Tom Buchanan's character serves Primarily to exemplify?

• A. Intellectual curiosity
• B. Moral fiber
• C. Bankrupt imagination
• D. Courage

Answer: (C)

This item focuses on how a character’s outlook reveals a mindset that is closed off, self-satisfied, and morally muted in a changing world. Tom’s fixation on wealth, status, and dominance shows no real interest in growth or in understanding others. He scoffs at Gatsby’s attempt to reinvent himself and treats people as extensions of his social power, rather than as individuals with their own dreams. That refusal to imagine life beyond the inherited class and the easy pleasures of the old order signals a mind that is spiritually barren and creatively bankrupt. You can see that his behavior isn’t about curiosity or moral strength or courage; it’s about clinging to a fixed world and never expanding beyond it.