This is what causes menstrual cramps. Then after 14 days, the hormonal level changes to prepare for the release of the next egg. The hormone levels of both estrogen and progesterone keep rising till about 4 days before the next period, and then, if fertilization has not taken place, they fall.
Daisy is the woman that Gatsby loves. She is nicks cousin and is married to Tom. When she was younger her and Gatsby were in love but Gatsby was not wealthy.
Gatsby lives with the illusion that through the force of his will, he can negate the previous five years and that he and Daisy can go back and begin their relationship again. Acting within his illusion, he wants Daisy to tell Tom she not only does not love him now, she never loved him at all. This passage from Chapter 6... Gatsby's colossal dream, as Nick referred to it, is to literally repeat the past.