Daisy meets Gatsby when he is training to be an officer in Louisville. They later meet again through Nick Caraway.
Five years .
It had been 5 years since Daisy and Gatsby first united.
Gatsby views Daisy's child with surprise because he is overwhelmed by the realization that Daisy has moved on with her life and started a family without him. It emphasizes the passage of time and Gatsby's inability to recapture the past with Daisy.
In "The Great Gatsby," Daisy Buchanan is in her late 20s.
Nick and Daisy go to Gatsby's house in Chapter 5 of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This is the chapter where Gatsby reunites with Daisy after many years, and they have a meeting at his mansion.
Gatsby is surprised and disappointed when he learns that Daisy has a child with Tom Buchanan. He had hoped that Daisy's love for him had endured over the years, but the existence of her child highlights the life she has built with Tom.
Gatsby believes that by impressing Daisy with his extravagant parties, he can win back her love and erase the five years they have been apart. He hopes that through his lavish gatherings, Daisy will see his wealth and status, and he can recreate the romantic relationship they shared before.
In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby does not literally turn the clock back five years, but rather does so figuratively with Daisy. At the end of Chapter 6, Nick Carraway, the narrator, ends the chapter with a description of how Gatsby and Daisy's love first blossomed five years ago. In that same area, when Nick warns Gatsby about repeating the past, Gatsby incredulous and says a famous line "Can't repeat the past?...Why of course you can!" (Fitzgerald 110).Gatsby, who even purchases a house across the Long Island Sound from Daisy Buchanan's home just so he can see the green light on her house's dock every night, is very much in love with Daisy. The height of their relationship was five years ago when they first fell in love while Gatsby was stationed as an army lieutenant in Daisy's town. Gatsby wants to turn back time to when they were in love and Daisy was his sweetheart. Everything Gatsby does in this novel, is to bring him and Daisy closer together. He has the parties in hope that Daisy will one day show up to one of them. He has a house across from hers, just to see the green light on her dock every night.As shown in the quote I cited above, Gatsby wants to (figuratively) turn the clock back five years because he wants the love that he and Daisy shared to blossom yet again.My edition of the book: F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 1925.
Daisy was living in Louisville when she met Gatsby. She was a debutante from a wealthy family, and Gatsby, a young military officer at the time, was stationed nearby. They fell in love, but their relationship faced challenges due to social expectations and Gatsby's lack of wealth and social status.
Jordan Baker is a close friend of Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby." They share a social circle and have known each other for many years. Jordan is often seen at Daisy's side during gatherings and events in the novel.
As you probably know, Gatsby and Daisy encountered each other before (5 years before, according to Gatsby). But Gatsby left for WWI, and Daisy was torn between marrying Gatsby for love, or Tom Buchanan for money. She went with Tom Buchanan, probably because she thought Gatsby would never return. Five years later: Gatsby moves into the West Egg, DIRECTLY ACROSS from Daisy. This means that he has wealth, but it is NeW money (W = west egg). He invites Daisy over eventually for tea, and shows her around his house. Eventually, he shows Daisy his shirt collection. Daisy is overwhelmed by his shirt collection: the vibrant colors are a stark contrast from the blandness of her marriage with Tom. And now that Gatsby has material wealth, too, she realizes that she could've had the "best of both worlds" with Gatsby, instead of Tom.
No, Gatsby did not buy a necklace for Daisy. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby," he buys a lavish house across the water from her, throws extravagant parties to catch her attention, and reunites with her after years apart, but there is no mention of him buying her a necklace.