In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The great gatsby, there in no clean cut evil character like there might be in another novel. Yet, that said there is a character who has evil or immoral intentions, Tom Buchanan. Tom is all around bruting and aggressive, even down his physical description. Although not necessarily evil toms horrible actions hurt many people around him especially his wife. The first introductions of tom was given by his long time college friend, which we would hope to be a trusted and honest description. Yet his long time friend describes his as having arrogant eyes, always having the appearance of leaning aggressively forward and having an enormous cruel body (fitzgerald 7). Tom is described from the start as nothing but an …show more content…
Not only does Tom snap at her by answering impatiently to her questions he looks are her with impersonal eyes (fitzgerald 12). Tom makes daisy feel like less of a person. He is openly having an affair with a woman and he has no intentions of hiding hit from anyone especially Daisy. Tom having this affair right in front of his wife or just having the affair in general shows his lack of respect for not only daisy but women in general. But on the smaller scale daisy feels like she is less a woman and not good enough for tom leading her to think this way for her daughter. Arguably one of the most powerful quotes in the book daisy states, “ I hope she’ll be a fool— that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald 17). Daisy’s newborn baby girl already had this mentality of not being good enough and that’s she is less than men. The way daisy has been treated for the last few years of her life by Tom has made her lose hope that she or any girl, especially her daughter, could be happy and confident in the world. Tom has directly lead to daisy lack of self confidence and a pessimistic view on