Read the excerpt from The Great Gatsby.“But we heard it,” insisted Daisy, surprising me by opening up again in a flower-like way. “We heard it from three people, so it must be true.”Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn’t even vaguely engaged. The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come East. You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage. Daisy’s insistence that the rumor of Nick’s engagement is true despite his denial suggests a conflict between
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the upper class and the middle class.C
Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan.Daisy treats the rumor about Nick’s engagement as true because she has heard it from several people, while Nick’s narration makes clear that he is not engaged. This contrast between what people say and what is actually true creates a conflict between rumor and reality. The passage does not focus on the differences between the Eggs, social classes, or Gatsby and Tom.
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