After Myrtle answers Catherine questions and why she married George Wilson which indicates that Myrtle doesn 't think he is fit enough to be her husband. She was basically using him for the things she thought he had. And now she 's saying that he isn 't even worthy enough to lick her shoes. This is basically saying that he is worthless. During this time people consume more alcohol than nowadays and alcohol is a great want and need for the lives of most people to get away from stressful times, to have fun or to make a living.
Tom takes Nick to his apartment in the city shortly after they pick up Myrtle. Fitzgerald develops Myrtle to be controlling when Tom tells Nick that “‘Myrtle’ll be hurt if [he doesn’t] come up to the apartment'’”, even when Nick openly exclaims that he is not interested in coming along (28).
Tom Buchanan: wealthy at a wealthy time The roaring twenties were the birth of a now iconic brand of materialism and ignorance in America. And in the great American novel: The Great Gatsby, no character encapsulates the roaring twenties quite like Tom Buchanan. He is an extremely privileged cis white male who was born into vast wealth. Born into a nearly perfect scenario and without the burden of capitalism, he directly causes the death of another person for personal gain.
George is a selfless but clueless person who barely has a penny to his name. Tom, Nick and Myrtle travel to the city to the apartment that Tom and Myrtle keep their affair private. Myrtle's sister Catherine comes and eventually the whole group becomes extremely drunk and incapable of coming to reality. Later on Myrtle keeps talking about Daisy and how Tom should just dump her but Tom breaks her nose and tells her to never say Daisy's name ever again. Even though Tom is having an affair this shows that he does still care very deeply about
Differing economic and financial origins shape individuals and determine their lifestyle depending on how the individual decides to navigate opportunities. Born into a poor family, Gatsby works hard to climb the social ladder and make something of himself. However, despite his best efforts, Fitgerald determines he is never able to escape the stigma of his humble beginnings and ultimately pays for this pressure to contend with those around him, with his life. This is elucidated where Tom Buchanan expresses that “the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.” depicting how despite his wealth and success, Gatsby is never truly accepted by the ‘elite’ society he wants to be a part of.
Tom and George share a similar opinion on their attidudes toward women. Both Tom and George are vicious, Tom when he hits Myrtle, has a fight with Gatsby, and in the way that he approaches individuals he supposes are underneath him or that have wronged him somehow. He obviously was less similar to this until after he completed school where the hardness in him turned out to be more evident and he started effectively destroying individuals when conceivable. George additionally follows up on fierce driving forces and executes somebody out of the anger that he feels for being singled out by everybody including his better half. He feels a specific pointlessness in his life in view of his work, his area in the no man's land, and the way that regardless
Perceptions are the ways you look at things, people, etc. they also are the way people look at you. The novel, “The Great Gatsby”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about characters who lust for attention, power, and money, they would do anything for those things, even going to extremes of putting on a facade to become something/ someone they’re not. One of the characters in the story is Tom Buchannan.
Have you ever looked at somebody and you can tell that they are judging you? Well the person who is judging you is most definitely Nick Carraway. He’s a sophisticated Yale University graduate and is very complex with his perspective on life. When he becomes friends with his next door neighbor, Jay Gatsby he meets some people that he is very quick to judge upon. The book ruckus mainly begins when Gatsby asks Nick to basically be his wingman to help him meet with the love of his life, Daisy.
Tom makes Nick come with him to see his girlfriend who is Myrtle. Tom does not even care if he does not want to go. Tom says, “‘We’re getting off,’ he insisted. ‘I want you to meet my girl’” (Fitzgerald 19).
Tom Buchanan is Fitzgerald’s masterpiece of creating a character who portrays the life, and characteristics as an alpha male. Through the vision of character’s surrounding Tom we began to see how his loftier masculinity characterizes him in the story. I begin with a quote from Tom’s wife Daisy that embodies the intimidating masculine characteristics of Tom, “I know you didn’t mean to, but you did do it. That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a-----” (Fitzgerald 12). In this quote from Daisy we view a list of characteristics that are associated with Tom’s masculinity.
Landon Freeman Glick ELA 07 june 2023 The Great Gatsby “Your wife doesn’t love you,” said Gatsby. “She’s never loved you. She loves me” (Fitzgerald 130). The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald this book compares two men, one who grew up with nothing and worked his way to the top, versus a man who inherited everything and stayed at the top and how they later meet.
The scene in the New York apartment reveals that Tom has money and doesn’t care about spending it. He would buy anything for Myrtle if she wanted it: such as the dog. Money has no value for him. This also reveals how much Myrtle would like to be apart of the upper class
Character Ambiguity in “The Great Gatsby” Throughout a large majority of fictional literature, the characters are constructed to act and react upon however the author fabricates them to be. Within the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan’s character can be interpreted in a variety of connotations; her attitudes and behaviors reflect on her morality. Throughout the narrative, Fitzgerald displays Daisy as a controversial character with examples of her ambiguous personality qualities and actions.
Tom also has a big connection with Nick as confides in him to keep Myrtle a secret. With Myrtle as a lover and uses her for his pleasure and enjoyment but this soon creates drama with George Wilson. His involvement with Myrtle is a secret that Nick knows about but Daisy doesn’t know anything about Myrtle which
a. One situation that I was able to utilize developmentally-appropriate techniques to deliver quality care was when I was performing my assessment. I made sure to tell the patient what I was doing, as well as bent down during the assessment so that I wasn’t towering over him. I also pressed buttons on his toy to interact with him. Even though I did those things, I was nervous for this assessment, so I feel like I could have done more with using different techniques. 2.
