The Great Gatsby

Gatsby: pages 73-84

Jordan Baker tells us the history of Daisy and Jay Gatsby in this section of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.  Daisy sounds like she found her way around pretty easily when it came to male suitors.  While Gatsby was just one among many, I think he's the one who has affected and stuck with her the most!  You can't forget your first love...it's impossible, and I think Jay Gatsby was Daisy's first love.  But then the war took him away from her.  His letter to her almost made her not marry Tom!  I feel like Daisy went down the road of convenience rather than love when she went through with the wedding. 

I fear for Gatsby.  He "'bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay'" (Fitzgerald, 78).  He is clearly still madly in love with Daisy even after five years apart, but that could just set him up for disappointment.  He hasn't given up hope, and hope can be a dangerous thing when it comes to lost love.  Gatsby is desperate to the point where he's begging Carraway to have Daisy over to his house so that Gatsby can just "happen" to drop by.  How does he expect her to react five years, a marriage and a baby later??