Tom Buchannan Character Analysis

If you could have anything you wanted, and have all the money in the world, but in the end you are unsatisfied, what was it all for? Throughout the novel Tom Buchannan, continues to prove himself to be careless and inconsiderate by not worrying about hurting others or forming a real relationship with Daisy, someone that he should’ve cared about. People in this 1920’s society such as Tom believe that money can fix anything. As with Tom, Daisy is in love with material things, and is incapable of having a real human relationship due to her affection towards materialism. Even Gatsby, who seems to be very capable of love and seems invested in having a relationship with Daisy, proves to be somewhat unauthentic in forming relationships, as Daisy becomes
On the eve of marrying Tom, Daisy has a drunken night with Jordan and demonstrates her true feelings towards Tom while saying “‘Take 'em down-stairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to. Tell 'em all Daisy's change' her mind. Say: 'Daisy's change' her mine!’”(76). When Daisy is drunk, and not thinking right, she proves that she is only with Tom for the luxuries in life, such as the expensive pearls that he gave her. Her drunken self realizes that she is not in love with him. Waking up the next morning, she returns to the her that society has morphed her into, ready to marry the guy that has the money and can provide her with all the finer things in life, even though she doesn’t love him. During her meeting with Gatsby, he is set on showing Daisy what a lavish life he is living, which moves her to the point of saying, "They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the think folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before"(92). Daisy is so in love with the materialistic aspect of life that seeing how much there is for her to still acquire moves her to tears. While laying in Gatsby’s closet, she realizes that there is more to life than simply what Tom can offer her with money, and that there are greater opportunities that just
These three characters became obsessed with the materialistic things in life to the point where they ended up with nothing meaningful. Every relationship that they attempted to form was either based off money, lacked any loyalty, or corrupted by money, which begs the question, what was all of the money for? The 1920’s ideal of such great desire for money left these three people without anything meaningful in a society where they basically had everything. The lack of authenticity and truth in this society where the only thing on the minds of its inhabitants was money made this novel into the thrilling story about the corruption and distortion of humanity that it