In The Great Gatsby, the married couple Tom Buchanan and Daisy are having affairs. Specifically sexual relations with other people besides with each other. I believe Tom just wants a mistress to have on the side. I don't believe they truly loved one another since they had recent carnal knowledge of other people, and they were being adulterers, similar to Hesther in The Scarlett Letter. This being said, they should have gotten a divorce due to this. I think Daisy had an idea that he was, but she probably wasn't sure.
Daisy and Gatsby were in love before she even married Tom. This is still not a reason to bypass that she was an adulterer, but she couldn't wait on Gatsby any longer to get himself together with money. One thing that is crazy is that as Tom was in the house with them to get them something to drink, Gatsby and Daisy just started making out. He didn't even have any suspicion about their relation with each until he later noticed him giving her glances and when Gatsby had that outburst of his love towards Daisy. I'm not sure if they actually had sexual affairs with each other as they were married, but I think they did, and they most likely did before she was married.
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