The Great Gatsby: Karma

Tom Buchanan has now gotten a little taste of his own medicine when he realizes that his wife is having an affair.  He then runs into Mr. Wilson while filling up Gatsby's automobile's gas tank and sees first hand how distraught he is as a result of finding to that his own wife was having an affair, "He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick" (Fitzgerald, 124).  This fact makes me feel a lot less pity for Tom.  I still think that it is a horrible thing that his wife might run off with her ex-lover, but how can Tom condemn her when he was unfaithful first?  Or is that how society functioned back then; men being able to get away with much more than any woman.  That would not surprise me.  I also find it extremely odd that the affairs of these marries couples are almost common knowledge to society.  Tom's own wife knows! And when Nick frame to diner at their house the first time, Jordan was surprised that he hadn't heard of the scandal, not the other way around as one would think.  Daisy was powerless to do anything, so Tom simply didn't car that she knew apparently.  It is also hard to blame Daisy for wanting a little more affection and devotion than her cheating husband, and therefore engaging a relationship with someone who loves her.  That affection is hard to pass up.