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Tom Buchanan - Coggle Diagram
Tom Buchanan
Tom and Myrtle
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Class
'making a short deft movement tom buchanan broke her nose with his open hand' second example of him being violent to woman. UC destroy the WC.
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Gender
Tom is aware that both M + D will stay with him despite the domestic violence, due to his aristocracy,
Deceit and Lies
Tom contrasts this: he parades Myrtle around NYC unashamedly, he has no respect for his wife.
He wants the freedom to keep a mistress openly, violating not only his marriage but also the Wilsons.
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Toms physical forwardness is evident of his toxic masculinity and awareness of his social superiority, which allows him to take advantage of women.
'his white shirt-front pressed against my arm.'
uses Myrtle to sustain his physical and financial dominance and sustain his superiority over someone from a lower class.
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Their relationship reveal that class boundaries are impermeable. Myrtle attempts to gain class mobility and ends up dead, while tom renews his union with Daisy.
Tom and Gatsby argument
Class
Tom is the most outwardly classist character: his colonial mansion in esast egg highlights both his connection to slavery and European lineage
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Gatsbys relationship with Daisy offends his pride and masculinity, G is his social inferior and therefore T's beliefs say that he should not be able to access his wife.
Schism between old and new money: key role in distinguishing the different characters throughout the novel and their inter-relationships.
The argument is less about Daisy, but more about Toms pride.
'tom was feeling hot whips of panic... his wife and his mistress... were slipping precipitately from his control.' pg119
'you two start on home, daisy' said tom 'in Mr Gatsby's car... he insisted with magnanimous scorn 'go on. he won't annoy you. I think he realises his presumptuous little flirtation is over.' chapter 7
highlights the power dynamic in the novel. he knows daisy wont leave him and he has reasserted his domincance over her and gatsby
Introduction to Tom
Gender
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'brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen..' conveys his lack of humanity, brute, savage nature,
Class
Tom lacks any purpose in life, restlessness permeates his gestures:
'The Lost Generation' generation who came of age during WWII feeling restless and disorientated. After witnessing death tolls, this generation felt distressed and sought comfort in material wealth.
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Race
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toms fears of representative of a 'larger cultural fear present in the 1920s.' Sarah Tripp argues this fear is the loss of class privilege, race and patriarchal civilization
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Nostalgia
Tom has the threat of physical aggression lurking behind his resltessness: with his glory days behind him.
by chasing the past, Tom becomes dissatisfied with the present.