Although we first learn of Gatsby's interest in Daisy from Jordan, when she tells Nick that Gatsby would like Nick to invite Daisy over to his house and allow Gatsby to come over, Gatsby himself doesn't really make his intentions toward her clear until much later.
After she came, one night, to his party, he says to Nick, "'I feel very far away from her [...]. It's hard to make her understand [....]. She used to be able to understand. We'd sit for hours--.'" However, despite the fact that everything is different now -- she is married with a child and she has a life of her own -- Gatsby insists that "of course [one] can" repeat the past. He believes that he can make Daisy understand, that they can somehow go back to who and how they were before the war, before she married Tom. He says, "'I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before [...]. She'll see." In other words, he is going to try to make her love him again as he still loves her. And it seems that he almost does succeed.
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