Why does Tom insist that Daisy go home with Gatsby? What do you think this tells us about Tom's character and his relationship with Daisy?What...

In the climactic Chapter 7 after Gatsby "plays his cards," thinking that he can get Daisy to deny having loved Tom and go with him, the argument in the New York hotel room takes another turn as Tom uncovers Gatsby's source of wealth:  he is a bootlegger.  As Gatsby attempts to defend himself, but only the "dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away."  Daisy loses her courage to stand up to Tom and Gatsby is defeated.

It is at this point that Tom, the cruel winner, tells Daisy to "start on home...In Mr. Gatsby's car."

She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn.

'Go on.  He won't annoy you. I think he realizes that his presumptuous little firtation is over.'

In his victorious statement, Tom further insults both Gatsby and Daisy, making them go in the yellow car on a most uncomfortable ride.  Even in this scene the car is a "death car," for Daisy and Gatsby's infatuation has certainly been killed by Tom.  Nick narrates,

They were gone, without a sound, snapped out, made accidental, isolated like ghosts even from our pity.