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How Does Tom Buchanan Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

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“It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other race will have control,” Tom (13/3)
Do you ever think about how your little group could possibly be washed out by someone else? No? Me neither, but you know who feared it the most? Tom Buchanan. He panicked that another race, like a whole other group of people would kill his off. It’s pretty much like a bad episode of The Walking Dead if I do say so myself. In the following few paragraphs I’ll be discussing how Tom feared the worst and how he continuously cheated, what a great guy right?

“Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward,” (1/19) Tom is brought up to be masculine, aggressive, and most importantly dangerous. In The Great Gatsby, we get a more in depth look into Tom Buchanan's physical features than we ever did of Gatsby or Nick, weird right? This leaves little to no room to ever see Tom in a different light- and in fact, all other descriptions continue to show Tom as the big and strong person we all know, and maybe love. …show more content…

The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.” (1/78) This speaks to Tom’s insecurity- even as someone born into incredible money and privilege, there’s a fear that it could be taken away in a bad way, or by social climbers. That insecurity only translates into even more as to show his power- flaunting his relationship with Myrtle, and exposing Gatsby as a

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