In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Tom Buchanan believes that he is above others around him just because he was born with a silver spoon in a white family, who grew up to play college football, an example of this would be, on page 10, the narrator says, “Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence for some irrecoverable football game.” This proves that Tom Buchanan still dreams and looks back on the years that he played college football, because of this. He believes he walks above everyone else, holds a higher vote than everyone else, just because he is a white male living in the 1920s, the “prime” of discrimination against anyone who wasn’t White nor Male. This making Tom Buchanan a