Compare And Contrast Tom And Wilson

His actions show that he is not loyal nor respectful towards Daisy, instead displaying apathy and disinterest. In addition to acting uncompassionate towards Daisy, he is also not taking into consideration Myrtle’s feelings. In fact, he lies to her in order to stop himself from being forced into a committed relationship. This lie that Tom tells Myrtle is not only extremely false, but also shows he is simply using her. “It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a Catholic, and they don’t believe in divorce” (Fitzgerald 33). Tom lying to Myrtle shows he has no intention of marrying her, instead he only wants to take advantage of her vulnerable state. Myrtle is unhappy and desperate to fulfill her dream of moving up social classes. Instead of acting sympathetically towards her situation, he exploits her weakness. Likewise, Daisy and Gatsby’s affair shows similar exploitation for one’s own personal needs over the emotions of their counterpart. Without Tom’s knowledge, Daisy has an affair with her long lost love, Gatsby. Then they sauntered over to my house and sat on the steps for half an hour… (Fitzgerald 105). During this affair Daisy shows no acknowledgement of Tom’s feelings, the man she married and pledged to be loyal to. At the same time, she is also exploiting Gatsby. Authors say, “...his desire to marry Daisy as an attempt to enter/create

Tom, Nick, and Jordan arrived to Wilson’s Garage Myrtle had already been killed by the car. When Tom saw that his mistress had been killed he was distraught. When he was “comforting” George, he was really manipulating him into killing Gatsby. Before he goes to kill Tom, he thinks that the yellow car that killed Myrtle was Tom’s. “‘How do you like this one?”’ inquired Tom. “‘I bought it last week’” (Fitzgerald). Tom made Wilson think that he owned the yellow car. But when the yellow car was used to kill Myrtle, Tom’s story completely changed. When George goes to kill Tom, Tom tells him “I was bringing you coupe we’ve been talking about. That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn’t mine - do you hear? I haven't seen it all afternoon”(Fitzgerald). He then proceeds to tell George that Gatsby owns the yellow car. Which in turn causes George to want to kill Gatsby. Tom not only used his words to manipulate Tom, he even had a plan from the beginning to kill

In the Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan and George Wilson are both bad men. They get cheated on by their wives, Daisy and Myrtle. Though people are placed in different economic classes or defined as “poor” or “rich” in the 1920’s, it doesn’t change the reaction or emotion of women/men in these difficult situations. Though Tom Buchanan and George Wilson are in different economic classes, they are more similar than different when it comes to their attitudes and actions toward their wives when being cheated on. Some of the men’s actions are different while some show the stereotype of men in the 1920’s.

Myrtle Wilson, Mr. Buchanan's mistress. Tom Buchanan showed the first signs of his reckless behavior in just the second chapter (pg. 29) of the novel when he "broke her nose with an open hand." My other example would also be found in chapter two (pg.27.) which is the fact that Tom had been somewhat leading Mrs. Wilson on by making her believe that he would marry her and run away West. Myrtle's sister, Catherine, states that, "It's really his wife that's keeping them apart. She's Catholic and they don't believe in divorce." Nick then goes on to say, “Daisy was not Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.” This shows how Tom was using Myrtle without a care in the world, stringing her emotions along as if it were a game. My third and final reason to support Nick’s opinion is how Mr. Buchanan set Gatsby up to be killed. Although he was Myrtle’s secret lover, he led her husband to believe that Jay Gatsby was the one who wrecked his marriage, or as some would say “happy home”. After the death of his wife, Mr. Wilson was determined to find out who owned the yellow car that had killed his wife. He was angry and intoxicated the night he went to find his wife’s murderer. In chapter nine (pg.121), Tom stated that he had told Mr. Wilson,” What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him.” Indicating that he had, in fact, told Mr. Wilson that Gatsby had murdered his wife when that

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson have many similarities and many differences. Both women are unhappy with their lives, both are greedy, but both women live very different lives. Both Myrtle and Daisy are unhappy with their lives and try to escape from them. Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson are also very greedy people in similar, but also in different ways. These women do whatever they want at the risk of their own lives as well as other people’s lives. Nick states, “They were careless people…” (Fitzgerald 179). The lives of Daisy and Myrtle are at the same time very different, almost opposite, even. Daisy and Myrtle are both selfish people who do not care about how they are affecting others,

