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A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the characters of Gatsby and Tom in "The Great Gatsby." No additional sources cited.
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or two men who want the same woman. One man is Jay Gatsby and he has spent many years attempting to make enough money to be rich enough to capture
her. Tom Buchanan is the other man and he is from a wealthy family and is married to the woman. The woman is Daisy. The following paper compares and contrasts
Gatsby and Tom. Gatsby and Tom Gatsby is generally a mystery. Throughout the book one is never truly explicit about where he got his money but we know he
got it through illegal means and through bootlegging during Prohibition. He is a lonely man who throws parties, very expensive and grand parties, that he never attends. He throws these
parties perhaps in the hopes that Daisy will show up at one of them and give him a chance to see her again. Tom is a man who never
worked hard in his life for he was born wealthy and powerful The narrator, who knew him in college, says that he was the type of man who was good
at everything and by the time he was 21 years of age he had excelled and "everything afterward savors of anti-climax" (Fitzgerald 10). He was generally a very sociable man
and a man who, as mentioned never had to work for a living. In these two so far we see many differences, the primary one being that Gatsby is
a man who has worked incredibly hard for what he wants and what he wants is wealth enough to win Daisy. Tom has never had to work for anything and
even has Daisy, though he does not seem overly in love with her. He is a man who has never experienced a real dream and worked hard to achieve it
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