This showed the compassion that he held for people that he doesn't even know.

             In contrast to Hemingway, Fitzgerald's characters were primarily thinking of themselves and what they could gain without thinking twice about whom they might be hurting. Firstly, in the novel The Great Gatsby Tom abused his wife, "Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand." (Gatsby, 41) This shows how thoughtless and hurtful Tom could be toward his wife. Also Tom cheated on his wife throughout the whole novel showing that he had no real compassion for his wife or the vows of his marriage. These actions prove that Tom had no respect for his wife and show that he was a very inconsiderate person. Tom also portrayed himself as a very inconsiderate man when he said, "just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are."(Gatsby, 11) This shows that he had to prove that he could overpower Nick at any time if he felt like it. Furthermore, he shows no compassion for Nick's self esteem and threw it in Nick's face.

             Another character in the novel, The Great Gatsby was a character named Jay Gatsby. Jay was a very mysterious man. Throughout the whole novel he was very discreet with getting phone calls from people that he didn't care to talk to in front of anybody. Jay's first sign of showing no compassion was when he started to get close to his old flame, Daisy. He showed no regards that she was married to Tom, and that she might be totally in love with Tom. During his pursuit of Daisy he found nothing wrong with waking one of his servants from their sleep to play the piano for Daisy. The servant didn't play very well, but Gatsby proceeded anyway, " 'I'm all out of practice, you see. I told you I couldn't play. I'm all out of prac---' 'Don't talk so much old sport,' commanded Gatsby. 'Play!'"(Great Gatsby, 100) This just shows how inconsiderate Gatsby was to other people when he wants something.