Tom Buchanan has just caught on that his wife, Daisy, is having an affair with Gatsby, and in this scene everything tumbles out into the open. Gatsby pushes Daisy to admit that she loves him and doesn’t love Tom, but even that’s unsatisfying for Gatsby. When he pushes Daisy to declare that she never loved Tom, Daisy objects that Gatsby “want[s] too much”—he wants Daisy to have always loved him and never loved Tom, which simply isn’t true. Earlier in the novel, Nick sensed that this was what Gatsby had been fantasizing about for years; he was fixated on a…