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Characteristics Of Tom Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

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Tom’s Supercilious Tom is a very wealthy man but, his supercilious also matches his wealth, and during the story that will cause issues during the story. The story the Great Gatsby has a variety of characters, but the Character I choose was Tom Buchanan because of his manners and his attitudes toward everyone in book and the stuff he does to people. How he acts in the book really causes some problems that have to do with everyone and not only does he cause lots of issues he also doesn't get what he deserves from it. Such as him cheating on his wife with Mythre, hurt Daisy a lot. Plus the fact that at the end he doesn't get any real consequences. When Tom decided to go forward with cheating on his wife not only does he hurt Daisy he also …show more content…

In that quote it talks about Tom being stubborn because Daisy wants Gatsby, and Tom does not like it so he messes the carpool arrangement which later on will causes the death of a person and nobody looks at Tom negatively. Not only is there this situation but also this time “Self-control!” Repeated Tom incredulously. “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that’s the idea you can count me out. . . . (130). How this ties in with everything is that even tho Tom is cheating he gets frustrated when Daisy starts to like Gatsby so he bad talks Gatsby to Daisy so he gets her back even tho he does bed stuff behind everyone backs. The last quote describes how Tom does get off completely free with no consequences and that is. “I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (180) The quote explains how Tom by the end of the book does a variety of awful things to people but doesn't quite get what he should from

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Tom Buchanan, is the husband of Daisy in F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby that has a big lack of morality throughout the book. Tom has a cruel; strong body tone and he lives in East Egg. In the novel, Tom Buchanan takes the role of the antagonist because he prevents Jay Gatsby from living happily ever after. This is in two ways first it's in Gatsby's head which happens throughout most of the book and then by actually denying him from being with Daisy and he also takes actions which lead to Gatsby's death. Tom Buchanan is first introduced as an excellent sportsman but he's wealthy, restless, and cruel, which is a terrible combination.

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