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All throughout The Great Gatsby, we see people cheating on their wives or husbands cheating on their wives. It was a happy but very sad time in American history. Fitzgerald perfectly reveals this in his book with the characters Tom Buchanan and George Wilson. These men are different yet are the same in many ways. Either they had their wife cheating on them or they were cheating on their wife. With Tom, he was cheating on his wife, while Wilson had his wife cheat on him. These men represent the men of that time and what went through many of the relationships of that time.
Tom Buchanan was the man that every girl wanted. He was athletic, good looking, and came from a wealthy old family. George Wilson was from the lower class and did not have much money to live off. …show more content…
He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive” (Fitzgerald 26). Tom on the other hand was told up front basically by Daisy herself, though in a subtle manor. “She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago” (Fitzgerald 119). He gets very angry and erratic after that.

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Men during this time did not appreciate women like they should have. Tom was just like most men, cheating on his wife and not really caring about her. But then there are the other men who truly love their wives and would do anything for them, just like Wilson. For some unknown reason, men see women as property. Something that they can show off and present like a trophy and that is all. Women need to be treated with respect and a degree of equality. It also shows that men’s nature can be either geared towards evil or good, depending on the mentality of that person. That is possibly why Tom cheated on his wife, somewhat abused his mistress, and how he handled being told he was being cheated on. The same could go for Wilson, but on a different

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