The Gatsby Project
The Straight Aero for Tom Buchanan
Male, 30's, Gruff husky tenor
"a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner."
The closest thing to a main antagonist, Tom Buchanan is the proto-highschool has-been, or rather college has-been. He had been "one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax." Come into his family fortune, he now spends his time playing polo, reading racist literature, and cheating on his wife.
Of note: You must be comfortable with spouting racist rhetoric.
(SELF ASSURED, BUT ONLY JUST AND DESPERATELY SO)
This idea is that we’re Nordics. I am, and you are and
you are and— and we’ve produced all the things that go to make civilization—oh, science and art and all that. Do you see?(SLIGHTLY JOVIAL, RELAXED)
[Looking at the ash around him] Terrible place, isn’t it. It does her good to get away.
Her husband object? Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive.
(INDIGNANT AND DEFENSIVE)
What if I
did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw
dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy’s but he was a
tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and
never even stopped his car.
