The Great Gatsby

Why does gatsby show daisy all of his shirts? How does daisy react? Why?

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Gatsby is showing off. As for Daisy, it seems silly, of course, to cry over shirts, but it is not the shirts themselves that overwhelm her but what they symbolize: Gatsby's extraordinary dedication to his dream. Wouldn't you be moved to tears to find yourself the object of so much adoration?

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