“Self-control!” Repeated Tom incredulously. “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.”
Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.
Read carefully the above passage from Chapter 7 of the novel.
In an essay (minimum 2 pages in length), perform a close analysis that discusses:
How this passage reflects Tom’s character / personality
How this passage adds to the novel’s meaning as a whole (What commentary is Fitzgerald making about life or society through this passage?).