Tom Buchanan

"Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven — a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. "

“The rumor is,” whispered Jordan, “that that’s Tom’s girl on the telephone.”

That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a ——”