Gatsby was in love with Daisy. It all started when he was in the army. He met Daisy and
they fell in love. Then Gatsby was sent off on a mission. He returned but was sent to
Oxford on some misunderstanding. Daisy didn't wait for him. She started dating other
men. She wanted a man that could support her. She wanted someone with money, with
love, "She wanted her life shaped now, immediately- of love, of money" (159). Then one
day she met the man of her dreams. Tom Buchanon arrived and he was the man for her.
They were to be married in the fall. Gatsby couldn't do anything to get there. When he
got out of Oxford he spent the last of his military pay and went back to Louisville for his
last hope of seeing her. Tom and her were gone, on a wedding trip. Gatsby looked
around the town for a week. He never did get hold of her again. Tom and Daisy moved
Gatsby wandered around getting any kind of a job that would put food on the table
and a roof over his head. Later on he got help by a man with a yacht. This man got
Gatsby looking good and smart. Then Gatsby became rich through selling drugs. He
bought a mansion in Long Island. He always had these big parties hoping for Daisy to
show up at one. But she never did. A new neighbor, Nick, got to know Gatsby. He set
up for them two to meet together at his house. Gatsby was nervous at the fact that he
would see Daisy again, he was almost sick. Little by little they started talking more and
more to each other. Gatsby wanted Daisy to tell Tom that she never liked him but she
never did. She found out that Tom was dating someone else so she started to go out with
Gatsby. Then Gatsby was murdered.
You see if Nick never set this meeting together, Gatsby probably would have
never seen Daisy again. That is how this theme appears in this novel. This theme is very
important in this novel. Without it, it would h...