Week 2, Tom Buchanan

Tom has a serious problem with infidelity. It comes across to me as if he has always had everything he has wanted. Tom has never been told “no” by anyone. In university he was an athlete. Although he married Nick’s second cousin, Tom and Nick were not plans in their university days. Tom is the classic case of a person who hops from affair to affair to keep up the excitement in his or her life. What else will he do all day? Moreover, does he have a power complex? He does not have relations with women with greater edges like Daisy, but with the lower classes in which there is a material domination that he leads. He only seems concerned about Daisy and Gatsby because it creates exciting drama for him. Also, I doubt that he has ever felt threatened by other men in the face of women, especially his own wife.