Effects Of Tom Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

Tom Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby is impacted the most in chapter seven with the realization of Gatsby's love and passing of Myrtle. During an extreme hot New York day at the Buchanan's house, Daisy through ideal talk secretly “told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy.”(119) Tom through the chapter realizes that he was losing his wife to a man she most likely was not in love with, shocking him because he had done the same thing to Daisy but no one had ever tried to double cross him. After a heated debate to whom Daisy loved, Daisy and Gatsby left the hotel suite heading back home. When Tom, Nick and Jordan left and