What is the surname of Tom and Daisy in The Great Gatsby?
Answer
Buchanan
The surname of Tom and Daisy in The Great Gatsby is Buchanan.
Tom Buchanan is a wealthy former football player and polo enthusiast, while Daisy Fay Buchanan is his wife and a socialite from Louisville, Kentucky. They live in East Egg, the novel’s enclave of established or “old money” wealth, across the bay from Gatsby’s West Egg mansion.
The Buchanans’ marriage is central to the plot. Daisy had previously loved Gatsby, but she married Tom while Gatsby was serving overseas. Their reunion drives Gatsby’s attempt to recover the past, while Tom’s jealousy exposes the conflict between inherited status and Gatsby’s newly acquired fortune.
The other choices refer to different characters: Wilson is Myrtle’s married surname, McKee belongs to a photographer encountered in New York, and Carraway is Nick’s surname. Buchanan is therefore the single canonical answer for both Tom and Daisy.