""Your wife doesn't love you," said Gatsby. "She's never loved you. She loves me."
"You must be crazy!" exclaimed Tom automatically.
Gatsby sprang to his feet, vivid with excitement.
"She never loved you, do you hear?" he cried. "She only married you
because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a
terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!"
At this point Jordan and I tried to go, but Tom and Gatsby insisted
with competitive firmness that we remain-as though neither of them had
anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously
of their emotions" (ch 7, ebook)
This quote illustrates the collapse of Tom's dream, or his belief at least, of having a wife that actually loved him and only him. We can see this collapse directly when Gatsby claimed that Daisy never loved him and the tension in the air is getting intense. I would say this is a climax in this story. The later part of the story after this quote showed that despite Daisy did love Gatsby, she couldn't say that she's never been in love with Tom.
In addition, Tom saw this as crazy as intermarriage between white and black, which means he thought this was crazy and unacceptable.
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