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Daisy's Relationship With The Great Gatsby
At the beginning of the novel Gatsby’s main problem is trying to be able to find the chance to meet with Daisy so that he can win her back. Gatsby reveals to Nick after befriending him that he had been in a relationship with Daisy and had even moved to West Egg to his mansion so that he would be able to be closer to her. The parties he threw were done in hope that they would attract Daisy to come over and give him the chance to see her after so many years but it never occurred. Gatsby also could not go over and try to see Daisy in person because of his own hesitance to do so and because she was a married woman now with a child. There was no way for him to get in contact with the woman he had been waiting for up until the moment that Nick arrived

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