Where did Great Gatsby's Gryffindors Go?
Sorting various Great Gatsby characters into Hogwarts houses has made me realize that there's another underlying theme about the presence of shallowness that Fitzgerald presents to us through the majority of his character's personalities. 1. Tom - Evidenced from Tom's overall brutish personality, we all know that Tom Buchanan is the most arrogant, conceited, insulting character in The Great Gatsby. He had 0 moral convictions all throughout his affair with Myrtle (I'm not calling it a love affair because breaking another's nose certainly doesn't seem full of love), but when he had a sneaking suspicion that something was going on between Gatsby and Daisy, he started itching for a confrontation. He holds everyone around him to moral standards that he doesn't even bother with. He also hails from an upper class, wealthy family and takes pleasure in being part of social circles that are unattainable to others, like at Yale with Nick, which leads me to believe tha...