In Chapter 6 of The Great Gatsby, what does Gatsby want from Daisy?

Chapter 6 concerns Tom and Daisy’s first visit to Gatsby’s mansion, for one of his splendid parties.  Daisy is impressed at the celebrities in attendance, but overall doesn’t have a very good time.  “She was appalled by West Egg,” Fitzgerald writes, and despite her politeness it was very clear how she felt, for when the party was over Gatsby approaches Nick and says, with no prelude, “She didn’t like it.”  He wanted desperately for Daisy to be impressed by his party, by his lavish guests and his lavish decorations; he wanted her to fall in love with his extravagance, and by extension be overwhelmed with admiration and love for him, for Gatsby himself.  Nick states soon after this initial interchange that “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say:  ‘I never loved you.’” 

In Chapter 6, we see that Gatsby wants Daisy’s admiration, and he wants her love.  He wants her to become dissatisfied with the life she has, he wants her to leave Tom and run to him.  And he has lived with his illusions for so long he is surprised when these things do not happen immediately.  “And she doesn’t understand,” he laments – “She used to be able to understand.”  He is clinging desperately to a long-gone era of his life, so much so that he rejects Nick’s reality-check and says that of course you can repeat the past.  Of course.  As if it were the most logical thing in the world.  As if it were the founding principle of the world.  And he becomes overfull with the determination to recreate everything, to make Daisy fall in love with him by making everything as it was before – it is an obsession, and here we see the first fruits of that obsession, and the first real insight into Gatsby’s emotional disfigurement.