The Great Gatsby Argumentative Essay

The Great Gatsby Argumentative Essay
“The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.”-Azar Nafisi This quote sums up Tom buchanan perfectly. He is seen as a monster to Nick, and a very aggressive person to everyone else, including his own wife. However, he also has a lot of money and a very nice house. Many may say that Tom is the Representation of the American Dream. Tom’s achievements of the American Dream impacted him by making him more aggressive, making him have a lack of decision making skills, and turning him into a psychopath.

Tom making a lot of money has, without a doubt, made him more aggressive. We can see this by a quote from Nick, someone who has known him
Now, this is a major claim to be making, but there are a lot of depictions that Tom is a psychopath. For starters, during Tom’s talk with Nick. Tom says, “What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him.” (Fitzgerald 187), this is a huge factor in how a psychopath would act. Normal people wouldn’t go to an extreme and not care about the life of another human being. Tom just doesn’t seem to care about the life of Gatsby. Another example of Tom being psychotic is when Nick tells us that Tom thought what he did was perfectly okay. “I couldn’t forgive him or like him but I saw what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.”(Fitzgerald 187) This quote, said by Nick, was explaining how Tom thought his actions were justified. This is another quality that’s portrayed by many psychopaths. Even though Tom thought it was okay, that doesn’t automatically make it okay. What he did was wrong, everyone else thought it was wrong, but because he has been so used to doing horrific actions, he has perceived his actions as accustomed to the given situation. Tom becoming a psychopath is the final way the American Dream impacted