TOM

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  • TOM
    • wealth
      • ownership & domination - standing in front of mansion
        • 'Tom Buchanan standing in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch'
          • Nick : extent of his wealth 'rather took your breath away'
      • ascribed
        • 'Tom Buchanan of Chicago'
          • high status & sense of entitlement
    • morality
      • compulsive womaniser - preference for LC women
        • has affairs
    • physicality
      • intimidating, powerful figure
        • violent/brutal
          • 'making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand'
          • 'insists' with a 'determination that bordered on violence' that Nick meets mistress Myrtle
      • star footballer - 'cruel body'
    • sexist/racist
      • male chauvanist
        • complaining of J & D 'running around' too much
      • 'The Rise Of The Coloured Empires'
        • 'The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be -- will be utterly submerged'
          • white supremacist

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