Examples Of Daisy's Marriage In The Great Gatsby

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I chose pg 138, “Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other…” until the end of chapter 7 for my passage. This passage, overall, acknowledges not only Daisy and Tom’s reliance on their dysfunctional marriage, but also the beginning of the death of Gatsby and Daisy’s affair. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows this through a sudden change of proximity between Daisy and Tom compared to what we see in the previous sections of the book. Introduced to Tom and Daisy eating ‘cold fried chicken… and two bottles of ale’ in agreement while holding each other's hands, Fitzgerald shows readers that the convenience of Tom and Daisy’s marriage is crucial to both of them; despite both being in affairs, that they will still stay together through murder and a general