Daisy does not like to deal with real issues or with reality. She prefers to live in an existence of dolls and make believe where she can create worlds and lives and alter them to her liking in order to avoid the harshness of the real world. This becomes evident almost as soon as she is introduced into the novel, but it especially becomes clear when she tells Nick, in the first chapter, what she said when her daughter was born:
I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Because of this attitude, creating a romance between Nick and Jordan is nothing more than a pleasantly diverting game for Daisy. Tom does not have the same aversion to reality because he believes he controls his world anyway. A romance between Nick and Jordan is irrelevant to Tom, other than the fact that he likes both Nick and Jordan and sees them as being worthy of his company.
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