What Does Tom Buchanan Mean In The Great Gatsby

"If you can dream it, you can do it" - Walt Disney. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his novel The Great Gatsby to disprove this quote. The characters Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan differ from each other from the fact that one flaunts his money to achieve his dream, while the other wants to be the wealthiest, with the items that a high ranking member of society would have. The Great Gatsby shows its readers that not every dream is achievable. In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Tom Buchanan for old money, and Gatsby for new money to create a narrative that old money people are violent and arrogant, and new money are hopeful dreamers. Tom Buchanan is used as a symbol of the east egg and how they haven't had to work for a dime and have advantages no one else has.

Tom has had an enormous amount of money since college and has been able to do anything he wants with it, even. Though he hasn’t worked a single job in his life, he gets to act like he is better than everybody else. Although Tom’s money is legal, Jay Gatsby was tired of working to try to get rich, and took the illegal method of getting rich. Gatsby is known for throwing luxurious parties every Saturday, but nobody knew how or when he got this money, making him a mysterious man.Tom wanted to get to the bottom of where Gatsby got this money, so he did some research and found out, “He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn’t far wrong”(Fitzgerald 143). Gatsby was so stuck on getting back with Daisy that he would do anything to get a lot of money, so he was willing to do illegal