I was extremely surprised to find that within the first chapter of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald there would be as much drama as there already is! Tom is having an affair! I have already come to not like this character. Not only does he seem to have few morals, but he is arrogant. He has made racist and sexist remarks to Nick Carraway. For example, on page 13, Tom insinuates that whites are better than all other people when he says, "It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things."
Another reaso. I have grown to dislike the character of Tom Buchanan is because of this quote from page 17, "I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool- that's the best thing a girl can. E in this world, a beautiful little fool." This shows me that Tom, and maybe all men of this time period, believe that women should remain subservient to men. Tom believed that women should leave the work and smarts to me.n while their only job is to be beautiful.
There were a few bits from these pages that I was confused by. One was how did Jordan Baker know Nick already? And my other confusion was why after all of the time of being Gatsby's neighbor, had Nick never been over to talk to or at least meet Gatsby?
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