Tom Buchanan depicts lust, greed, pride, and anger, which corrupts his character and causes him to lose his morality.
- Tom’s character shows lust by cheating on Daisy with his mistress Myrtle Wilson. Tom admits to his affair “once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself” This also shows greed (7.125)
- Myrtles sister whispers into Nicks ear that both Tom and Myrtle hate their spouses.
- This means that Tom told Myrtle lies to keep her around or to string her around.
- Tom shows greed in the form of another woman. It shows corruption because he is being disloyal. Tom uses his wealth as a reason for being disloyal. He knows he can get any woman because he has lots of money.
- Tom also shows pride. He thinks of himself and east egg is better then everyone else. He thinks east egg is above because it means he was born from money.
- “Its up to us, who are dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.” (1.18)
- It shows that Tom thinks he is better then other races because he thinks the “whites” should be dominant.
- Loses sense in pride when he sees that Daisy does in fact want Gatsby. He sees Gatsby as a threat because Gatsby had no money before and he knows Daisy would not leave him for someone poor, so he gets threated that now Gatsby has lots of money and Daisy wants Gatsby back.
- Tom also shows anger. He is hot tempered. Tom shows anger when he gets angry with Myrtle (his mistress) for repeating Daisy’s name over and over. He tells myrtle to stop saying her name but instead she repeats it again and again which angers Tom and he hits her and breaks her nose.
- Tom’s character shows lust by cheating on Daisy with his mistress Myrtle Wilson. Tom admits to his affair “once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself” This also shows greed (7.125)
- Myrtles sister whispers into Nicks ear that both Tom and Myrtle hate their spouses.
- This means that Tom told Myrtle lies to keep her around or to string her around.
- Tom shows greed in the form of another woman. It shows corruption because he is being disloyal. Tom uses his wealth as a reason for being disloyal. He knows he can get any woman because he has lots of money.
- Tom also shows pride. He thinks of himself and east egg is better then everyone else. He thinks east egg is above because it means he was born from money.
- “Its up to us, who are dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.” (1.18)
- It shows that Tom thinks he is better then other races because he thinks the “whites” should be dominant.
- Loses sense in pride when he sees that Daisy does in fact want Gatsby. He sees Gatsby as a threat because Gatsby had no money before and he knows Daisy would not leave him for someone poor, so he gets threated that now Gatsby has lots of money and Daisy wants Gatsby back.
- Tom also shows anger. He is hot tempered. Tom shows anger when he gets angry with Myrtle (his mistress) for repeating Daisy’s name over and over. He tells myrtle to stop saying her name but instead she repeats it again and again which angers Tom and he hits her and breaks her nose.
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