Similarities Between Tom And George

Tom and George are both violent;, Tom when he hits Myrtle, and when he has a scuffle with Gatsby. Also, in the way that he approaches people that he thinks are beneath him or that have wronged him in some way. Apparently, he was less like this until after he finished school where the hardness in him became more apparent and he began actively ruining people when possible. Tom hits Myrtle, so we see that he acts on his anger issues. Tom uses his standing in society to bully people into doing things the way he wants them done. He thinks he can have or do whatever he wants, without having to pay any consequences.
George also acts on violent impulses and kills someone out of rage that he feels for being picked on by everyone including his wife.

The biggest difference between the two of them is money. Tom is very wealthy and uses his money as a weapon. He wants the best, and is going to have the best, no matter what. He wants everyone to look at him with envy because of his money and power.
George, on the other hand, is not wealthy. He is a working class guy, that doesn’t have the financial resources that Tom has. George’s wife, Myrtle, wants more money and a higher social standing. She belittles George because of this and ends up in an affair with Tom, hoping he is the way to getting what she wants.
On the face of it, Tom and George or different. Tom is wealthy, George is poor. Tom is a bully, George is bullied. Tom never works, George works all the time. The men are connected by Myrtle, George’s wife and Tom’s lover. Myrtle moves the both of them to be violent. Tom, caught by his need to assert dominance over both his wife, Daisy and Myrtle, brutally suppresses Myrtle in Chapter Two:
“Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing, in impassioned voices, whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy’s name.”
“Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!” shouted Mrs. Wilson “I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy!