Tom Buchanan's bad character is established when he is introduced for the first time. He has a "hard mouth", "arrogant eyes", "a supercilious manner", and seems to always "lean aggressively forward" (11). Nick even feels that Tom would say something extremely condescending when he sees him on his front porch: "'Now don't think my opinion on thes

By the end of the book, there are three deaths - that of Myrtle, Wilson, and Gatsby. Tom is the cause of all of these deaths, both indirectly, and directly. He is the person who tells Wilson who owns the car that killed Myrtle, making the assumption that it is Gatsby who drove it. Later, when Nick runs into Tom, he still holds on to the idea that he did the right thing: "'He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owned the car...' He said defiantly. 'What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him.'"(187) He doesn't seem to realize that if it were just an accident, Wilson would not have gone and killed the driver for revenge. He seems ignorant of the fact that Wilson wanted revenge on the man who had the affair with his wife, which is Tom himself. The night of Myrtle's death, Wilson does a lot of thinking and pieces together many events to figure out that his wife has been having an affair, and gets more and more distraught with every thought:

Wilson makes the fateful connection between Myrtle's death and her affair, and believes that the other man has no remorse harming her, since he has already done so before, by breaking her nose. However, if Tom does hold that knowledge, then he has done a great job hiding his malicious intents to put all the blame on Gatsby. He thinks that his actions are justified even though they have caused the deaths of two people. Nick also notices his ignorance, "... what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed things and creatures and then retreated into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made..." (187-188). Gatsby and Wilson are the ones who have to clean up Tom's mess this time.

Furthermore, Daisy does some more unusual things when they are in East Egg at their house. One can even say that she is the person that creates the whole confrontation between Gatsby and Tom. When they are at the house, she basically says "I love you" to Gatsby when they are at the house and start staring at each other after she says, "'You look so cool... You always look so cool.'" (125) Then, when Tom offers to take her to town in Gatsby's car, she slips our from under his arm, and goes to ride alone with Gatsby. "She walked close to Gatsby, touching his coat with her hand." (128) She more or less declares to Tom that there is something happening between her and Gatsby. What does she want to accomplish by doing this? There could be two reasons-one is that she wants to make Tom jealous, and two is that she really thinks she loves Gatsby at this point. In either case, she doesn't foresee what the con

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Approximate Word count = 1849
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)