Tom's father is wealthy but left his family several years earlier and took all of their money with him, so Tom has a very conflicted relationship with wealth and the upper-class social scene, which is both familiar and unfamiliar to him.
Tom's father is wealthy but left his family several years earlier during his divorce, and apparently took all of their money with him. Tom appears to have a very conflicted relationship with wealth and the upper-class social scene, which is both familiar and unfamiliar to him.