West Egg In The Great Gatsby

The setting and location of one’s house can convey a great deal about a person. It can provide numerous details about the person’s background, job, and personality. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald uses various settings, specifically the characters houses, to explain messages or themes. Every house in the novel is specific to that character and shows the personality of their owners. In this novel Fitzgerald relates, through the characters' houses, their different personalities and places in society

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald builds theme of personal ambition by using the setting and the characterization to show the significance of the main persona, Gatsby’s personal ambition. Fitzgerald uses the setting of East Egg and West Egg and characterization of Daisy and Dan Cody on the connection they have with Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby’s ambition is to achieve the American Dream. In Gatsby’s eyes, to achieve the American Dream consist of becoming the richest man and sharing his wealth with the woman he loves right by his side. Jay, based of his characterization, never sees himself as the poor man and

Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, he turned himself from a farm boy to one of the richest men in America at the time and bought himself a beautiful mansion on West Egg, Long Island with the other new millionaires. In contrast to the newly rich, there are those who have inherited their wealth from family before them such as Tom and Daisy Buchanan. These people were lucky to be born into their lives and reside on East Egg along with other family’s with “old money”. Readers come to easily

East Egg represents old money and the wealthier live there while the West Egg represents new money and “less fashionable of the two”; the ones who have become rich recently.

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses West Egg and East Egg as a symbol for class systems to reveal the differences between the two social classes. The difference between the two social classes are vast. East Egg refers to whom came into wealth. West Egg refers to whom carried down wealth from traditional upper-class families. During the 20th century, East Egg residents were more prestigious. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you had (Fitzgerald 1).” Many wealthy people were born into wealth. Some wealthy are born poor but had to earn their way up. “And I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool(Fitzgerald 30).” Women who were housewives in the 1920s didn’t get as much respect as Men did (BBC 7). “An Oxford man!” He was incredulous. “Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit (Fitzgerald 110).”

As Foster mentions in How To Read Literature Like A Professor, “literary geography is typically about humans inhabiting spaces, and at the same time spaces inhabiting humans”, a concept that Fitzgerald relies on to demonstrate the barriers heavily separating him from Daisy (Foster 173). Throughout The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses the two Eggs to demonstrate the large impact location has on Gatsby’s attempts to

It is commonly believed that all those who are wealthy adhere to a similar set of values, characteristics and have similar lifestyles. Fitzgerald provides the reader a clear view through the eyes of Nick Caraway of the differences and similarities that can be found between wealthy people in the roaring Twenties. Two characters that are very important to the story are Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Fitzgerald created two purposefully different characters- one that is easily despised, the other that although not perfect, is likeable- and united them in their love for money, the power that comes with it , and their haunt for the ultimate prize – Daisy. In this essay, we will compare Tom and

East Egg and West Egg are "identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay ... They are not perfect ovals ... but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual wonder to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size."(9) In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates different worlds, where many different people live amongst each other. The areas of East Egg and West Egg in Long Island find isolation not just geographically, “separated only by a courtesy bay” (9), but more significantly in the way the two societies contrast. Along with East and West Egg, Fitzgerald creates another symbol

During the roaring twenties, if you did not have wealth than you did not have success, luxury, or opportunities. In The Great Gatsby and articles, it reveals how people were entitled to things depending on their wealth. Wealth was represented as success and royalty other than something you work hard for and earn.

When it comes to discussing the characters in Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the characters that are brought up very little tend to be that of Tom Buchanan and George Wilson. This is odd considering that of all the characters in the book, they tend to be the most similar. This is shown by their attitudes towards women, their ways of showing violence, and their reactions to being cuckolded. However, it will also be discussing how these characters, as similar as one can be, differ in those very areas.

The similarities between the East and West Egg is that they both have money. They seem to live in style, although some do not show it off as much or

Gatsby All throughout The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are significant undertones of social class and wealth. We learn very quickly in the story about the West and East Eggs in which our main characters are residents of. Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby are fro West Egg, which is commonly associated with new money, or people who have recently found themselves wealthy often by working. Our other characters Daisy and Tom Buchanan live in East Egg which is where people with old money, money that was inherited from their families, live. Where the characters live, has a lot to do with how they present themselves and how they act.

    Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, location is a critical motif. The contrasts between East and West, East Egg and West Egg, and the two Eggs and New York serve important thematic roles and provide the backdrops for the main conflict. Yet, there needs to be a middle ground between each of these sites, a buffer zone, as it were; there is the great distance that separates East from West; there is the bay that separates East Egg from West Egg; and, there is the Valley of Ashes that separates Long Island from New York. The last of these is probably the most striking. Yet, the traditional literal interpretation does not serve Fitzgerald's theme as well as a more

Like East Egg and West Egg, they are both modern and uprising communities of New York. East Egg is where Daisy and Tom live. A place where people that are well educated, have a high status stay. Their origins have also come from the lavish and rich inheritance of American society. This is what is known as ‘Old Money’ people, the kind that defiance the poor. West Egg, is where Nick caraway and Gatsby lives. They are also wealthy people, but with a different background. Jay Gatsby is uneducated, but a rising newcomer in the fireball of wealth. As a comparison to the East Eggers, the west side lacks the polish standards of choice. Although Gatsby is kind hearted in the inside, he will always be an outsider to the high class. Because it wasn’t meant to be, it was a miracle from the roots of where he is from. One of the many themes from this book is presented in the movie from the angles of East Egg and West

The settings and backdrops in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, are essential elements to the formation of the characters, symbolic imagery and the overall plot development. Fitzgerald uses East and West Egg communities to portray two separate worlds and two classes of people that are technically the same their status, but fundamentally different in their ideals. The physical geography of the settings is representative of the distance between classes of the East and West Eggers. Every setting connotes a different tone and enhances the imagery of story line. From the wealthy class of the "eggs", the desolate "valley of ashes", to the chaos of Manhattan. The imagery provided by Fitzgerald becomes an important