In chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby, Nick visits Gatsby for breakfast and encourages him to leave West Egg for a while, but Gatsby refuses to leave Daisy. Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy never came outside the previous night, but rejects Nicks advice to forget Daisy and leave Long Island. Gatsby recounts how he first met Daisy and how he courted her before the war. He was in love with the idea of Daisy, and Daisys love gave Gatsby an identity as a young man and made his manufactured "new money" identity legitimate. To preserve that identity, he had to have her. Gatsby tries to reassure himself that Daisy does still love him and that the two of them can live happily ever after. Later that afternoon, Nick and some of Wolfsheims men working at Gatsbys house discover Gatsby, shot dead in his pool. Wilsons dead body is close by lying in the grass. The recklessness of the Roaring Twenties destroys every relationship: Myrtle and Wilson, Myrtle and Tom, Daisy and Gatsby, Jordan and Nick. Only "old money" ...