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Okay, hear me out. I know that "Right Where You Left Me" wasn't written about Gatsby, nor do I think it was, but I just think the lyrics make a very interesting comparison to his character.
Taylor said; The song is about a girl who stayed forever in the exact spot where her heart was broken, completely frozen in time." – if that doesn't basically describe Gatsby's entire personality I don't know what does.

« Friends break up, friends get married
Strangers get born, strangers get buried
Trends change, rumours fly through new skies
But I'm right where you left me »
Gatsby's life mission is to do everything he can to get Daisy to love him back because she wasn't able to when they were young and he was poor. He refuses to realize that she moved on and is married with a child and that everyone else has moved on as well. This idea that he cannot move on despite the fact that everyone else, including Daisy, has continued with their lives is perfectly reflected in the opening lines of the song. He is very much still stuck in the past where Daisy left him.

« Did you hear about the girl who lives in delusion? »
Again, Gatsby is a very delusional character, especially when it comes to the way he reminisces and refuses to accept the present and the way it has changed. At some point in the book Gatsby is confronted about this by Nick and he responds by saying;
« ‘Can't repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’ … ‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ he said, nodding determinedly. ‘She'll see.’ »
Gatsby optimistically lives in the delusion of the past, believing that the tighter he holds on to it, the closer he is to regaining it, very similar to the girl in the song.

« They expected me to find somewhere
Some perspective, but I sat and stared
Right where you left me »
The girl is sitting in this restaurant for eternity looking at the chair in front of her because it’s almost like she’s looking at her partner and imagining they’re still there. Likewise, Gatsby literally buys his house solely because it would be right across the bay from Daisy’s house. We also see him walk out to the dock and stare at the green light in the distance; the light at the end of Daisy’s dock.

I could honestly go on and on about this but I’ll stop myself for both of our sakes.

Ok so Ive never read this book but this makes so much sense and I also noticed that you said Daisy has a kid? like "Kids and Christmas" anyways great comparison :)