The book contains many examples of characters portraying these negative attributes. Daisy looked desperately from one to the other. “you’re causing an argument.” Please have some control over yourself. (Fitzgerald chapter 7, page 129) In this quote, Daisy shows just a glimpse of Tom's uncontrollable anger and his carelessness on how to treat others because of the money he has and the way he considers himself in relation to others. Gatsby also repeatedly shows his main weakness in this book, namely love, but no more clearly than in this quote. “Your wife doesn’t love you,” Gatsby said. “She never loved you. She loves me. (Fitzgerald Chapter 7 Pg. 130) Gatsby really thinks that after all this time he and Daisy were apart, she was just going to give up the life she had made after he left and be with him. His love for a woman let his mind think of only one thing, getting her back, and let his eyes water with all that emotion and carelessness and he even took responsibility for his mistake when she crushed Myrtle Wilson. He was deeply in love, he was willing to risk his life and name for her and that ended up being Gatsby's downfall. He wasn't the only one with flaws, Jordan Baker was also a liar and a cheat, as Nick discovered throughout the book. “She was incurably dishonest” (Fitzgerald Chapter 3 Pg. 58) Nick had lost all hope in Jordan and when he finds out everything about her, he drops her like a bad habit unlike Gatsby and it goes without saying that all these characters were very wild and would. getting drunk unlike Nick who holds himself to a higher standard than most characters. “I have only been drunk twice in my life, and the second time was this afternoon” (Fitzgerald, Chapter 2, page 29). This quote actually only shows readers