Analysis Of Tom Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

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Nick Carraway maintains the impression that the Buchanans are deeply inconsiderate of others at both the beginning and the end of the novel. In the first chapter he observes that Tom Buchanan’s “speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked” (Fitzgerald 7). Tom looks down upon everyone he encounters and is prone to appear vainglorious. Daisy Buchanan is a narcissist in her own way. Only when she hears that people are yearning for her return to Chicago does she express a desire to return to the city. “Do they miss me?” (Fitzgerald 9), she asks. After Nick misrepresents the degree to which she is in fact missed in Chicago