6. Gatsby’s unexpected departure from the restaurant upon meeting Tom is a transition for what Jordan is about to tell Nick. What startling news does Nick discover about Daisy and Gatsby?

Back in 1917, when Daisy was eighteen and Jordan sixteen, the two had been volunteers with the Red Cross. Though all the officers at the military base had courted Daisy, she fell passionately in love with a young lieutenant named Jay Gatsby. Though she had promised to wait for Gatsby's return, she accepted Tom Buchanan's proposal of marriage while Gatsby was still away at war.