Secondly, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s modernist novel titled The Great Gatsby follows the antagonist called Tom Buchanan as he commits deadly sins of wrath and pride and lust. According to Oxford-Online Dictionary,“antagonist” is defined as,“A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary”(https://en.oxforddictionaries.com). In other words, an antagonist is a person who offers opposition to the protagonist. Tom Buchanan is the antagonist in the novel titled The Great Gatsby. He is Daisy’s husband who is arrogant, brutish, hubristic and materialistic. Tom is described as "one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterwards savours of anti-climax"(Fitzgerald10). That
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This illustrates “women have words. Men have fists”(http://www.shmoop.com). He breaks his mistress’s nose just because she speaks and repeats his wife’s name. This shows that Tom views Myrtle much differently from the way he views his wife. He is elitist, and so he treats his wife, who is of much higher worth and value, much better than he treats his mistress, who is of a lower social class and is relatively poor. Daisy is indispensable to him while Myrtle is very much replaceable. There will always be women lining up to be with Tom because he is so rich and young and handsome. His explosive anger is seen by all the people in the apartment. He is a man who is easy to get angry and even pouches his mistress just to release his anger emotion without thinking of the consequence that may harm his reputation. The third example is the presence of his pride. Pride is the unreasonable and inordinate personal worth or confidence. The first time that Tom and Daisy and Nick have lunch togetherTom thinks of himself and east egg is better than everyone else. He thinks East Egg is above because it means he was born from
This illustrates “women have words. Men have fists”(http://www.shmoop.com). He breaks his mistress’s nose just because she speaks and repeats his wife’s name. This shows that Tom views Myrtle much differently from the way he views his wife. He is elitist, and so he treats his wife, who is of much higher worth and value, much better than he treats his mistress, who is of a lower social class and is relatively poor. Daisy is indispensable to him while Myrtle is very much replaceable. There will always be women lining up to be with Tom because he is so rich and young and handsome. His explosive anger is seen by all the people in the apartment. He is a man who is easy to get angry and even pouches his mistress just to release his anger emotion without thinking of the consequence that may harm his reputation. The third example is the presence of his pride. Pride is the unreasonable and inordinate personal worth or confidence. The first time that Tom and Daisy and Nick have lunch togetherTom thinks of himself and east egg is better than everyone else. He thinks East Egg is above because it means he was born from