Because Tom was fearful of Daisy leaving him for Gatsby, so he had to think of a way to get rid of him for good. For example, Tom persuaded Wilson to kill Gatsby for killing Myrtle and just leaving her on the road without stopping to help. Tom’s ignorance to Daisy and Gatsby lead to no conflicts because he was not feeling nervous of Daisy leaving him. Tom not being ignorant about the whole truth caused him to tell Wilson what he should with Gatsby. Because he knew with Gatsby gone there was no chance of Daisy leaving him, which was something he did not want, especially losing her to

The author enforces Tom as a character foil to Wilson to prove that Wilson is merely a piece of Tom’s game, who willingly and blindly places his faith on untrustworthy liabilities like the blue coupe. Critics like O’Meara identify Wilson and Gatsby as separate from Tom as she describes, “Wilson and Gatsby are indifferent ... but they make the mistake of seeing material possessions rather than themselves as the best means for attracting and keeping their women” (O’Meara). Unlike Gatsby’s motives that surround an unattainable dream, Wilson’s hopes are uncorrupt. By obtaining the blue coupe he is able to reimage himself to escape the harshness of the past. However, Myrtle's death instigates Wilson into a state beyond caring about the blue coupe and Tom heartlessly responds, “Wreck!” Said Tom. “That’s good. Willson’ll have a little business at last” (137). Unaware who was involved in the crash and unfazed by a possible death, the author reveals Tom’s insensitivity toward people as a whole. The fact that he perceives this event as benefiting Wilson, highlights his heartless nature and the author draws parallels between cars and

He first displays the same tendencies of character by how Daisy and him were "talking intensely across the table" where he put his hand as it "covered her own" to show his dominance over the situation after Myrtle was killed as a way of handling the problem, and making her feel safe enough with him instead of Gatsby (144). There is also another indication, Tom not morally changing by how they "left no address" or way to "reach them" right after Tom had given up Gatsby's location to Wilson (164). Being that there was no way to reach them, it reveals how Tom had no remorse over the fact that he knew that Wilson was killing him, and that he just left without bothering to see the result of the incident. It is apparent that Tom moreover, does not change when he runs into Nick on the street and he is still walking "in his alert, aggressive way" to block others out, retreating "back into [his] money" and dominating position to cover up any vulnerability that could be seen through his body language (178,179). Lastly, Tom does not change his morals, although he "sat down and cried like a baby" when myrtle died, he still told Wilson where Gatsby was located, where he believed "the fellow had it coming to him" (178,179). It was hard for Tom to move past losing his mistress, but his overall attitude towards others say he found to be beneath them self did not change nor did

First of all, The Buchanans, are having many problems and are very unsatisfied with their lives. Daisy is not happy with her relationship with Tom. We do not find this out till the end of the book that she is in love with Gatsby. Daisy is also unsatisfied with Tom's actions. He was not at the hospital when her daughter was born , and he continuously leaves her alone to go on with other mistresses. Daisy is so disgusted with him, she finds him revolting after being embarrassed by him everywhere she goes. Tom is also unsatisfied with his relationship, in the book Jordan Baker says “ That’s Tom’s girl on the telephone, ”(Fitzgerald 116). Throughout the book Tom has been cheating on Daisy with mistresses, the main one being Myrtle. The fact that Tom is cheating in the first place shows he is not the happiest with Daisy. Daisy knows on the phone Myrtle is sometimes on the other line, leading her to fall for Gatsby harder. Both Daisy and Tom do not have those true feelings for one another, leading for both to be unhappy and unsatisfied in their own marriage. Being this unhappy, causes for other people to think they had chances with both Tom and Daisy and for those significant others, to be out for mostly Tom but Daisy as well. The amount of anger that comes from how unsatisfied they are leads, to Myrtle and Gatsby both being

