o how to deal with this situation. She began to see Gatsby on the side; however, she never seriously thought about actually leaving Tom for Gatsby. It was Jordan who told Nick that on the very night before Tom and Daisy's marriage, Daisy drunkenly wept in the tub because she knew that she would not marry Gatsby. And five years later, in the Plaza Hotel, Daisy confessed that she loved Gatsby, but that she had loved Tom at the time of their wedding. "Even alone I can't say that I never loved Tom" (140). She needed to express that she had loved Tom so that she had even the least bit of hope that he wouldn't leave her for someone else. Truth be known, Daisy was using Tom as a support barrier, so she'd never feel as alone and as abandoned as she did when Gatsby left her to fight in the war.Throughout the whole story marriage is never taken seriously. Catherine Jordan, Daisy’s friend, said that Tom and Daisy could not stand each other. Gatsby accepts the fact that marriages rarely represent true love, and does not hesitate to tell his love to Daisy right in front of Tom. Myrtle's love for Tom was doomed to failure due to her lower social standing. This large social gap appears when Tom "had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world" (130). The couple is never meant to be. Gatsby had experienced this exact situation with Daisy when he was in the army. One of the central themes shown here is that money and social standing is why people do or do not get married. On one side of the coin you have the rich that cannot be involved with the poor, and the poor who want to be involved with the rich. Obviously the lack of true love, principles, and morals is why none of these people are truly happy.Tom Buchanan is not the only wealthy man in a position of power that's using the people around him to climb the social ladder. Nick, who lived next door to Gatsby, was used by Jay to get him closer to Dai...
