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 east egg and west egg. the upper class and the middle class. jay gatsby and tom buchanan. rumor and reality.