On “Gatsby”
From the text: “‘I wanted people who would not gossip. Daisy comes over quite often–in the afternoons,'” Gatsby says on the phone to Carraway. I think the idea of the novel is that Gatsby and Daisy still love each other, but it is morally wrong because she has married another man.
I think one of the ideas of the novel is Gatsby and Daisy were a better match for each other romantically, but she married someone else, and it was too late for them. Carraway falls for the golf athlete Jordan Baker, but they can’t connect for some reason.
Gossip is interesting. It is really just communication. But some men get mad about it because it can be wrong factually.