Why I stayed with Tom

When I first fell in love with Gatsby, I fell in love with his personality. I knew I could not marry him because “rich girls can’t marry poor boys”. I loved him but I had to leave him because he was not the upper class man I needed to count on to support and take care of me. I later found Tom. He was no Gatsby, but he was the wealthy man I could count on. He was the status quo of the time period. Even though my love for Gatsby was stronger than my love for Tom, I needed a man I could count on to support me in life. Tom fulfilled this but I was never fully happy being with him. I was still deeply in love with Gatsby. I knew it was better to live with a rich man that I was not fully in love with, than a poor man who I was head over heels with. When I met Gatsby at Nick’s cottage and saw how wealthy he was now, I was overjoyed that maybe one day, I could be with my real love, Gatsby.