What quotes show Daisy's love for Tom in The Great Gatsby?

Daisy rarely expresses her love for Tom throughout the novel, and the two characters have a tumultuous relationship. Daisy reluctantly married Tom because it was convenient and he came from an affluent family. She truly loved Jay Gatsby at the time of her marriage but was unable to be with him because he was overseas fighting in WWI. Tom Buchanan is portrayed as an immoral man, who takes Daisy for granted and continually cheats on her. She is well aware that her husband has affairs and openly comments on them. Despite their troubled relationship, Daisy admits to loving Tom at least for a period of time in chapter 7. When Jay Gatsby attempts to make Daisy admit that she was never in love with Tom, Daisy says,

"I did love him once but I loved you too." (Fitzgerald, 73)

While Daisy does not elaborate on her love for Tom, she does display that she is content being in a relationship with him. After the heated argument in the city, Gatsby waits outside of Tom's home. When Nick looks into the window, he sees Daisy and Tom sitting across from each other with a look of content on their faces. Essentially, Daisy feels safe with Tom because she values money and security over true love.

Daisy says that she loves Tom when it matters most to her future with Gastby.

At the very crux of her crisis, Daisy is put upon to declare who she loves. Gatsby demands that she say that she never loved Tom. 

“Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now—isn't that enough? I can't help what's past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once—but I loved you too.”

Gastby's plan is to begin anew. To meet this end, he feels that the past must be wiped clean, obliterated; made to have never been. This is, of course, impossible. The impossibility is not merely scientific, however. Daisy cannot bring herself to declare that her marriage to Tom was meaningless. She cannot claim that there was no honesty in it, ever, and that it was a sham or a false show. 

For Daisy, the marriage has to have had some integrity, even if she was unhappy and Tom was unfaithful. Denying this, she will be undoing a significant part of her life. 

Failing this denial is unacceptable to Gatsby. He needs to hear Daisy say that she never loved Tom. When she says that she loves them both, she effectively begins the destruction of Gastby's dream.

After this point, Tom seizes the advantage, the party breaks up, Daisy runs over Myrtle and the novel's main action comes to an end.

In The Great Gatsby, how does Daisy's behavior differ with Gatsby versus with Tom?

Throughout the narrative of The Great Gatsby in which both Daisy and Tom Buchanan are present, there is a distance and lack of intimacy between these two married characters until they sit closely across the table with heads together as they plot their alibis regarding the death of Myrtle Wilson. In Chapter One, for instance, she lies listlessly upon a white couch with Jordan Baker as Tom Buchanan "hovered restlessly" about the room. She has a voice like one of the Sirens; there is something unearthly about her appearance and her "thrilling voice." When she does speak to her husband, it is to complain that he has hurt her little finger, "That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big bulking physical specimen of a ----" here Tom cuts her off harshly.

As the narrative progresses, it becomes clear that there is tension between Daisy and Tom. For example, near the end of Chapter One, the phone rings and shortly afterwards, Tom and Daisy emerge from the other room and return to the table. Daisy glances "searchingly at Nick and Miss Baker than in a singing voice calls attention to a bird who sings outside, but Tom speaks "miserably" to Nick, inviting him to the stables after dinner. Nick notices that Daisy holds her head as "turbulent emotions possessed her."

But, after Gatsby invites her to his mansion, it is a very self-possessed Daisy Buchanan who arrives at Nick's bungalow for a rendez-vous with Gatsby. As Jordan Baker says, "....there's something in that voice of hers...."In one instance, when he speaks to Gatsby, "Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy." Yet, hers is a maudlin joy as she looks at all of Gatsby's shirts: 

"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before."

Nick, too, observes that Gatsby is held by Daisy's voice, its 

fluctuating, feverish warmth because it couldn't be overdreamed--that voice was a deathless song.

With Gatsby, Daisy is a dream renewed, her voice full of "feverish warmth" that disguises its owner, who is merely enjoying the moment. She revels in the charm of money, but has no genuine feelings for Gatsby. With Tom, there is a certain dependency, but it is less about love than about wealth and social position. With Tom, then, her marriage is one of materialism--she was bought with a $30,000.00 string of pearls. Thus, she conspires with him, for, like him, she is a "careless" person.

