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
• -I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let mr nobody from nowhere make love to your wife

  -Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions

  -The transition from libertine to prig was so complete
• -Tom’s voice groped unsuccessfully for the paternal note

  -Ill be damned if I see how you got within a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door

  -Theres  things between Daisy and me that you’ll never know, things neither of us can ever forget

  -A common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger