Why I married Tom

After Jay went off to war, I stayed behind and waited for him to return to me. I would have waited forever had it not been my mother pushing me to meet this wealthy, aristocrat named Tom Buchanan. Even though I wasn’t ready to let Jay go, I started dating Tom. Tom was a very handsome, successful man and before I knew it, I was falling in love with him. When I was with him, I forgot about Jay and how much I missed him. After we got engaged, I still thought about Jay. Part of me wished he would come home and we could be together again, but I couldn’t allow myself to think about him anymore. I made the decision to finally let him go. On the day of my wedding to Tom, I received a letter from Jay asking me to wait for him to make something of himself, a man worthy of my love. And just like that, the love I felt for Jay came rushing back and I wanted to be with him. I ripped the pearls that Tom had bought me right off my neck and cried that somebody needed to stop the wedding. All this time I was fooling myself because even though I loved Tom, I loved Jay even more. No one would listen to me and the wedding went on as planned. That day I became Mrs. Daisy Buchanan. I married Tom because I was selfish. I couldn’t wait for Jay to become someone worthy of my love because I wasn’t worthy enough to love him. I took the easy way out and entered a marriage I no longer wanted.