character rse

• Tom and Daisy


  • Materialism and hierarchical obsession of the post-war era
  • Jazz-era's upper class capitalist politics
• Tom and Daisy


  • Together due to status and wealth – practical and stable in regards to social expectations
  • Infidelity, abuse, lack of respect, yet unified and unbreakable – perhaps because there is nothing delicate or emotional to break, one cannot break cement or money
  • Lack of love yet an unbreakable class bond
• The way they choose to live their lives, their morality (or lack thereof), and how much they dream doesn't seem to matter. This, of course, is tragic and antithetical to the idea of the American Dream, which claims that class should be irrelevant and anyone can rise to the top.
• Still describes as 'together' by the end of the novel, despite the murdering, cheating and lying they went through class is a much stronger bond than love, the only