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Tom Buchanan Character Analysis Essay

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Character Development:
Tom Buchanan
We see a more manipulative, untruthful side to tom, along with his usual desire for control. He’s lying to both Daisy and Myrtle to keep them both at his side. Catherine starts talking about Tom and Myrtle saying, “Neither of them can stand the person they’re married to” (Fitzgerald 33). She continues saying, “Its really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a catholic, they don’t believe in divorce” (Fitzgerald 33) Nick, knowing Daisy, notices some faults in this statement as he tells the reader, “Daisy was not catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of this lie”
This leads us to believe that tom really didn’t have any plans at all to divorce Daisy or marry Myrtle. Tom manipulated …show more content…

Tom clearly does love Daisy, or at the least, respects her to some extent, and doesn’t feel the need to leave her, this being evident when Myrtle comes in the room saying, “Daisy, Daisy, Daisy” and Tom, slaps her face, breaking her nose with the sharp movement. If he truly didn’t have any feelings for Daisy, or any plans on leaving her, he would not have hit his mistress for mentioning her name.
Nick Caraway
He’s acting somewhat out of character and seems to be easily persuaded.
Throughout the night of the gathering, and even before than, Nick shows signs that he is changing to fit in with the company he is with. We know from the text that Nick rarely got drunk before this night, this being evident when he (the narrator) says,
“I have been drunk just twice in my life and the second time was that afternoon. . .” (Fitzgerald 29)

So, one might assume that he is changing to fit in and feel less out of place or he doesn’t particularly like the company he is with, so he could be drinking to numb his senses or even feel less bored, or he might have lost track of how much he had drunk because he actually had an okay time. Whatever the reason, the fact that he did get drunk seems out of his

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