Excessive Behavior in The Great GatsbyExcessive behavior is rarely a good thing. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a love story set during the Roaring Twenties. Excess often leads to unhappiness. In this novel, Tom's excessive behavior leads to his and others' unhappiness. Tom's excessive wealth, recklessness, aggression, and abuse led to the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and Jay Gatsby, resulting in unhappiness for Tom as well as everyone involved. Tom is excessively wealthy, careless, aggressive and abusive. Tom inherited a large sum of money from his relatives. The narrator, Nick, says, "His family was extremely wealthy – even in college, his freedom with money was a subject of reproach" (10). He has excessive wealth and uses it for himself. He “spent a year in France, for no particular reason,” surely spending a lot of money (10). He lives among “the white palaces of fashion »...