"His name was Jay Gatsby, and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years - even after I'd met him on Long Island I didn't realize it was the same man" (Fitzgerald 75).
Daisy had been in love with Gatsby before she married Tom. Gatsby was the last soldier Daisy had been in a relationship with because it was difficult to say good-bye to him when he went off to the war. After hearing Jordan's account of the relationship Gatsby had with Daisy, it makes sense as to why Gatsby disappeared when Nick tried to introduce him to Tom. Gatsby already knew who Tom was because he had married the woman Gatsby was in love with. When Jordan found Daisy drunk before her bridal dinner with the letter, she had "change' her mine" because it had occurred to her that she was still in love with Gatsby and no longer wanted to marry Tom (76). Daisy was so curious about who Jordan was referring to after Jordan had mentioned Gatsby's name because she probably still has feelings for him.
Katie-Yes, you are putting all the pieces together here in the puzzle of relationships between Daisy and Gatsby, Daisy and Tom, Tom and Gatsby...I wonder, if you step back, what you might think in terms of analysis of this mess of people's lives?
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