Similarities Between Tom And Gatsby

Tom is shown through multiple examples to act cruel towards those he loves or cares about. In his relationship with Myrtle, Tom Buchanan hits and breaks her nose. This is a prime example of Tom acting cruel towards someone he loves or cares about. “ I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy Dais-. Making a short deft movement, Tom buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald, 37). The fact that he would hit her is cruel enough, but Tom breaks Myrtle's nose solely for saying something he didn't like. Tom acts cruel towards the ones he loves in more ways than physical. After a long marriage of pain, Daisies true opinion of Tom is shown. “ And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in awhile I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. "You're revolting," said Daisy” (Fitzgerald, ). This shows that Tom has been cruel to Daisy physically and mentally throughout their marriage, but continues to argue with excuses that he really loves her. Tom tries to say that he loves her even though he cheats and mistreats her. Toms behavior shows him to be cruel to those he loves because he cheats, disrespects, and physically abuses them in some

Also, they both fell in love with people that were higher up in society and they both died trying to pursue what they wanted. Gatsby fell in love with Daisy, although she wouldn't marry him because she wanted someone who had money he had nothing. He thought to earn Daisy’s love he had to become rich, so he got into an illegal-strode business and he “bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores…in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter…”(133). “Gatsby bought [a] house so that Daisy would be across the bay” (78). He threw huge parties “[expecting] her to wander into one of his parties some night”

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 both texts, we see characters that struggle with personal identity as a result of rigid social boundaries. For Gatsby this means creating an entirely new persona based on his brief love encounter with Daisy. The illusion that he can ‘repeat the past’ , shapes and moulds him into becoming an individual that he, himself no longer completely recognises. It is almost as though Gatsby is so consumed by the character he has created he almost believes his fabricated truths. This is particularly noticeable when Gatsby explains he “lived

Differences that set Buchanan and Gatsby apart is, Tom comes from old money, in other words his wealth originally runs in his family, it goes back generations. Because of Tom’s age, the way in which he spends his money his at sometimes insane. Spending it on unnecessary items such as “a string of polo ponies from a lake forest”. ( Fitzgerald, 6 ) The way in which Tom treated Daisy was much different from how Gatsby would treat her. Tom treated Daisy with no respect. He was an unfaithful individual who would hook up with another woman just to feel powerful. He was also very abusive and unable to contain his anger. In this. He ends up breaking Myrtle’s nose because refuses to stop mentioning Daisy’s name. “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”. ( Fitzgerald, 37) Since Tom had been brought up with so much wealth, he never took into thought of other races. He gives off the impression that he is a racist

Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan had some similarities and differences . They are both liars, they lie about many things. Gatsby lied about who he really is and Tom lies to get out of things. They both are living a fake life, a double life. Gatsby was pretending he came from a wealthy family when in reality his family is dirt poor. Tom was having an affair with another woman who does not come from the same social class as him and had an apartment with her in New York. The apartment was a place where they both can get away from their ‘other’ life. Although, they both are very wealthy and had a lot of money, they come from different social class. Tom was born rich so he did not work for his money and Gatsby was really poor, but he worked for his

Also, both have will to achieve their individual goals. For example, Gatsby wanted Daisy, so he moved nearby and attempted to steal her from Tom. In fact, he died waiting for Daisy. Gatsby also wished to live an extravagant life, which he achieved. On the other hand, Tom achieves his goals in alternate ways.

Gatsby, a more tender and passionate person, loves Daisy because she is everything he has ever wanted in life. Tom, a greedy, preoccupied person, "Loves" Daisy for a sense of possession. Tom proudly cheats on her and is never romantic towards

Although Gatsby has dedicated his whole life to transforming himself into a different man and becoming part of the upper class, he is still not on the same level as Daisy and Tom. Gatsby knows how hard he has worked to earn everything that he has gotten because he knows what it is like to be poor and not have a lot. In contrast, Daisy and Tom are both born into rich families and do not know the feeling of earning what they deserve because they have always had the privilege of getting what they want. They do not care about any other peoples’ feelings because they believe that their social status puts them above others. This is evident in the way that Daisy treats Gatsby because she never considered his feelings when she led him on, then crushed

The Great Gatsby centered around the relationships in the story, which were mainly self-motivated. The main theme in the story was selfish love as pictured between Gatsby and Daisy, Daisy and Tom, and Tom and Myrtle. Gatsby was more obsessed with the idea of Daisy than he was in love with her; Daisy fell for both Tom and Gatsby because of their wealth; Tom was with Myrtle because she made him feel needed; Myrtle thought of Tom as a way out of the valley of ashes. Tom and Myrtle might have loved each other, but they both had selfish motives.

In the Great Gatsby, Tom and Gatsby seem different yet they are very similar. A notable similarity is that they both used someone. Tom evidently used Myrtle, and then she died, because he thought he loved her more than Daisy. “But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them”, this quotation shows how Tom went back to Daisy after he had deceived Myrtle into thinking they would move away together. Likewise, Gatsby used Nick in order to meet Daisy because he knew she was his cousin. “If you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over”, Jordan says this to Nick and she goes on to explain how Gatsby wants Daisy to see his house and she can do that if they meet at Nick’s house. For

In The Great Gatsby, Tom and Jay are Daisy’s love interests, However their relationships vary in nature with both Tom and Jay having different ways of treating her. While Tom and Jay are both wealthy and gregarious, they have very personalities from each other. Jay wants to impress the woman he’s been in love with years while Tom uses his wealth to boost his ego. Daisy can see through both of their faltering facades which makes her choice between the two even more difficult than imagined on the surface.

The reason why Gatsby new he could not get daisy back then, is cause he did not have any money. Daisy came from a wealthy family and she know if she want a good life she need money. That why daisy went for tom she did not love tom but she knew tom had money. Daisy really did love Gatsby but Gatsby knew money is everything with his love of his life so he got some.

Gatsby showed parts of all of these feelings throughout his lusting for Daisy and therefore need for wealth and social status. The id of a character pushes them towards their overall goal through impulse without a sense of conscience. For Gatsby, this was Daisy. There were moments

We want instant gratification from it and if it doesn’t happen we begin frustrated or anxious. Such as a toddler wanting another slice of cake and keeps crying until they get second slice. Gatsby’s Id was driven by Daisy. Such as an animal, he only sought out for gratification in needing her. He went into a criminal life for survival, and was due to the fact that he hated his life when he was poor. From all this leads to the Ego, which deals with reality and trying to be accepted in the world. In the case, Gatsby’s ego has a confliction in his personality between trying to be someone who he isn’t so daisy can accept him that even he leads himself to believe it is all real. His superego being that he never truly goes after Daisy. Instead he throws parties hoping it will bring her to him. Gatsby displays a fear of intimacy which is a part of the psychological defenses in psychoanalytic theory. He fears Daisy cannot love him if he isn’t the person she wants or wealthy, which also factors into why he leads the life he