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How Does Tom Build Tension In The Great Gatsby

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" The Great Gatsby " is set during the 1920s and is based on is wife Zelda Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby captures love in its many forms from its selfishness to its most hopeful moments. This novel portrays so many lessons about life and how love can make you do crazy things. In this novel, Tom and Gatsby who come from two total different backgrounds compete for the love of their life. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates tension between Tom ad Gatsby because of how different they are.

Tom and Gatsby both love Daisy, but only one of them can have her. In chapter 7, Gatsby says, " Just tell him the truth, that you never loved him." Gatsby was trying to make Daisy say something when he did not even know if she really did love him or not. While all this is going on Tom starts to get mad, but he is still having an affair with Myrtle Wilson so its obvious he does not care about Daisy's feelings. Daisy would be better off with Gatsby because he actually cares about her and makes sure he shows it. Tom makes it like he does not care about Daisy and their marriage until he finds out that Gatsby and Daisy love each other. Then Tom tries to get Daisy to say she loves him and Tom says that he is going to start treating …show more content…

Tom's background is the total opposite from Gatsby's. Tom comes from a wealthy family unlike Gatsby who lied about his background and Tom even hired someone to investigate Gatsby so he could catch him in his lie. Tom is nosey, rude, racist, and a hypocrite. During the novel, Tom has an affair with Myrtle Wilson and he shows her off and even brings Nick to meet her which was really weird because that's Daisy's cousin so why would Tom want Nick to know about her. If Tom really cared about Daisy he would of treated her better from the start not of waited till he noticed someone else had her attention. Tom does not deserve Daisy due to his

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When Gatsby’s name is brought up Daisy becomes uncharacteristically outspoken, “‘Gatsby?’ demanded Daisy. ‘What Gatsby?’”(page 14) this is foreshadowing of a preexisting relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. Furthermore, When the four sit down to dinner their conversation shows how prejudice and hypocritical Tom is. First, get a phone call that he answers from his mistress.

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(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.

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Despite Daisy marrying Tom; Gatsby still has an equally strong passion for her. Another reason why Tom could be jealous of Gatsby is because how much Gatsby and Daisy love each other. Tom could feel jealous of this. We can tell that Gatsby knows this because of a quote where he admits to Nick “I wanted someone who wouldn’t gossip. Daisy comes quite often in the afternoons” If there was nothing going on between Gatsby and Daisy Gatsby wouldn’t be afraid of this.

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The actions Tom takes near the end of the story show how hypocritical Tom really is. For some reason, Tom is irritated that Gatsby and Daisy seem to have feelings for each other, but his affair with Myrtle is completely fine with him. To Tom, there is nothing wrong with him cheating on Daisy, but Daisy wanting to be with Gatsby is a horrid thing, even

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