There are a few distinct characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” who are vastly similar to one another in some sort of way. Tom Buchanan and Curley are two perfect examples. Both men love to take control of weaker people, they’re overly confident and cocky, treat women like objects or toys, and they’re extremely racist. Tom Buchanan is a very cocky, arrogant rich man that loves to show off how much money he has to anyone that happens to come his way, he’s also married to Daisy Buchanan. “I’ve got a nice place here” (Fitzgerald 7) from this quote of the book, it is easy to see how cocky Tom actually is most people wouldn't say how nice their house is when they invite someone over.
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One thing I can say is that they both treat their wives like they are objects that they want to show off Tom more than Curley and they control them. “ Well I tell ya what- Curley says he’s keepin that hand soft for his wife” (Steinbeck 27) from this I’m guessing he keeps his hand soft just so he can touch his wife how he wants to. Curley also does’nt like for other men to see his wife since she is the only women on the farm so he keeps her isolated from everyone else. Even though he says he keeps his hand soft for his wife, he still goes to the local Whorehouse every Saturday in a way he is technically cheating on his wife. Tom like Curley does end up cheating on his wife with a local women he knows. “That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big hulking physical specimen”, “I hate the word hulking,” objected Tom (Fitzgerald 12) in a way he knows that he can get Daisy to stop calling him hulky by saying it sterelny like a parent has to do to their kid. Another comparison is how overly confident they are. They both think that they’re like by many people when in reality not everyone is a big fan of them. This one mostly implies to Tom than it does Curley. Tom is very confident in himself that he can get Daisy to whatever he wants, Curley isn’t like that he knows he can get his wife to do whatever he …show more content…
I believe this is why some men were like this back in the days because women didn’t work and they were their caretakers or they grew up believing that they were or had to be these things to be considered a man. Living in this generation now I don’t think boys and men are like this unless they believe in this sort of thing. I know around this time period women were considered weak so that made it easier for men to think they were tougher than
One thing I can say is that they both treat their wives like they are objects that they want to show off Tom more than Curley and they control them. “ Well I tell ya what- Curley says he’s keepin that hand soft for his wife” (Steinbeck 27) from this I’m guessing he keeps his hand soft just so he can touch his wife how he wants to. Curley also does’nt like for other men to see his wife since she is the only women on the farm so he keeps her isolated from everyone else. Even though he says he keeps his hand soft for his wife, he still goes to the local Whorehouse every Saturday in a way he is technically cheating on his wife. Tom like Curley does end up cheating on his wife with a local women he knows. “That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big hulking physical specimen”, “I hate the word hulking,” objected Tom (Fitzgerald 12) in a way he knows that he can get Daisy to stop calling him hulky by saying it sterelny like a parent has to do to their kid. Another comparison is how overly confident they are. They both think that they’re like by many people when in reality not everyone is a big fan of them. This one mostly implies to Tom than it does Curley. Tom is very confident in himself that he can get Daisy to whatever he wants, Curley isn’t like that he knows he can get his wife to do whatever he …show more content…
I believe this is why some men were like this back in the days because women didn’t work and they were their caretakers or they grew up believing that they were or had to be these things to be considered a man. Living in this generation now I don’t think boys and men are like this unless they believe in this sort of thing. I know around this time period women were considered weak so that made it easier for men to think they were tougher than