"'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.'" - Daisy Buchanon, page 92.
Ok, so it is a little hard to determine if Daisy truly is in love with anyone or if she is just a gold-digger, out to be with anyone who can make her rich. As soon as Gatsby left for the war, she was quick to marry someone else. Tom Buchanon happens to be very wealthy, only adding to my prediction that Daisy is a gold-digger. Additionally, Gatsby makes a point to make sure that Daisy sees his home. He wants to impress her. Maybe he, too, knows that she has a weakness for the finer things in life. He probably knows that if she sees his incredibly rich life and his incredibly nice home, then maybe she will fall in love with him again and he will be able to win her back. Being with someone like this will not make him happy. Perhaps the reason Tom cheats on her is because he knows she is just using him for his money. Perhaps he knows that she does not truly love him. This would explain his comment at the beginning of the novel when he said, "Don't believe everything you hear, Nick." This was immediately after he realized that Daisy and Nick were talking about his infidelity.
I would definitely agree with this. I think that Daisy is one of the many characters in this novel that longs for things that she doesn't have and goes to extreme means to obtain such possessions.
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