One way that Tom Buchanan and George Wilson are alike is that their wives are unfaithful. Tom's wife Daisy begins an extramarital affair with Jay Gatsby, and Myrtle Wilson begins an affair with Tom Buchanan.
Another way the men are similar is the way they react when they discover their wives are unfaithful. Both are blindly angry, and both direct their anger at Jay Gatsby. One could argue that Tom's anger is justified--after all, Jay Gatsby is trying to steal his wife. However, George Wilson directs his anger at the wrong man. Because George Wilson thinks that Myrtle was killed by her lover, the driver of the Rolls Royce, he goes looking for its owner. What he doesn't know--and what Tom Buchanan doesn't tell him--is that Gatsby is not the man Myrtle has been seeing.
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