Gatsby:
The introduction of Gatsby comes from Jordan Baker as she made conversation about Nick "liv[ing] in West Egg" and how he "must know Gatsby" due to all his outrageous parties and his glorious mansion on that side of town (Fitzgerald 11). Gatsby's motivation throughout the story was to win Daisy back from Tom and even went as far as to "b[uy his] house so that Daisy would be just across the bay" (Fitzgerald 78). His reasoning for the extravagant events at his house was "he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night" (Fitzgerald 79). Gatsby "accepted a commission as first lieutenant when [the war] began" (Fitzgerald 66). Prior to that, however, he was born to "shiftless and unsuccessful farm people" in North Dakota (Fitzgerald 98). Gatsby is a hopeless and determined romantic being that after Daisy and him rekindle their relationship he sets out to "repeat the past... [and] fix everything just the way it was before" she married Tom (Fitzgerald 110).
The introduction of Gatsby comes from Jordan Baker as she made conversation about Nick "liv[ing] in West Egg" and how he "must know Gatsby" due to all his outrageous parties and his glorious mansion on that side of town (Fitzgerald 11). Gatsby's motivation throughout the story was to win Daisy back from Tom and even went as far as to "b[uy his] house so that Daisy would be just across the bay" (Fitzgerald 78). His reasoning for the extravagant events at his house was "he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night" (Fitzgerald 79). Gatsby "accepted a commission as first lieutenant when [the war] began" (Fitzgerald 66). Prior to that, however, he was born to "shiftless and unsuccessful farm people" in North Dakota (Fitzgerald 98). Gatsby is a hopeless and determined romantic being that after Daisy and him rekindle their relationship he sets out to "repeat the past... [and] fix everything just the way it was before" she married Tom (Fitzgerald 110).
Tom:
The introduction of Tom Buchanan comes from none other than Nick Carraway. His character opens the book by discussing his outlook on like before his summer in East and West Egg and mentions that "the history of summer really beg[an] on the evening [he] drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans" and he explains that "Daisy, [Tom's wife], was [his] second cousin once removed and [he] had known Tom in college" (Fitzgerald 5). Tom was said to have "various physical accomplishments...[and an] enormously wealthy... family" (Fitzgerald 6). He "had left Chicago and come East" and actually "spent a year in France" (Fitzgerald 6). Tom's motivation at the beginning of the story is that his amount of money and control fills his head with a cocky and arrogant mindset that he is better than everyone and basically knows everything. Tom knew he had "a nice place" and that he was "stronger and more of a man than" those surrounding him, like Nick (Fitzgerald 6). However, towards the end of the story his motivation shifts from thinking he is invincible, basically, to being scared of losing his wife being that he did not want "to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to [his] wife" (Fitzgerald 130). Tom was a rather aggressive and pushy man that would "turn...[you] around by one arm" if he did not get the attention and recognition he seeked (Fitzgerald 7).
The introduction of Tom Buchanan comes from none other than Nick Carraway. His character opens the book by discussing his outlook on like before his summer in East and West Egg and mentions that "the history of summer really beg[an] on the evening [he] drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans" and he explains that "Daisy, [Tom's wife], was [his] second cousin once removed and [he] had known Tom in college" (Fitzgerald 5). Tom was said to have "various physical accomplishments...[and an] enormously wealthy... family" (Fitzgerald 6). He "had left Chicago and come East" and actually "spent a year in France" (Fitzgerald 6). Tom's motivation at the beginning of the story is that his amount of money and control fills his head with a cocky and arrogant mindset that he is better than everyone and basically knows everything. Tom knew he had "a nice place" and that he was "stronger and more of a man than" those surrounding him, like Nick (Fitzgerald 6). However, towards the end of the story his motivation shifts from thinking he is invincible, basically, to being scared of losing his wife being that he did not want "to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to [his] wife" (Fitzgerald 130). Tom was a rather aggressive and pushy man that would "turn...[you] around by one arm" if he did not get the attention and recognition he seeked (Fitzgerald 7).