The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"'Was Daisy driving?' 'Yes,' he said after a moment, 'but of course I'll say I was'" (Fitzgerald, 142).
He is a fool- a fool head over heels in love with a woman as shallow and heartless as Lily Bart. He would put a claim on the death sentence for a woman who blatantly refused his love even after confessing her own love for him hours earlier. I think I'm coming to understand that Daisy Buchanan is more like Tom than I thought. Her security in money and aristocracy is far more important than her safety and than her happiness, because she seems to understand happiness in terms of money, wealth, and by no means an association with new money. I think it would be interesting to see how Tom would respond if he knew it was by Daisy's hand (or reckless driving) that his mistress was murdered. What kind of new situation would this understanding of his wife present? I would think that it would be far more likely that Gatsby and Daisy would end up together, if Tom didn't wring his hands around her to kill her first. I just cannot comprehend such an unfathomable love for a careless reckless woman, who doesn't actually love Gatsby at all.
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