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Analysis Of Tom Buchanan
Tom Buchanan is considered the main villain or antagonist of the story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tom Buchanan possesses many unadmirable traits. He is a very racist man who believes that white people are the supreme and dominant race on Earth. He is also a violent man as he inflicts physical pain to other women. Firstly, Tom Buchanan is racist and his thoughts are that whites are the superior race among all human races. He makes several racist statements during his dinner with his old friend Nick Carraway and his wife Daisy Buchanan. “Civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out Tom violently. (...) ‘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.”

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