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Why Tybalt is angry at Romeo?

Tybalt is just a young man like Romeo, but he has a belligerent disposition and an inflated opinion of his importance in the Capulet family. He is angry at Romeo for at least two reasons. The first one is that he feels personally offended by the way Romeo and his friends crashed the big Capulet party. Going back to the party in Act 1, Scene 3, Tybalt is threatening violence right there in the midst of the festivities when he is severely reprimanded and humiliated by his uncle Lord Capulet, who calls him "goodman boy" and "a saucy boy." The second reason why Tybalt is so angry at Romeo is that he is still stinging from the rebuke he received from his uncle. He blames Romeo for this tongue-lashing as well. This may be irrational, but it is not atypical of human nature.

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