Both Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan are similar in their amount of wealth, but are viewed differently by their community. Tom believes himself to belong to a superior class because he was born into money and in contrast, Gatsby, took part in illegal business dealings to achieve his wealth. Their differences are evident in the location of where they live. East Egg is where people that have been born into money live like Tom, while Jay Gatsby lives in West Egg where people of entrepreneurial success live. “I lived at West Egg, the-well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them…Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.” (Fitzgerald, 5) Tom cheats on Daisy with Myrtle, yet he can’t accept why Daisy would cheat on him with Gatsby since he is of a higher social class than Gatsby, and it would be degrading for Daisy. “‘She’s not leaving me!’ Tom’s words suddenly leaned down over Gatsby. ‘Certainly not for a common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he put on her finger.’” (Fitzgerald, 133) Another difference between

Toms respect towards girls is a lot different than Wilson's. in the book "The Great Gatsby" Wilsons never hit a girl, he yelled at Myrtle, but that is because he knew she was having an affair. Wilson was a hard-working man, and never really had time to show "love" to Myrtle. Tom, when he was home, the phone always rang, and he would say "can't talk now", Daisy soon caught on. But tom still has shown her love, hell they had a kid together.

In the beginning George Wilson does not know that his wife myrtle is secretly in love with Tom Buchanan, but as the story of the Great Gatsby goes on George Wilson soon finds out that the women that he loves does not love him in return. When George Wilson finds this out he seems to be very angered, but sad at the same time, he does not know what to do because of this. The reason that George Wilson and Tom Buchanan become violent with each other is because of myrtle. Myrtle is an instigator, she makes everything worse than it actually is, and makes things get way out of

For starters, one similarity in the backgrounds of Wilson and Castle are that the both of them lost their families. Wilsons’ son lost his voice to an enemy mercenary, and his wife divorced him. Castle lost his wife and children in a shot out at New York park during a picnic. Wilson and castle have both experience in the military. Wilson sharpen his skills and during his time in service. Castle gained and mastered his combat skills during his time during his service.

In the Buchanan household, which has been relocated several times to escape the bad publicity wrought by affairs, this kind of behavior is to be expected, showing how even the educated upper class is unable to escape the corruption of America, and what it stands for. The general lack of concern for affairs continues when Gatsby believes that he can turn back the clock and rekindle what he and Daisy once had. Gatsby not only hopes that Daisy will wait for him, but expects it, scoffing at Nick’s assertion that things have changed over time, and that Daisy is now married and a with a child and therefore uninterested in him: “Can’t repeat the past?...Why of course you can!” (116). Gatsby believes that Daisy will be willing to give up what she has for him, building his whole life on the assumption that she will be willing to forget all she has for him. This attitude of indifference for marriage is mimicked in the actions of Tom as well as Myrtle Wilson, showing that it may be widely held. Tom takes advantage of Wilson, replying to Nick’s concerns by simply saying that Mr. Wilson “thinks [Myrtle] goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive” (30). Myrtle’s ability to easily lie to her husband shows that the marital corruption of the upper class is prevalent in the lower classes as well. Fitzgerald uses the diverse characters, from the removed yet decidedly elite character of

As Myrtle’s relationship with George Wilson deteriorates and she is disenchanted with his limited lifestyle, she desires more and thus when she meets Tom he offers her this. In some distorted way, Myrtle thinks that Tom will leave his beautiful wife Daisy and marry her, Tom doesn’t truly see the relationship between Myrtle and himself being a true relationship, he just believes she is someone he can call upon unannounced and use her for a sexual relationship. But Myrtle has other plans for the two of them. This is made clear when he breaks Myrtle’s nose we she mentioned his wife’s name: “‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ shouted Mrs. Wilson. ‘I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy Dai-‘Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald, 1926)This harsh action implied by Tom, really puts Mrs. Wilson in her place, making her come to her sense of what she can and cannot say. This reaction from Tom signifies that it is not a pure love existing between them. Further, Myrtle’s desire for the material goods Tom can provide shapes her conception of their alleged love, which is evidently greatly distorted as shown through Tom’s treatment of her.