How Is George Presented In The Great Gatsby

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by .F. Scott Fitzgerald there were many interesting characters. One of the characters, Tom, is a big headed bully, who is wealthy, never working and not loyal to his wife, Daisy. He is extremely arrogant and he believed he could get away with anything. But even though he is a terrible husband and person he still loves his wife and would do anything to stay with her. Another character is George. He is bullied by Tom, poor, always working, and faithful to his wife, Myrtle. He owns a car garage and does the best he can to for him and his wife, even though they have a loveless marriage. There are countless topics to compare and contrast Tom and George. At the beginning of, The Great Gatsby, the readers can obviously

tell that these characters are extremely different. But as the novel continues readers see that their are similares along with their differences. Their attitude towards women, the way they show violence, and their reactions to betrayal has multiple similarities and differences.
First, these male characters have many similarities and differences on their attitudes toward women.They both love and have an emotional connection with their wife so they want to stay with them.

For example, Tom tell Myrtle that he couldn’t divorce Daisy to marry her was because Daisy was catholic, “Daisy was not a catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie” (Fitzgerald, 33). Tom and George wants to be with their spouse but both of them treat them in very different ways. George cares for Myrtle but he is a push over. Unlike George, Tom needs to have dominance over people, especially with the women that he is with. Also, Tom isn’t loyal to Daisy; he has had many mistresses including George's wife, Myrtle. On the other hand George is extremely loyal to

Myrtle.
Next, Tom and George show their violence in similar and different ways. These characters only show violence when they feel threatened in some way. Tom showed violence when Myrtle wouldn’t shut up about Daisy and Tom felt threatened because she was attacking Daisy. George showed violence when he found out Myrtle was having an affair. But Tom felt like he had to be in control of Daisy and Myrtle. When Myrtle and Tom were having argument, she kept saying Daisy’s name and Tom Didn’t like that. When she wouldn’t stop Tom slapped her in the nose and broke it. “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.” (37). Unlike Tom, George didn’t feel the need dominance was he found out about the affair; he was just in a fight or flight situation and he chose fight. So he wanted to get out of town but he locked up Myrtle so she couldn’t mess around with anymore men.
Lastly, the characters’ reactions to betrayal resemble and vary from each other.

At first they were both in denial that their wives had cheated on them. After awhile, Tom and George hated Gatsby because they had reasons to believe that Gatsby was the man Daisy and Myrtle had an affair with. They wanted Gatsby gone from their lives, But George had gone farther than Tom to do that.George went crazy. He locked Myrtle up in a room in their home and he was planning to move. But after Myrtle died Tom gave him the thought Gatsby killed her, so he found Gatsby and killed him. Then he killed himself after. Tom reacted differently; he found dirt on Gatsby so Daisy would not want to be with him. Also he told George that Gatsby was the one who killed and had the affair with Myrtle because he thought Tom killed her. But then he put the blame on Gatsby so George would do something about it. “That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn’t mine-do you hear?” (141). Which made George to want to kill kill Gatsby. So Tom got George to do his dirty work for him and got Gatsby out of the

picture.
There are ways to compare and contrast the characters Tom and George. At the beginning of the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald makes readers see that these men are extremely different. As the novel continues readers see another side of these men that show their similares even though they are not very eye coughing. Like their attitude towards women, the way they show violence, and their reactions to betrayal have numerous similarities and differences.These men show their love to their wife in very odd and unacceptable ways. But they claim that they love them; Tom and George would do next to anything to keep their wife beside them. Even if they have to get some dirt on their hands.