The Barbarian -- “lives on the fruits of the industrial community rather than within it . . . a man who wastes his money on time and amusements and unnecessary goods” -- Thorstein Veblen
“The idea is that we’re Nordics . . . And we’ve produced all the things that go to make civilization -- oh, science and art, and all that. Do you see?”(Fitzgerald 12-13).
"[Tom Buchanan is]one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax . . . ” (Fitzgerald 6).
The anti-thesis of The Self-Made Man -- Gatsby -- Tom Buchanan is “ . . . the hereditary millionaire [who becomes] a consumer” (Lena, par.12).
“Mr. Buchanan, the polo player”(Fitzgerald 105).