What are the similarities and differences in Tom's and Gatsby's love for Daisy?

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel about the illusions of the Jazz Age, "The Great Gatsby," both Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are unrealistic about their relationships with Daisy Buchanan; their love for her is an illusion.  Both have taken Daisy under false pretenses.  When Gatsby was dating her, he

took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously--eventually he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right to touch her hand.

 Tom, "supercilious" and from an extremely wealthy family, simply acquires Daisy as he has acquired a stable of polo ponies.  This acquisition having been accomplished, Tom philanders and amuses himself with other women, such as Mrytle Wilson, with whom he is extremely brutal, having "broken her nose with his open hand." 

After Daisy tells Gatsby that she loves him, Tom catches the look between Gatsby and Daisy:

He was astounded.  His mouth opened a little and he looked at Gatsby and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago.

On the other hand, Jay Gatsby romanticizes Daisy, thinking of her years ago in her white car; her idealized purity makes her an illusion for Gatsby.  When he kisses Daisy,

At his lips' touch, she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

When Daisy plans to betray him by allowing Gatsby to take the blame for the death of Myrtle,  the romantic Gatsby stands by in the garden looking into the house in his pink suit under the moon, keeping vigil for her. Gallantly, he tells Nick that he will say that he drove his car on the night Myrtle was killed.  So, Nick leaves "as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil...watching over nothing."

On the other hand, Tom allows George Wilson to believe that Gatsby drove the "death car" that murdered his wife.  He is no gallant hero for Daisy as is Gatsby, who pays "a high price for living too long with a single dream."  Tom Buchanan only acquired Daisy as one would acquire a new automobile, while Jay Gatsby acquired wealth so that he could acquire Daisy.

In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, how is Daisy acting toward Gatsby and what does Tom say to Nick about this?

At the luncheon, Daisy is acting very flirtatiously toward Gatsby. She says things like, "You always look so cool," and "You resemble the advertisement of a man." These seemingly innocent comments are actually deeply representative of the situation that Daisy finds herself in. In terms of setting, the drawing room in which the luncheon is held is stifling. The "day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer." Upon Nick's entrance, the women, Daisy and Jordan, both assert, "We can't move." In this instance, Fitzgerald is representing the intensity of the situation with the heat that is literally and figuratively suffocating. This "heat" is the anger of Tom Buchanan, Daisy's husband who discovers Daisy and Gatsby's affair when Daisy mouths to Gatsby that she loves him. "It's so hot," Daisy insists, on the verge of tears. Clearly, Daisy is unable to cope with the pressure exerted by her husband, and the "cool" Gatsby represents an escape from the heat that surrounds her. 

After seeing Daisy mouth to Gatsby that she loves him, Tom suggests that they all go for a drive into the city. On the way, he asks Nick, "Did you see that," referring to Daisy telling Gatsby that she loves him. After Nick feigns ignorance, Tom realizes correctly that Nick and Jordan must have known all along about the affair. Tom then asks, "You must think I'm pretty dumb, don't you," and goes on to reveal that he has made an "investigation" of Gatsby's past. This passage is important because it is later revealed that Gatsby is involved in the criminal underground, and Tom eventually uses this information to convince Daisy to leave Gatsby. 

Compare Tom and Gatsby's love for Daisy in The Great Gatsby.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Tom and Gatsby are both "in love" with Daisy. Let's look at some aspects of their love so that you can compare and contrast the two.

Tom is married to Daisy, and he claims that he loves her and always will. His behavior, however, shows something else. He cheats on Daisy with Myrtle, for one thing, and he tends to be rather aggressive toward his wife at times. He is also jealous when he learns that Daisy is having an affair with Gatsby. Daisy decides to stay with Tom likely because of his social status, but it is doubtful that there is any real love between them.

Gatsby claims to be in love with Daisy, too. The two met years before, and Gatsby says that he fell in love with Daisy then, before her marriage to Tom. Gatsby certainly feels something for Daisy. He is obsessed with her. Perhaps she represents a time when he was a bit more innocent, a time that deep down he wants to return to. Gatsby goes to great lengths to impress Daisy, and we get the idea that much of his wealth and flourish is meant to attract her. We wonder, though, if Gatsby realizes Daisy's shallowness, and we might question whether he loves her or his idea of her.