Tom Buchanan and The Displays of Racism and White Nationalism in The Great Gatsby

Let's take an intimate look at the characterization of Tom
Buchanano: a vile, powerful, wealthy, hypocritical, and racist
character by picking at the words that Fitzgerald uses to
describe such a man who existed in numerous manifgestiations in
the eugenics of the 1920s and 1930s, leading up to World War II
and The Holocaust. 


Eugenics: "the study of how to arrange reproduction within a
human population to increase the occurrence of heritable
characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Sir
Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, eugenics
was increasingly discredited as unscientific and racially biased
during the 20th century, especially after the adoption of its
doctrines by the Nazis in order to justify their treatment of
Jews, disabled people, and other minority groups."