The Values Of Tom Buchman

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As introduced thus far, Tom Buchman is a man who holds seemingly three main values. The first pertains to his looks, of which he is very big and muscular and wears very tight shirts that reveal his muscles even though the clothes are feminine he still portrays a very strong masculine sense. The next thing is his money, he seems to be very precarious about business deals and makes sure that he has a lot of income. The third is his women in New York, since apparently it is rude to answer a phone during dinner but Tom goes ahead and answers the phone anyways. The author, depicts Tom as being extremely white, he plays polo, and the author really emphasized how he felt that Tom was the more dominant of the two. Nick seems to judge people extremely

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