Character sketch - Tom Bunchanan, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever
it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . ."
In conclusion, Tom Buchanan is a wealthy and cruel man who has to get what he wants. He doesn't mind using
violence to keep Myrtle under his control. Tom believes that it is normal to cheat on his wife but forbidden for
Daisy to cheat on him. He gloats when Daisy chooses him and not Gatsby but that's not enough and he feels
satisfied only after Gatsby is killed.