The specific chapter would depend on what edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby you were reading. It occurs in Chapter Six of the edition I'm working with. Throughout the novel, Gatsby's love for Daisy and his intentions are revealed incrementally. It is in Chapter Six that the tension reaches a climax. It is a hot day and Gatsby has been visiting at Daisy's home. She is trying to work up the courage to tell Tom that she loves Gatsby but fails to do it outright. Tom suspects the truth from her tone of voice and the way she is looking at Gatsby. Someone suggests that they do something to escape the heat, and they end up in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom begins picking at Gatsby, trying to discredit him. Tom is not impressed with Gatsby's wealth because Tom comes from "old...
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money," and people from established families often looked down on the newly rich. Gatsby tells Tom that he has tried to convince Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him. Here is the quote:
"'She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!'" At this point Jordan and I tried to go, but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain as though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions."
In Chapter Eight, more is revealed about the way Jay Gatsby and Daisy first met and how his poverty kept him from being a suitable mate for her, despite their feelings for one another. He was always reaching socially, but his love for Daisy catapulted his desire to be someone of importance and great wealth into a new dimension. Here is a quote from Chapter Eight in which Nick Carraway recants what Gatsby has told him of their first meeting:
"In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between. He found her excitingly desirable. He went to her house, at first with other officers from Camp Taylor, then alone. It amazed him. He had never been in such a beautiful house before. But what gave it an air of breathless intensity, was that Daisy lived there. It was as casual a thing to her as his tent out at camp was to him. There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms up−stairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors, and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year's shining motor−cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered. It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy. It increased her value in his eyes. He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions. But he knew that he was in Daisy's house by a colossal accident. However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders. So he made the most of his time. He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously."
This quote reveals that Daisy came from money and took it for granted. She didn't know that Gatsby had no money because when she first met him he was wearing an Army officer's uniform. Many men fought in World War I from all walks of life, and the uniform blurred the socioeconomic status.
Daisy's decision to choose Tom's wealth instead of Gatsby's love is alluded to at various points in the story. One direct quote about the matter comes from the mouth of Gatsby himself.
In chapter seven of The Great Gatsby, tension has been building between Tom and Gatsby. The tension had already begun earlier in the day when Tom noticed the flirtatious interaction of Daisy and Gatsby before the group went to town. Tom feels further nettled when Gatsby comes to Daisy's defense, telling Tom to leave her alone after Tom has shown annoyance about Daisy's complaints about the heat. Tom begins to ask suspicious questions about Gatsby's past and credentials, which causes Daisy to stick up for Gatsby, much to Tom's further outrage. Tom indicates that he knows about Daisy and Gatsby's romantic behavior with one another, to which Gatsby reacts as a man whose honor has been threatened. Both men ignore Daisy's attempts to de-escalate the situation. Provoked by one another's challenging words, Gatsby and Tom have the following exchange:
‘Your wife doesn’t love you,’ said Gatsby. ‘She’s never loved you. She loves me.’
‘You must be crazy!’ exclaimed Tom automatically.
Gatsby sprang to his feet, vivid with excitement.
‘She never loved you, do you hear?’ he cried. ‘She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!’