Key Quotations - Tom

Question 1

Violence

Answer 1

‘Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand’

Question 2

Tom admitting his infidelity

Answer 2

‘Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time

Question 3

Tom convinced Gatsby killed Myrtle

Answer 3

‘He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car’

Question 4

Tom towards women

Answer 4

‘By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me’

Question 5

Tom exposing Gatsby’s bootlegging

Answer 5

I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn’t far wrong

Question 6

Masculinty

Answer 6

‘Just because I’m stronger and more of a man than you are’

Question 7

Ignorant racism

Answer 7

‘It’s up to us, the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things’

Question 8

Showing Gatsby he’s not jealous or scared of him

Answer 8

‘You two start on home Daisy… In Mr Gatsby’s car’

Question 9

Daisy’s description of Tom when he talks about his infidelity

Answer 9

‘You’re revolting’