It is in this chapter that Jordan relates to Nick the past of
Daisy and Tom and Gatbsy, and how this love triangle apparently resolved itself with the marriage
of Tom and Daisy. However, Jordan remembers on the eve of Daisy's marriage finding Daisy drunk
and clutching a letter. It is then that she drunkenly slurs that the marriage is over. Although
we are not told, we can assume that the letter was from Gatsby. However, once she had been
sobered up, she carried on with the original plan and was married after
all:
But she didn't
say another word. We gate her spirits of ammonia and put ice on her forehead and hooked her back
into her dress, and half an hour later, when we walked out of the room, the pearls were around
her neck and the incident was over. Next day at five o'clock she married Tom Buchanan without so
much as a shiver, and started off on a three months' trip to the South
Seas.
So, presumably, we can infer
that having expressed her feelings and love for Gatsby with her drunkenness, she has managed to
"get it out of her system," and is able to carry on with the original plan, which was of course
to marry someone who was more her social equal than Gatsby.
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