What Are The Similarities Between Tom Buchanan And George Wilson

Deciding to be a terrible person is an easy choice for some, and isn’t for others. In the book, “The Great Gatsby” two men with interconnecting lives both go down a rabbit hole of terrible choices, and these men are Tom Buchanan and George Wilson. These two men are different and similar in a multitude of ways, which includes the different lives they lead and the semi-similar experience they had with their wives. I will be focusing on the issues of the choices these men make and the way their lives turn out in the ending of the book, such as the cheating scandal with their wives, and the many unnecessary deaths that occurred in the book. To recap my main goals of this essay, I will be writing about the similarities and differences in the lives

Both of these men experienced their wives cheating on them, little did George Wilson know that it was with someone he knew fairly well. “Your wife doesn’t love you,” said Gatsby. “She’s never loved you. She loves me.” (Gatsby 130). This evidence supports my thesis because it’s the moment where Gatsby confirms his affair with Daisy and the moment where Tom receives actual confirmation that Daisy was cheating on Tom with Gatsby. This improves my argument because it really shows the depth of the affair and how this took a toll on Tom. “I just wised up to something funny the last two days,” remarked Wilson. “That’s why I want to get away. That’s why I been bothering you about the car.” (Wilson 124). This evidence supports my thesis because it tells us that Wilso now knows about his wife's affair with Tom, although he doesn’t know it’s Tom. This strengthens my thesis because it shows the depth of the affair and it shows Wilson’s mental state. In my next paragraph I will be speaking about the differences between Tom and

After the affair between Daisy and Gatsby, as well as Tom and Myrtle was discovered, Tom and George made different decisions in how they dealt with the affair. Tom and Daisy decided to move away with their daughter to avoid their problems and guilt and hide in their wealth, but George on the other hand made the terrible decision to take “justice” into his own hands. After Tom told George Gatsby was the one having the affair with Myrtle and is who ran Myrtle over, George decided to go to Gatsby’s house and shoot Gatsby which ended in his death, and proceeded to kill himself in the same fashion. “They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” (Carraway 154). This statement strengthens my thesis because it shows more differences between Tom and Wilson. It strengthens my argument because it shows that Tom and Daisy were cowards and just overall terrible people, and it shows how Tom led a different life than Wilson in the end. “It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete.” (Carraway 162). This evidence strengthens my thesis because it shows that Wilson was mentally unstable toward the end and ended up killing an innocent man and himself. It shows