What Does The West Egg Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are two main settings in book that are symbolic, East Egg and West Egg. East Egg represents old money and West Egg represents new money. The characters who reside in the West Egg are Nick and Gatsby. The characters who reside in the East Egg are Tom and Daisy. East is described as “... who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near” (Fitzgerald 61). This quote means that people in the East Egg are more snobby, greedy, and mean from those who live in West Egg because they have families who had

Brayden Mellon Ms. Leimenstoll Lit & Lang 10 Honors 10 May 2024 How the East and West Eggs Cracked The Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, shows how the East Egg and West Egg represent the social class in the 1920s on Long Island. These two sides represent the difference between the people who live here and the wealth that goes along with it. In The Great Gatsby, the East Egg and West Egg represent social class, with the old money in the East Egg and the new money in the West Egg, and how these two neighborhoods correlate to wealth and social status in Long Island during the 1920s. In The Great Gatsby, East Egg represents old money and inheritance. East Egg is represented as having longer-standing wealth and older connections.

The East and West Egg is the two final geographical settings in the novel and are home to the upper-class of the region. West Egg is the western one of the two peninsulas that extends outwards from Long Island; the eastern peninsula being aptly named East Egg. The New Money, or those who were recently made rich thanks to the post-war economic growth live in East Egg, while the East Eggers, the Old Money, inherited most of their wealth. Yet, many of those in both Egg are still dissatisfied, making two Eggs symbolic representation of the unquenchable lust for more capital and social reputation brought by the distorted American Dream presented in the novel. For one, although gifted with extreme wealth, West Eggers still craves for more money and status to

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.

In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the reader is shown repeated symbols throughout the novel. These symbols include the green light, the valley of ashes, and doctor TJ Eckleburg. These symbols represent the disillusionment of the American dream, character’s aspirations, and the moral decay of society in the 1920s. Throughout the novel, the green light at the end of Tom and Daisy's dock serves as a symbol of Gatsby's hopes and dreams, in his pursuit of the American Dream and as well his longing to reconnect with Daisy. When Nick moves into the house next to Gatsby, he notices something peculiar about something across the lake.

The Great Gatsby is one of the most read pieces of literature throughout the current modern Western world. High school kids all across the globe must learn and read it as part of their curriculum. One of the aspects that makes this novel so notable is that Fitzgerald, at no point in the story, needs to convey to his audience the theme of his novel directly. The main points of his novel are brought out by the powerful symbols he infuses in the book. Not only does he use them to convey his theme, but also ties them in to the rest of the story. Every aspect of this book is affected by the presence of one of his symbols. Through the use of the green light, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, and the Valley of the Ashes as symbols,

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, setting prominently displays the main themes of upper class and societal segregation in the early 1920’s. Fitzgerald makes this apparent in the wealthy, New York areas, East egg and West egg, and in the love affair between West egger Jay Gatsby, and East egger Daisy Buchanon, despite the immense wealth and power one must have to live in either area. The main difference between the two areas being how the money had been attained, new money being the West eggers and old, family money being the East eggers.

The narrator Nick goes into detail about the history and the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. Gatsby and Daisy meet while Gatsby is in the army, Daisy growing up wealthy and Gatsby a poor young man has no right being with her, Gatsby gives Daisy a sense of security and they have a short relationship. One night when they are together they kiss and Fitzgerald writes, “She had caught a cold, and it made her voice huskier and more charming than ever, and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor” (Fitzgerald 150). While poor people are struggling in life, Fitzgerald refers Daisy to money. Throughout Daisy’s life she doesn't experience, struggles and instead lives a life with money that gives her anything she wants. Gatsby on the other hand is poor and sees what money gives you, Gatsby sees that money puts someone above people like him. In reality Daisy isn't living a life she appears to be, she is using men in the army to fill her void of loneliness, if she doesn't have money the men wouldn't all be in love with her. She puts herself as a prized possession for them to have because she has money. Daisy at a young age, and when she gets older uses her money to assert herself over others.

