The Great Gatsby Full Cast Audiobook
GD Kalmbach for Tom Buchanan
Tom is a rich, selfish, racist, and arrogant man. He represents old money and Fitzgerald didn't write him very sympathetically. He talks like he's educated and better than everyone else, but his ego is very fragile. He goes from overbearing to desperate to devastated over the course of the book. While he is a terribly unlikeable character, he shouldn't sound like a cartoonish bully.
[You're having a conversation with your wife's cousin and her friend and you're trying to sound intellectual]
(Confident and Arrogant)
Civilization’s going to pieces! I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard? Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be- will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff, it’s been proved.
[You're speaking to the man you suspect has been sleeping with your wife, who you also believe to be a fraud]
(Trying to keep composure and failing)
Self control!? I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that’s the idea you can count me out...Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.
[Your wife has just told you she never loved you]
(Defeated)
Not at Kapiolani?
(beat)
Not that day I carried you down from the Punch Bowl to keep your shoes dry?
(beat)
...Daisy?
