy's very much in love with him at first. But just after their South Seas honeymoon is over, he cheats on her with a maid at the Santa Barbara hotel they're staying at, beginning a pattern of infidelity that we see continued in the novel (4.143).

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Does Tom cheat on Daisy?

Tom Buchanan

Since the early days of his marriage to Daisy, Tom has had affairs with other women. Throughout the novel he commits adultery with Myrtle Wilson, a working-class woman married to a garage mechanic.

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What is ironic about Gatsby's funeral?

Gatsby's funeral is ironic because only three people attend, while enormous crowds attended his parties. Despite being a popular figure in the social scene, once Gatsby passes, neither Daisy, his business partner Henry Wolfsheim, nor any of his partygoers seem to remember him or care.

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Is Nick in love with Gatsby?

In that novel, Nick loves Gatsby, the erstwhile James Gatz of North Dakota, for his capacity to dream Jay Gatsby into being and for his willingness to risk it all for the love of a beautiful woman. In a queer reading of Gatsby, Nick doesn't just love Gatsby, he's in love with him.

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Why is The Great Gatsby so sad?

Gatsby's tragic flaw is his inability to wake up from his dream of the past and accept reality. His obsession with recapturing his past relationship with Daisy compels him to a life of crime and deceit. He becomes a bootlegger, does business with a gangster, and creates a false identity.

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Is Gatsby Autistic?

Autism is a spectrum, with two very different ends, and a very diverse range in between. Many people could fall within this spectrum without even being completely aware of it. One that shows many signs of mild autism through social behaviors is James Gatz, also known as Jay Gatsby, the titular character in F.

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