https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05 "'Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!' shouted Mrs. Wilson. 'I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai-' Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand." (Fitzgerald 41) en-us 2016-09-20 16:44:40 UTC 2026-01-07 16:08:22 UTC hello@padlet.com jvallllobera8559 https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/125158969 Lack of sympathy for human life
"'No, he doesn't,' said Tom coldly. 'And if you feel that way about it maybe I'd  better sell it somewhere else after all." (Fitzgerald 29)
In this instance Tom gets extremely irritated once Winston makes a single remark about the speed its taking to sell Toms car. His change in temper shows that he lacks the sympathy for anyone but himself.

]]> 2016-09-20 16:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/125158969 jvallllobera8559 https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/125163843 "'We're getting off!' he insisted 'I want you to meet my girl.'" (Fitzgerald 28)
We learn in chapter 2 that Tom has been cheating on Daisy with another woman. He presumably has been doing this for a while as the woman also has his home phone number and she calls while Nick and Jordan are over for dinner. When Tom says this quote to Nick, he's not referencing Daisy as "my girl" its in fact a different girl.

]]> 2016-09-20 17:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/125163843 jvallllobera8559 https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/127034202 In chapter 6 after Daisy has been to Gatsby's house several times, Tom starts to get a bad feeling about him. So when Daisy went to his house the next time, Tom accompanied her just to make sure that nothing was going on between them. "Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy's running around alone, for on the following Saturday night he came with her at Gatsby's party." (Fitzgerald 110)]]> 2016-09-28 16:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/127034202 jvallllobera8559 https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/127037017 When Mertle was mocking Tom about Daisy and how he was cheating on her Tom proceeds to break her nose. Which shows that he isn't proud of his actions and that he has some regret from his decisions.
 "'Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!' shouted Mrs. Wilson. 'I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai-' Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand." (Fitzgerald 41)]]> 2016-09-28 16:50:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/127037017 jvallllobera8559 https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/127041743 "In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars and hired a whole floor of the Sellback Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued ay three hundred and fifty thousand dollars." 
(Fitzgerald 80)
As seen in this description of his wedding, he is extremely careless with money and will do whatever he wants no matter the price.]]> 2016-09-28 17:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/127041743 jvallllobera8559 https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/129886622 When doing the charts in class, after every cause was derived from its effect, Tom was left as the catalyst.
(In the chart bellow we start with the event of Gatsby waiting outside of the Buchanan's house. After tracing every event back to its cause we are left at Tom, we also did the same thing for Myrtles death, and Wilson's psychopathic breakdown/ Gatsby's death.]]> 2016-10-11 16:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/129886622 jvallllobera8559 https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/129889204 Tom is shown as being an extremely controlling person as he thrives off of power and determining his situation. He is always seen as in control of the situation throughout the story because of his need to be in power and directly affect the outcome.
"Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy's running around alone, for on the following Saturday night he came with her to Gatsby's party." (Fitzgerald 110)

]]> 2016-10-11 16:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/129889204 jvallllobera8559 https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/131556440 Later in the story after doing cause and effect charts we see Tom is the reason for all of the events (as seen in the catalystchart). He caused all of these by making incredibly strategic power moves, such as the car swap which not only kills Gatsby but also emotionally crushes him. "'You two start on home, Daisy' said Tom. 'In Mr. Gatsby's car'" (Fitzgerald 142)]]> 2016-10-18 16:59:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jvallllobera8559/j7g62kfajk05/wish/131556440