In The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan represents the theme of wealth, and marriage in this book. Tom is the husband of Daisy Buchanan and also a classmate and club member of Nick Carraway at Yale. The detail about Tom; his personality, and his marriage are important in this novel. In the novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of the book; creates an unlikeable character in Tom. Although Fitzgerald creates a bad image of Tom, he is fascinated by him, because he has power. Tom comes from an old social wealthy family; thus he is so rich that can cause people to blame him: ‘His family were enormously wealthy – even in college his freedom with money was a matter of reproach’, it seem that he can freely get money to buy anything he wants. Tom is a person who likes to showoff, ‘but now he’d left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away’: Tom wants to make a clear to the surrounding houses that he is rich, because he does not want the neighborhood suspects him. Further, he also talks about his polo ponies to show that he is ‘old money’. From this point of view, it is easy to realize that Tom is the kind of person who thinks highly of how the others think about him. After knowing about his background, Fitzgerald starts to describe the appearance of Tom: ‘the enormous power of body’ with the final sentences ‘It was a body capable of enormous leverage – a cruel body’; it seems that Tom has a very perfect body with muscles. The word ‘power’ is seem that he has enough energy from physical sport. ‘Cruel’ is a bad word, but it describes as Tom body, it can mean that he might use physical energy for fight at same point. From this point of view, it can believe that he is violent. At addition, he has a very intimidating deep voice, ‘gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness by conveyed’; somehow the use of ‘fractiousness’ gives the