Tom And Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tom and Daisy Buchanan are rich people that play a major role in the book The Great Gatsby. A major flaw with these characters is that both of them are careless. They are often the source of the conflicts in the story and let other people resolve the problems the create. Due to their money and status, Tom and Daisy are reckless and don’t have to care about what they do or say. Tom cheats on his wife many times, and his previous mistress was Myrtle Wilson. Tom’s carelessness is apparent when Daisy shows understanding of his unfaithfulness. He doesn’t take the precautions to make sure his wife does not find out about the affair. Even while around his mistress and her friends, he is reckless. While Myrtle is chanting Daisy’s name, Tom makes a “...short deft movement…” and “...broke [Myrtle’s] nose with his open hand.” (Fitzgerald 41). Tom, in front of a large group of people, harms Myrtle for saying his wife’s name. Tom is careless with he does to his mistress because he knows he can get away with it. Myrtle is lower

Even though Daisy is married, she begins to cheat with Gatsby. This ultimately leads to the confrontatin between Tom and Gatsby. Daisy is initially careless when she makes it clear to Tom that she wants to be alone with Gatsby. Similarly to Tom, Daisy does not take the precautions to make sure that her husband doesn’t find out about her affair. During the confrontation, Gatsby tries to get Daisy to say she never loved Tom. She reluctantly obliges, then yells at Gatsby, “‘I love you now-isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.’” (Fitzgerald 140). Daisy married Tom when Gatsby went to war, so she had to have loved Tom at some point. She knew that Gatsby had an obsession with her, due to all of the items he had relating to her. Daisy’s carelessness gets her backed into a corner during a confrontation between the two men she