and money to raise their position in society. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ different socials statuses are explored through three main families/characters; the Buchanan family‚ Nick Carraway‚ and Jay Gatsby. The first house we will explore is the Buchanan household. There are three people in this household; Tom Buchanan‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ and a baby girl whose name is unclear. Tom is an ex-football player who has “reached an acute level of excellence‚ everything afterward is an anticlimax” (FitzGerald
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How does Fitzgerald make Tom Buchanan an unpleasant character? Support your answer by close reference to Fitzgerald’s writing. In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald creates a most unpleasant character in the form of Tom Buchanan. Fitzgerald achieves this primarily by consistently showing Buchanan’s unpleasant characteristics to the reader in every situation where we meet him. Buchanan is displayed as a selfish‚ controlling and physically dominant bully who disregards care for anyone‚ including his
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By comparing and contrasting George Wilson and Tom Buchanan we discover several new insights due the juxtaposition. From the initial entrance of George Wilson in the book we can see that he is a weak man in the way his character is depicted. He is described as‚ "spiritless and anaemic...who mingled with the cement walls" (30). His presence is so insignificant in the beginning that he does not even stand out against the background of his own home. Tom‚ on the other hand‚ seems more aggressive the
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development of all the characters‚ in particular Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Three major symbols assist in those characters’ development: the car symbolizes wealth‚ power of the upper class‚ and chasing dreams; the consumption of alcohol symbolizes revealing the truth; and New York City represents freedom to do what one pleases‚ not bound by the views of East or West Egg. The development of the characters Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan is shaped by these symbols throughout the novel. Cars - the symbol
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Explain why Myrtle Wilson’s dream to marry Tom Buchanan is unrealistic? Valley of ashes- broken dream 1) Tom and Nick are going to New York‚ going through valley of Ashes‚ a big board the eye of doctor t f eckleburg‚ eyes of god. knows everything and sees everything‚ garages is blind to their relation‚ he thinks he will live with Myrtle forever. 2) Tom is insisting Nick to meet his girl‚ but Tom only cares his fun‚ that shows his mean and selfishness‚ he doesn’t care that Nick doesn’t want to
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How does Tom Buchanan represent 1920’s society? Tom Buchanan plays a large role in the great Gatsby and is greatly representative of the rich “old money” part of society‚ and‚ in many ways what was wrong with it. F. Scott Fitzgerald may have made Tom a villain because of their rejection of him in his earlier life. Fitzgerald has used Tom in The Great Gatsby‚ to demonstrate the power that men had during the 1920s. In order to understand Tom’s purpose in the book‚ it must be known that he has been
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Jan 2012: “Tom Buchanan reflects important attitudes and values in real-life American society in the 1920s.” Tom Buchanan is arguably the least likeable character in Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’; misogynistic‚ cavalier in his attitude to his wife and characteristically purposeless as part of the ‘Lost Generation’‚ as a representative of a society he repels the reader. Is he‚ however‚ an accurate emblem of the Jazz Age? Tom himself never claims to be entirely comfortable with the new hedonistic
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How do you respond to the view that it is very difficult for readers to feel anything other than contempt for Tom Buchanan? It is very difficult for readers to feel anything other than contempt for Tom Buchanan throughout the novel. Fitzgerald uses Tom’s behaviour and attitude from the first time we are introduced to his character in chapter 1 to present him as a bully through his racist and unpleasant language assisted with his tough appearance. Daisy uses animalistic language to describe Tom
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two of these views. The views I have chosen to compare and contrast are those of the Buchanan report and Monderman’s thesis. These are two different views of how social order is produced in relation to traffic management. I will look at the areas these views share in common‚ as well as their differences and I will analyse the strengths and weaknesses of both views. The Buchanan report was created by Colin Buchanan‚ an engineer in the early 1960’s when he was commissioned by the UK government to work
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chapter 7 of “Making Social Lives”‚ written by Elizabeth B. Silva. The two different approaches to the ordering of traffic are the Buchanan Report‚ a modernist approach‚ and the Monderman thesis‚ a flexible approach. Both Buchanan and Monderman address similar questions but advocate very different solutions to the issue of traffic management. In 1961 Colin Buchanan‚ an engineer‚ was commissioned by the UK Government to start work on traffic problems. This was because the amount of motor vehicles
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