In chapter one the first character we meet is Nick Carraway a young graduate from New Haven who lives in West Egg. One day he goes to visit his old classmate Tom Buchanans and his distant cousin Daisy who are married and have a young daughter. Dinner seems to be tense and Tom makes obvious the class difference between them. In the middle of dinner Tom receives a call, Jordan Baker tells Nick that it is from Tom's mistress in New York. Gatsby is mentioned a couple of times as Nick's neighbor.
Tom Buchanans
"That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen" (pg 12)
-he comes for a family of wealth: "his family were enormously wealthy--even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach" (pg.6
-he is very arrogant: "it's up to use, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other race will have control of things" (pg. 13) "just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are" (pg. 7)
Tom seems to be the type of person who is going to make things complicated in the rest of the novel. He seems to get what he wants and not cares about other's feelings except for his own. Chapter one set him as a very arrogant rich boy who really just acts to get what he wants. He wants to be on the top but has a bit of fright in him that someone might come and take his power away from him.
"You see I think everything's terrible anyhow" (pg. 17)
When Daisy said this quote I thought it was significant to the book and her character because she seems like the time of person who would be happy with everything she has except for the fact that her husband has a mistress and does not seem to care if she knows or not. It stood out to me because I do not like to see anything as terrible and I try to make the best shine out of anything even if it seems like it has nothing nice to present. Hopefully throughout the book Daisy changes her vision from viewing everything negatively to positively.
--Andrea Garcia, 4
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