Tom's Power In The Great Gatsby

Tom is the most powerful because he is always armed and prepared to assert his dominance. Near the start of the book, Nick Carraway, a friend of Tom’s, introduces us to Tom and immediately comments on his prestige saying, “[Tom] … had been one of the most powerful ends that had ever played football at New Haven -- a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax” (6). The text shows that Tom must have been a man with quite the physique, so he already is armed with his physical power. It says Tom has been enormously successful, so Tom has other armaments that have not been revealed yet that could show why he has achieved so much. The quote also