Freewrite: I am going to write about the usage of symbols in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. There are many symbols used in the book The Great Gatsby such as the green light, the valley of ashes, and the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg. The green light represents Jay Gatsby’s hopes, as well as his dreams, for the future. Because many people strive to become rich in The Great Gatsby, the result is moral and social decay. The valley of ashes represents social and moral decay, and it also represents the predicament of poor because the poor live in the filthy ashes and lose their passion as a result from living in the ashes. Lastly, I believe the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, which are a pair of eyes painted on a billboard over the valley of ashes, represent God judging American society. So, Fitzgerald uses the green light, the valley of ashes, and the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg to give his book a deeper meaning.

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel that is swimming with several types of symbolisms and motifs. Each element helps expand the plot of the storyline and in turn, helps us better analyze the main characters and their thoughts and feelings. The main symbols that will be analyzed in this essay are the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg and the eyes of ‘Owl Eyes’, the symbolization of the green light and the other colors referenced, and locations like the Valley of Ashes, East and West Egg, and New York City. I will also discuss the meaning behind Daisy’s voice and how Fitzgerald uses language to maintain her personality throughout the novel.

A few symbolisms in novels are as memorable as the green light in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Shining at the end of Daisy’s dock, it is close enough to be seen, but too far away to be reached. Still, Gatsby, an eternal optimist, stares at it at night, as if it showed him that all his far-away dreams were about to come true. The green light in The Great Gatsby is symbolic of hope, a source of inspiration, and a representation of the American Dream to Gatsby and to the novel’s readers.

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald presents East Egg and West Egg as polar opposites in all aspects “except shape and size”. Fitzgerald depicts these peninsulas as isolated communities, free from the problems of “the valley of the ashes”, and utilizes the two Eggs as the primary settings in the novel. Fitzgerald first introduces the “enormous eggs” separated by a “courtesy bay”, by describing West Egg as the “less fashionable of the two”. East Egg is lined with “white palaces… glittered along the water”. Fitzgerald presents Nick Carraway as the perfect narrator for such a novel, as he stays on West Egg next to Jay Gatsby, but is acquainted with Daisy and Tom Buchannan of East Egg. His observations and interactions bridge the two settings and demonstrate the idea of old money (East Egg) versus new money (West Egg).

The 1920s was a pivotal part of American history. This decade was the decade between the world wars and is often referred to by many as the Roaring Twenties as it was a time for great celebration and advancement as modern mass production and consumption was introduced and many Americans began to increase their material wealth. While this decade brought on the lux and lavish of life, it also brought with it many different types of people as well as objects. While reading The Great Gatsby, a novel by F.Scott Fitzgerald, these objects are referred to as symbols and in reading the novel, are able to provide many shades of meaning to the reader depending on how the reader views and interprets the symbols. The ash heaps and valley of ashes, the billboard sign of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, and the green dock light are some of the many symbols in the novel that can provide different shades of meaning to the reader through the course of the novel.

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald displays numerous symbols spread throughout the story that improves the reader’s understanding of the story. Such symbols that Fitzgerald uses hold explicit meaning that shed light on the events throughout the novel. The Great Gatsby contains a cavalcade of symbols. This becomes evident when the story begins with Gatsby reaching for a green light to even the characters themselves who are representative of abstract concepts like racism, adultery, etc, which can be seen with the actions of the characters.

One example of symbolism represented in the novel is the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. This symbol represents the idea that Gatsby’s dream of Daisy is out of reach and will forever just be a light out into the distance. Because he is so focused on the illusion of Daisy, it alters Gatsby’s state of mind and eventually becomes the motive to his death. Since then it has left him with forever longing for her and his dreams of rekindling that lost love they had. This has effected Gatsby tramatically because everything he does from throwing an extravagant party or just simply wanting to attain wealth has always been an attempt the get Daisy back. This symbolism relates to the theme of the American dream because of how Gatsby’s life