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Tom Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

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Introduction: Throughout this essay, the stereotypic villain will be analyzed as presented in the character of Tom Buchanan in one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most renowned novels and of greatest literary significance currently – The Great Gatsby. This novel, written in the 1920s, alludes to the vices and excesses of the generation of the so called ‘Jazz Age’ or ‘Roaring Twenties.’ Every different character of this novel presents a different well developed archetype that contributes and helps the writer into conveying the defects or flaws of the contemporary glorified ‘American Dream.’ The villain archetype is composed by certain characteristics that not only allow the reader to recognize the antithesis of the main character of the novel,

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