tter what seems to occur, Daisy seems to be able to keep an untarnishedreputation within the crowd quite well. Nick has a very strong opinion of Tom. 10"Angry as I was, as we all were, I wastempted to laugh whenever he opened his mouth. The transition for libertine to prig wasso complete." Nick feels Tom is being hypocritical. Tom goes from (libertine) a man whois desolate in his sexual conduct to (prig) a narrow minded man who believes that he isfar more superior than anyone else. 11"'I told him the truth,' he said. 'He came to the doorwhile we were getting ready to leave, and when I sent down word that we weren't in hetried to force his way upstairs. He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him whoowned the car. ... 'what if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dustinto your eyes just like he did in Daisy's, but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle likeyou'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car.'" Tom again is being very narrowminded, and thinking he is superior to everyone else. Tom fails to see that due to hismisconception of what is right and wrong, he could have saved two lives that night. 12"I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him,entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tomand Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their moneyor their cast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other peopleclean up the mess they had made...." Nick couldn't forgive Tom for what he had done, butrealizes that in Tom's mind and situation, Tom felt his actions were justified. Nick alsomakes a judgement on Tom and Daisy as a couple in this quote, Nick states that they arereckless people, who use their money to conceal and clean up any problems that theymay have encountered. Another character that Nick forms an opinion on, is Jordan Baker, the womanwhom he has an affair ...
