“… and let other people clean up the mess that they had made…”  pg 188

“Then there were bloody towels on the bathroom floor and women’s voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain.”  Pg. 41

In this scene, Tom hit Myrtle in the nose after she refused to cease repeating Daisy’s name.  He then left to cleaning work to the women around him.  It is an example of Tom letting someone else do his dirty work and clean up after him. It is a sign in his character that he lacks responsibility and/or remorse.  Perhaps this has something to do with his childhood.  If he were the youngest of a large family, there would have always been people to clean up after him.