From the minute Tom was introduced, his cards were already on the table. Fitzgerald made Tom a disloyal, stubborn, wealthy, and arrogant man. Throughout the story Tom’s personality just got worse and worse. Tom is cheating on Daisy with a mechanic’s wife named Myrtle Wilson. Fitzgerald used Tom as a way to show the reader how much darkness could fit into one single character. Both corruption and hypocrisy flowed through Tom’s veins.Tom saw no problem with having an affair with Myrtle, but the minute Gatsby steps into the picture, it’s unacceptable. While on their way to town, Tom rants to Nick and Jordan which only proves his hypocrisy and absurdity. Tom covers up his jealousy with nonchalance and says,"Self-control!" Repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out […] Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and fam institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.” Fitzgerald made Tom to show that some can do but not take. He wanted the reader to know that even a fun wealthy tycoon can have a dark side underneath all that
From the minute Tom was introduced, his cards were already on the table. Fitzgerald made Tom a disloyal, stubborn, wealthy, and arrogant man. Throughout the story Tom’s personality just got worse and worse. Tom is cheating on Daisy with a mechanic’s wife named Myrtle Wilson. Fitzgerald used Tom as a way to show the reader how much darkness could fit into one single character. Both corruption and hypocrisy flowed through Tom’s veins.Tom saw no problem with having an affair with Myrtle, but the minute Gatsby steps into the picture, it’s unacceptable. While on their way to town, Tom rants to Nick and Jordan which only proves his hypocrisy and absurdity. Tom covers up his jealousy with nonchalance and says,"Self-control!" Repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out […] Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and fam institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.” Fitzgerald made Tom to show that some can do but not take. He wanted the reader to know that even a fun wealthy tycoon can have a dark side underneath all that