Compare And Contrast Tom Buchanan And Jay Gatsby

The characters, Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby have a lot of similarities but they also share many differences. Both Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby have an enormous amount of wealth but their personalities are very different from one another. The two characters use others for their own good. I will be comparing and contrasting these three topics in this essay.

The Roaring 20s, The Jazz age, the 1920s were a time of great prosperity in the United States. The 1920s were an era of change, both politically and socially. Americans began to move into cities, rather than living on farms, and the nation's wealth more than doubled. Buying the same goods, listening to the same music, dancing the same dances, and overall having the same values, people felt united. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, these values are reflected in the characters’ lifestyles. A recurring theme in the novel is that money cannot buy a person’s true happiness, and this theme is exhibited in the various characters actions, choices, and what they value most in their lives.

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience who you really are”,William Shakespeare. People get to really pick and chose who to let them see the real them and let them inside their true self it’s up to you to do so in the process. Also those who try to see the real you are people who want to experience you. Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan are very different.

Tom’s youth brims with privilege and worth, as he boasts an education from one of the most prestigious universities and is a respected figure in the world of college football. In fact, “among various physical accomplishments, [Tom] had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax” (6). However, his halcyon days of New Haven now in the past, Tom is depicted as agitated and uninterested. His life now reeks of “anticlimax” when compared to the glory of his Yale football career, and the threat of violence constantly awaits provocation within him. Moreover, Tom’s

The Characters in The Great Gatsby, By F. Scott Fitzgerald heavily relate to lines in Langston Hughes’, A Dream Deferred. Some of these characters that directly relate are Tom Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, and George Wilson. Tom Buchanan is the very wealthy husband of Daisy, he is arrogant, and expects more out of people than he gives to them. The line from the poem that best relates to him is “or fester like a sore” and this is because Tom is not treating the people in his life very well, causing it to fester (Hughes 3). An example of Tom treating people bad is him cheating on Daisy with Myrtle, and then accusing Daisy of cheating on him with Jay Gatsby, this makes Tom’s life more difficult and not work properly.

George Wilson and Tom Buchanan from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby are often perceived as two different character; however, they have various similarities as well. Tom and Mr. Wilson are both examples of how two men from completely opposite ends of society can experience the same difficulties. For example, both men’s wives were having an affair. Therefore, readers can assume that there marriages were unsatisfactory. Evidence of this exists in many petty arguments between Tom and Daisy, specifically one over the word “hulking”, as well as the fact that Myrtle, Mr. Wilson’s wife, dreamed of joining Tom’s social class. Another similarity is that Tom and Mr. Wilson both react positively when they discover the affair. Mr Wilson told Tom,

The nineteen twenties was a time of lavish parties, the stock market was on the rise and women such as flappers were gaining independence. Despite this, men at the time were still seen as superior and their brutish, abusive, and cheating was considered the norm. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Tom Buchanan and George Wilson are more similar than different, despite the money that determines their fate. This story reveals how Tom and George both have similar attitudes towards women and both are being cuckolded, the only thing that differentiates the two is money and power.

F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel,The Great Gatsby, two men Tom and Wilson have many similar features but they also have many different characteristics from one another although not as many. The first character,Tom Buchanan is a very wealthy man more so that even in college his situation with money was not a problem. His freedom with money was only a matter of reproach.He is the husband of daisy and has a daughter with her but doesn't seem to care about either of them he is the object of Gatsby's desire. George Wilson in the novel is seen as a slow man and often Referred to as dimwitted.He owns a garage shop and is married to myrtle, who is Tom's mistress on the side i think that Fitzgerald was trying to say that the nature of man was that man's sense of humanity can be blunted and distorted by artificial desires and misguided values. I think this is one of the messages of the novel. Gatsby almost literally loses himself in the pursuit of wealth. Daisy is prepared to leave her husband, in part, because Gatsby was better then tom buy the way he dressed.. Love becomes just another facet of the material fixations embodied in so many of the male characters characters.

Two characters that may have struck the audience to have nothing in common but internally have many similarities. They might have completely different actions in situations, different looks on the way of life, and different goal in the end of their time, but are very similar in certain aspects. These two characters are Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. Jay Gatsby is a middle aged man that came from nothing but has now has worked his way to have “everything.” He came from a poor family but became incredibly rich. He did not achieve his success in the best way, but he made it. He owns a huge mansion on West Egg that he would have never been able to afford in his past. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the story. So, the readers get to actually hear

The roaring 20’s was an extrodinary time, and F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the feeling in his book The Great Gatsby. Throughout the book many of the characters showed the importance of the 20’s through their differences and similarities. Two main male characters, Tom and Gatsby, were both different and similar in many ways. Tom and Gatsby were both liars, but they also loved Daisy, and they were different on how they lived.

According to Google, supercilious means “behaving or looking as though one is superior to others”. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom Buchanan has an extremely supercilious manner. When the narrator Nick first mentioned him, Tom was described as “a straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner” (7). Tom lives in East Egg, went to Yale, and is from ‘old money’. He believes he is superior and elite to everyone around him. This shows through in his arrogant manner. Tom’s supercilious nature results in him having an affair and acting disrespectfully towards his wife and marriage. As a consequence, people in Tom’s life are negatively and tragically

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald focuses on Daisy Buchanan’s relationship with Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Tom and Gatsby both love Daisy in different ways, but the fact that they both want Daisy as their own makes them similar. Both Tom and Gatsby share many similarities while having even a greater amount of differences. While differences are good, they sometimes lead to unhappiness, jealousy, and grief.

In the 1920’s, society underwent changes as the result of women's rights, prohibition, organized crime, and the infamous stock market crash of 1928. As women gained independant rights, men were furious about this despite the fact they had always been superior to women. In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby exemplify the treatment men had towards women in the 1920’s. Tom Buchanan, a prominent man who inherits his family’s wealth, is married to Daisy Buchanan, Tom takes advantage of his wife, by publicly taking other women out and treating them to his lavish lifestyle. Tom Buchanan will do anything to suppress his lovers to further the superiority he has over women. Fitzgerald’s use of Tom Buchanan

Tom Buchanan is one of the many colourful, intriguing and enigmatic characters of the masterpiece “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. He is the antagonist of the novel and rightly so. He is racist, a hypocrite, an immoral cheater, a short-tempered brute and misogynistic. Tom is also part of an old and out dated sort of world that is being swamped all-round the edges by a new and better society. That is the reason why he is acting so tough and also why he hates Jay Gatsby so much, it is because he is afraid, afraid that the world that he knows and all the old-fashioned values of love, wealth and masculinity will come crashing down on him. He dislikes Gatsby because he is part of the new generation and he got rich by a different way

Like all the relationships in this novel Daisy and Tom Buchanan’s marriage is not what most would call a successful one. Did both of them achieve what they wanted? Yes, Tom got the beautiful wife of his dreams and Daisy got a very wealthy and powerful husband. The marriage was very beneficial for the both of them. They used each other to get what they truly wanted which was not true