As the story opens, Nick, the narrator, describes his self, his family and how he moved to West Egg. Then he visits his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom for dinner at their house in East Egg. At dinner Nick meets Baker, who he later recognizes from magazines as a famous athlete. At dinner Baker tells Nick that Tom has a girl back in New York, and Daisy either does not care enough to break up with Tom or she does not know. As Nick pulls up to his house after dinner, he sees Gatsby, but he does not say hi because Gatsby vanished.
Tom
"This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things."
-It appears that there are no good qualities about Tom except for his muscularity and skill in football. Other than that he is racist and unfaithful.
-His role in the novel is to represent the epitome of a rich man in those times. He is a cheater and a racist who inherited his wealth. If Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby as an outlook on American society at the time, then men like Tom were the root problem.
-"One of those men who reach sun an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax." This quote reminded me of Vince Young, the NFL quarterback because at Texas in his senior year he was almost perfect, leading the Longhorns to the National Championship. As a UT fan I thought that he would make a great NFL quarterback, but unfortunately his career went downhill once he entered the draft. This is probably similar to many retired NFL players because once they can no longer play, they all say that they miss the glory and the adrenaline from winning a game.
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