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Tom Buchanan is a very confident man. His confidence is indirectly portrayed through his physical size and his interactions with others. A prime example of Tom's confidence can be seen in his argument with Gatsby in Chapter 7, in which he commands, "You two start on home, Daisy... In Mr. Gatsby's car" (Fitzgerald 142). Tom's confidence helped him to win the argument with Gatsby about who Daisy loves more. His confidence is also portrayed in his commands directed at Daisy and Gatsby. By commanding them to drive home together, he asserts his dominance as the most powerful. He knows they are having an affair, but he lets them go home by themselves anyway because he is confident he has gained the upper hand and that they will not continue their affair at home. The way he sends them home is almost scornful, as they seem like bickering children sent into a time out and he seems like the powerful parent.

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Tom is one of the residents of East Egg, also known as  "old money".  He is not a self-made man, like Gatsby. He was born into his wealth and position in society and did not have to do much to get there. His aristocratic background makes him feel superior to others, specifically in terms of race. In the first chapter, he mentions "The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved" (Fitzgerald 17). Tom seems very interested in this book that discusses white supremacy. He believes that this book is the truth and that all the rich white people like himself must unite to blockade the success of people of other races. Tom continues to believe in very old views, like the notion of white supremacy, which are rooted in his aristocratic background. These beliefs give one the sense that Tom is racist because he believes himself to be the ideal model of a human and anyone else to be lesser.

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Tom, and Daisy for that matter, are very careless people. They enter into actions without thinking about the consequences or how the outcome could effect others. For example, once Nick confronts Tom about Gatsby's death in a chance meeting in the city, Tom has no sympathies for Gatsby's death. He says, "What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him... He ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car" (Fitzgerald 187). Tom does not care that he was the indirect reason for Gatsby's death and actually believes that Gatsby was going to die anyway. Tom's carelessness lead to him having an affair, and therefore Myrtle running out in front of his car and getting hit. He attributes her death to Gatsby, even though he was the reason she ran out to stop his car. Tom is very careless and as much as he likes to lay the blame on others, his affair lead to Myrtle's death and to Wilson's insanity.

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Tom is a very critical person, which comes from his tremendous amount of wealth and massive ego. He criticizes Gatsby falsely for being a bootlegger, by saying, "' 'Who is this Gatsby anyhow?' demanded Tom suddenly. 'Some big bootlegger?' (Fitzgerald 114). Tom criticizes Gatsby on how he made his money, which seems like a kind of odd thing to criticize someone about. Usually one does not care how someone gets money, but simply if someone else has it or not. However Tom continues this criticism by saying, " 'I didn't hear it. I imagined it. A lot of these newly rich people are just big bootlegger, you know' " (Fitzgerald 114). This is a highly critical statement because Tom says he simply imagined it, so he is just inferring that Gatsby got his money illegitimately. He assumes things about people that he does not know to be factual and from his inferences he makes up a list of who he should and should not associate with. This puts him on the level of a prejudice person in terms of pre-judgement. This specific comment on Gatsby may be related to the feud between the East Eggers and the West Eggers. Tom is from East Egg, so it makes sense that he is critical of the "new money" of those from the West Egg, like Gatsby.

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Tom is a very arrogant man, which comes naturally from being a wealthy East sider like himself. He reveals this side of himself very early on in the book. In chapter 1, when Nick is conversing with Tom on the porch, Tom arrogantly says, "I've got a nice place here" (Fitzgerald 12). One can assume that Tom is an arrogant person just from this remark alone. A normal person would not start a conversation off by making a remark about how their house is so marvelous. Tom does this, which proves he thinks his house is very important and almost the only thing important enough to bring up in conversation.

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Tom is very hypocritical, especially in the way he sees Daisy and her actions with Gatsby. After Gatsby mentioned that he has met Daisy, Tom tells Nick, "I wonder where in the devil he met Daisy. By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish" (Fitzgerald 110). Tom criticizes Daisy in this passage, as he believes she wanders around too much and meets too many guys. This is hypocritical because Tom is the one who is currently in an affair and he is criticizing Daisy for simply knowing another guy. He may be concerned that she is having a relationship with Gatsby, but even if this is true, he should not criticize her as he is doing the same thing with Myrtle. This is why Tom is very hypocritical in his statements.

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Nick mentions that, "His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked-- and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts" (Fitzgerald 11). Nick describes Tom's voice as "gruff", meaning that it has a harsh tone that makes him seem always angry. Nick also says that his voice had a " touch of paternal contempt" , meaning he almost always sounded like he was better than the people he was talking to. He obviously saw himself as above most people, especially women, which is why his voice had "paternal contempt" in it. This makes it obvious as to why many people at his school hated him, as Nick mentions.

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On page 11, Nick describes Tom Buchanan's physical appearance as "Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body-- he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage-- a cruel body" (Fitzgerald 11). Nick portrays Tom as a huge, burly figure who could deal great damage to someone else, referring to him as having a "cruel body". This foreshadows the fact that he will break Mrs. Wilson's nose in the next chapter as his body is capable of "enormous power".