TOM

• a national figure... everything afterwards savours of anti-climax
• it was a body capable of enormous leverage, a cruel body
• That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man
• "Civilization's going to pieces" said Tom violently
• his sturdy physicial egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart
• his determination to have my company bordered on violence
• He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes and I couldnt keep my eyes off him (myrtle)
• making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with an open hand