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• rejects Nick's advice to forget Daisy and leave Long Island.
• He remembers how taken he was by her wealth, her enormous house, and even by the fact that other men had loved her.
• To be with her he let her believe he was of the same class as her
• Then he left for World War I. Daisy waited for a while and then drifted away from him and into marriage with Tom Buchanan.
• He was in love with the idea of Daisy: Daisy's love gave Gatsby an identity as a young man, and made his manufactured "new money" identity legitimate. To preserve that identity, he had to have her

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