Fitzgerald has Tom and Daisy unhappy with each other and their lives, but neither of them will divorce or work out their marriage. When Jordan was talking about Daisy and Gatsby she said “The officer looked at Daisy in the way every young girl wants to be looked at sometime” (80). Daisy was madly in love with Gatsby because he treated as if she was the only girl in the world. Daisy settled for Tom, and Tom does not even compare to Gatsby. Nevertheless, Tom shows that he does not respect Daisy by interrupting her multiple times. Daisy says, “That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big hulking physical specimen of a- “I hate that word hulking” objected Tom crossly (16). Tom does not even let Daisy participate in the conversation.
