The Great Gatsby is one of F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpieces, and Tom Buchanan, one of the novel's characters, plays an important role in the development of the plot and narrative that cannot be overlooked. Gatsby and Tom Buchanan appear in the novel as natural opposites, from Gatsby’s perspective, they are diametrically opposed and very different. "The white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water," The author uses the literary device of adjective. The word 'glittered' implies that Tom is extremely wealthy, so wealthy that ordinary people cannot fathom such a situation. Normal people’s houses will not be 'glittered,' and will not have a lake in front of it, demonstrating how wealthy he truly is. Because Tom Buchanan inherited a wealthy estate, extravagance, and ostentation doomed the final fall. Although hereditary wealth is appealing and millionaires are wealthy, they should recognize that wealth is not easily obtained and should live a simple and modest life. Tom Buchanan clearly belongs to the second one; he has long forgotten that wealth comes from his family, not him has long been addicted to hypocrisy, …show more content…
Saying that they’re on the same level, however, they are not the same kind of people. Tom Buchanan, from his college days as a football player to his current polo player, sports-life-wealth appears to be a consistent pattern in his life, he keeps moving around, but the places he moves are always where the rich or polo existed. Tom Buchanan's naturally idle class militant nature made him appear unusually violent and in a constant state of warlike readiness. This shaped his rough-and-tumble