What Does Nick Discover Tom's Infidelity

Nick, the narrator of the novel, introduces the reader(s) to Tom Buchanan, the husband of his cousin, Daisy, and explains how Nick has always known Tom as the annoying, egotistical, and the stereotypical rich white man, which is shown in his thoughts,

    The Unreliable Narrator: Nick Carraway starts out the novel by explaining the the reader that his dad gave him advice that he lives by, “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had” (Fitzgerald 1). Nick says he is inclined to keep all of his judgements to himself, and looks up to his dad and these words. In the very next few pages, Nick describes Tom’s body, someone he knew in college after seeing him for the first time, as, “It was a body capable of enormous leverage-a cruel body” (Fitzgerald 7). Nick goes against his father's words by judging Tom’s body. This tells the readers that Nick might not be very social and be a person that stays in the background of situations judging people and their actions. This action can foreshadow to the remainder of the novel, that the narrator, Nick, will be unreliable.

1. Moments that are crucial to the plot of the story in this chapter include: the mention of Tom having an affair, and Nick noticing Gatsby for the first time. Another would be Gatsby reaching out towards the light near Daisy's house when Nick first spots him. One other is the implication that Daisy may know Gatsby.

Daisy’s decision towards the end of the book was unpredictable; however, it did unravel her character more, and she became a little realistic in how the plot turned out. For example, in the novel, it states “It was all very care-less and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back…to let other people clean up the mess they had made…” (Page 179). This shows that in Nick’s perspective those two characters just blossomed their negative attributes, and I do agree with Nick’s predicament because I saw little hints of their behavior throughout the book. For example, in the literature, it also states “She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw” (Page 119). This demonstrates

Tom is described as a fit, intimidating man. The tone of the description suggests Nick does not favor Tom. He describes him as having "shining arrogant eyes" that "gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward." The line "It was a body capable of enormous leverage-a cruel body" implies that Nick views Tom himself, not just his appearance, as a cruel.

Gatsby, Jordan Baker, and Nick go to the Buchanans home for lunch. Tom sees the connection between Gatsby and Daisy.

Nick is in awe and marvels at the wildness of the city.He is enthralled and loves the ‘racy adventurous feel’.Along the way, he goes to have dinner with his cousin Daisy.Daisy is seen as innocent and pure in the novel and Fitzgerald associates her with a multitude of pure colors (white).Her voice also plays a major key in how she is portrayed, seeing as Gatsby describes it as ‘a voice of money’.When Nick speaks to Daisy on the porch about her daughter, she says”All right,' I said, I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool – that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’ Daisy says this in reference to how-how women were portrayed in the 20s because it was better to be dumb and a ditz.Also, within his perceptions and notions about the people around him, Nick has a quite revelation about her husband, Tom Buchanan.Fitzgerald's symbolization of Tom Buchanan stands out within the whole novel because with a novel so centered on the American Dream, Tom Buchanan is everything but that.He was born into wealth, and is an arrogant bully of a man, with a godlike complex, harboring white supremacy beliefs.He symbolizes that breed of rich white Americans that take everything for granted, yet feel entitled to

Jordan Baker informs Nick Carraway that Jay Gatsby is still in love with Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby and Daisy were in a relationship before she was married to Tom Buchanan, which eventually had to end when Gatsby went off to war. Half a decade later, Gatsby has situated himself in West Egg to be close to Daisy. Jordan, acting as a messenger, tells Nick that Gatsby would like him to invite Daisy over for tea, where Gatsby would then surprise and join them. Nick is baffled that Gatsby would go to the trouble of throwing extraneous parties for the past five years, holding onto the sliver of hope that Daisy may one day attend one.

Tom Buchanan: The husband of Daisy, Tom is a very wealthy, ignorant, brawn, white man. He has a “take what I want when I want” mentality. Egocentric, he is an athlete who makes his money from an honest living, but only because he was born into wealth. He believes white people are the dominance in the world. And white people should control every other punitive race. He is also a hypocrite. He has a mistress (Myrtle) in the city outside of his marriage, but when he suspects Gatsby and Daisy are having an affair he becomes outraged forcing a confrontation between the three.

Nick as character stars out naive and hopeful about his summer, his future in New York. As the summer goes on he meets someone wildly more hopeful than he is- Gatsby. He learns many different things about Gatsby, Daisy, Jordan, and Daisy’s husband Tom. He learns many rumors, lies, stories and a variety of secrets that broke many relationships during the novel.

He moves in next door to this mysterious, legendary man named Gatsby who is famous for his lavish, gaudy parties thrown at his enormous, expensive, luxurious mansion. One day, Nick visits his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband Tom in the East Egg and meets Jordan Baker, a professional golfer that he begins a relationship with later. Upon returning to his home, Nick sees Gatsby at the end of his dock, gazing across the bay towards a green light. Nick goes with Tom to the Valley of Ashes with Tom to meet Tom’s mistress, Myrtle, and they all spend the afternoon drinking in Tom and Myrtle’s apartment. After being invited to one of Gatsby’s parties, Nick goes and accidentally meets the actual Gatsby as well as sees Jordan Baker. Nick and Gatsby’s friendship grows, and Nick spends more time with Gatsby as well as Jordan. Nick learns that Gatsby and Daisy fell in love back before Gatsby fought in the war, and while apart, Daisy married Tom. Gatsby still loves her and wants Nick to have Gatsby over when Daisy is over as sort of a coincidental reunion. After getting over his nerves, the plan goes well, and their past love and feelings seem to rekindle between Gatsby and Daisy. On the hottest day of the summer, Nick, Gatsby, Tom, Daisy, and Jordan eat at the Buchanan’s and then go into the city. Tom can tell that Gatsby loves Daisy and that they

Since he dislikes Tom, he purposefully focuses on all the qualities the man possesses to justify his own opinion. Thus he emphasizes Tom’s masculinity and crudity whilst undermining his intelligence and care for other. The focus Nick places on these traits in him demonstrates he doesn’t value

During dinner, Tom discusses a book he had read and leaves to take a phone call in which Daisy follows him. Alone at the table with Nick, Jordan informs him of Tom’s mistress in New York.

Buchanan and her husband Tom who he has known since college. While visiting Nick meets a

When Nick first sees Gatsby, he is standing on his balcony. Gatsby is engaged on the green light on the dock of Daisy Buchanan’s house. Daisy is Gatsby's former girlfriend from many years ago, and he has yet to let go.