Thomas "Tom" Buchanan is the fictional character of the 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby. He's played by Joel Edgerton in the 2013 film of the same name.
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Thomas "Tom" Buchanan, a millionaire who lives in East Egg, and Daisy's husband. Tom is an imposing man of muscular build with a "husky tenor" voice and arrogant demeanor. He was a football star at Yale University. Buchanan has parallels with William Mitchell, the Chicagoan who married Ginevra King. Buchanan and Mitchell were both Chicagoans with an interest in polo. Like Ginevra's father, whom Fitzgerald resented, Buchanan attended Yale and is a white supremacist.
Tom Buchanan is Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick Carraway’s social. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle Wilson, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation. Buchanan lives in the "old money" neighborhood of East Egg in New York.
Tom Buchanan comes from a staggeringly wealthy family with long standing social prestige. Born in Chicago, Tom moved East during his college years where he attended Yale and met Nick Carraway at the University's social club. At Yale, Buchanan was a football star; as Nick accounts, Tom was "one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterwards savours of anti-climax".
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