“Home is where the heart is” - Pliny the Elder. Ann of “Homeless” defines her home by how much she loves it, no matter how flawed it is: “I love my home with a ferocity totally out of proportion to its appearance or location. I love dumb things about it…” She values the nuisances in her home, such as “the roof over my [Ann] head, which occasionally leaks.” The home is defined by one’s emotional attachment to where they live, regardless of the annoyances brought with it. In contrast, Tom Buchanan interprets a home as a place where he can show-off his riches. The only details that Nick mentions about Tom’s house are how elaborate and wealthy everything in his house seems; Nick never references any meaning connected to the items in Tom’s
