Well, about six weeks ago, she heard the name Gatsby for the first time in years. It was when I asked you – do you remember? – if you knew Gatsby in West Egg. After you had gone home she came into my room and woke me up, and said: ‘What Gatsby?’ and when I described him – I was half asleep – she said in the strangest voice that it must be the man she used to know. It wasn’t until then that I connected this Gatsby with the officer in her white car.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, Chapter 4. Jordan Baker relating the story of Daisy to Nick Carraway. And how she realized that Jay Gatsby was the young officer who before she married Tom watched her ‘in a way that every girl wants to be looked at’ – her former love.