This novel explains the differences of these two important settings of the great gatsby. In the
novel the author F. Scott Fitzgerald created theses to different places to show how certain places
and environments can affect how people act and even how they think. He also shows the
difference between the two places and people based off the interactions with each other.
Throughout the whole novel the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald compares East and West egg by
the characters characteristics, the way the two places function, and the heritage and what they
represent . One of the ways the author compares east and west egg is through the charactics of
the characters. For example, Diane Telgen concludes on how the West and the East differ with
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experience and innocence. This quote refers to the differences of the two sides and how they act and how they live.
In the novel they show that the West egg is an example of civil acts and more proper. They
have more class and do things different than the people in the East egg. In the East egg people
are more irresponsible and reckless. They do whatever they want with no thought of the
consequence. According to the novel that's the way the rich in the East live with no worries and
Problems. Also in the novel Nick says at the end to Tom and Daisy” careless people who smashed
up things and creates and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or
whatever it was that kept them together…”This quote basically explains the way people that live
in the east are and act. In the West the people are very different from the people in the East, in
the west people are more aware of everything like problems. They have to work and gain their
wealth and money by what they did or what there doing at the moment. The people in the west
tend to be more self conscious about what they do and how they move.
However, Fitzgerald shows another way how East and West egg contrast from each other.
In the novel the author shows the difrencances by how each place functions. Like in the East
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its removed from the city father away from the horrible real world. People over there don't have to work and can retire from the hustle. The East is described as corrupt,unfair, and materialistic, while the west is full of relativity innocence, unsophisticated minds. For example in the novel when Nick had visited the east with Gatsby when he returned to the west he was traumatized by the life of the east.
Also in the West it's like there's a system everyone has a purpose and
someone thing to do in life or work for. It's like everyone has a reason for what they do on a
daily bases and live for the American dream. The whole point of the two different places is to
show how people are when things are handed to them , and how messed up a city can get if no
one is responsible for what they do. Another difference of east and west is that unlike the east the
city is like a cycle everyone has a part and does something that helps the city function. However
the east is where everyone does their own thing they live in there own space only worrying about
themselves.So the novel Great Gatsby shows u differences of the two places functions and
Wellbeing.
Finally, Fitzgerald also used East and West egg to compare the way people get there
money and how they inherited what they have and also what they stand for and represent
according to Fitzgerald. For example East egg contains mostly families with hereditary wealth as
known in the novel as “Old Money”. Which is basically money that has been passed down
from generation to generation that has been already been made. In the West contains families of New Money” who have gained their finances from wealth recently. So that means people in the West had to work way harder than most in the East, because they had to still work for the money they have or they don't have enough to just be free of work and worries like many in the east. Another thing that is different is what they both represent to the author. In the novel the East represents tragedy of destruction, dishonesty, and fear. However the West is a place of dreams and is more controlled and organized. Everyone there has a purpose, also its a place where u can accomplish your dreams and hopes. Fitzgerald uses West egg as a place to show a example of the American dream. For example this quote by Gale, “West as the green breast of a new world, a reflection of a man's dream, an America subsumed in this image.” This quote means that Fitzgerald made East to be an example of how america should be and thrive. F. Scott Fitzgerald Novel The Great Gatsby has many contrast and comparisons between East and West egg. In the novel these two places were close but so different from each other. From how the people are and act, and how the city's function, and the heritage of the money that the people in both sections work.
In the third sentence, note the metaphor and explain Fitzgerald’s choice of this particular metaphor.
Many forms of literature portray conflicting or contrasting areas in which each place has a significant impact on the story. These opposing forces add to the overall theme, symbolism and meaning of the story. In the ‘Great Gatsby’, by F. Scott Fitzgerald these areas are the ‘East Egg’ and the ‘West Egg’. To illustrate the East Egg represents the former or classic establishment. It consists of wealthy families who have handed down money from generation to generation. However the West egg includes money or fortunes that recently have been acquired. The West Egg sets the standard of the American Dream theme; working hard to become successful. Notably, the Great Gatsby reveals characters that come from both areas and impact the story and other locations.
Fitzgerald’s uses setting to describe how West Egg and East Egg represent new money and old money. West Egg represents the new money and East Egg, the old money. While they seem quite similar at first, because they are expensive places to live. West Egg is described as “the less fashionable of the two, although there is little contrast between them.” But, yet there are many differences. Such as when Nick describes his own house as "an eyesore" that is "squeezed between
Fitzgerald shows the contrasting features between the West and East Egg in New York. Fitzgerald describes Gatsby's house and the house of Tom and Daisy to show the difference between the social classes on either side of the bay. The protagonist of the story, Nick, describes Gatsby's house as, "The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard…with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby's mansion" (Fitzgerald 9). Gatsby lives on the West Egg of New York where those who are newly rich live. The "new money" generally have a trashy sense of taste, and have the tendency to flaunt their money. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby as the icon of "new money" because every weekend Gatsby flaunts his riches by throwing extravagant parties which all of New York attend. On the other hand, the East Egg or "old money" have a more classy taste compared to those of the West Egg. Fitzgerald elaborates on the aesthetic differences of "old money" and "new money" when he writes, "Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water…their house was more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay" (Fitzgerald 10). Fitzgerald’s description of the differenc...
In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald contrasts the loving conditions and lifestyles of the wealthy and poor through the Buchanan’s and the Wilson’s. In the heart of the first chapter, Fitzgerald describes the home of the Buchanan’s, and in the beginning of the second chapter, he describes the home of the Wilson’s. The contrasting lifestyles are apparent in Fitzgerald’s descriptions due to his use of diction, details, and imagery. This dichotomy in social status holds major importance throughout the plot structure of the novel.
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around you it does affect how you think and your opinion on certain things. However if it’s your
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In conclusion, the setting and geography of The Great Gatsby is an exceptional influence on many things such as characters’ personalities, themes, and foreshadowing. It relates characters to where they live and how they act. East and West Egg, the valley of the ashes, and Nee York City all house different types of people that the main characters in the story represent. The setting, especially the weather foreshadows what will happen that day in the novel. If one regards the locations and conditions they may find out a lot about what a certain character is planning to do or how they are feeling on that particular day. Therefore, the setting and geography dictates many things about the characters such as social status, personality traits, and background, while the weather incorporates a character’s feelings into the setting.
often criminal means of living in order to survive. He explains this by stating, “The more that is
East egg in the novel is represented through its inhabitants like Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker. Tom
In both books status is the most significant thing in their society. Okonkwo and Tom 's high ranking in their society, reveals the cultural value of status which causes them to be careless. In The Great Gatsby’ social status is an immensely significant part as it separates geographical locations in the novel but above all, portrays the mentality of citizens belonging to different social class. The characters in the novel are separated by the money that they have and where they work or live. East Egg reflects a higher class society where the people are filthy rich, the author refer to them as “old money”. The people in East Egg are usually well educated and they have some sort of hatred towards the “new money”, which is known as West Egg. The people of West Egg are rich, but have only became rich recently.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book about status and wealth and disappointment. Two of the main characters, Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, seem to have everything but yet want more. At first glance, it seems that they have most things in common. Both are wealthy, popular, and love Daisy. However, once examined more closely, their wealth, their popularity, and their love for Daisy define them as very different one from the other.
Analysing The West: Unique, Not Universal. Throughout history, Western civilization has been an emerging force behind change in foreign societies. This is the concept that is discussed in the article, the West Unique, Not Universal, written by Samuel Huntington. The author makes a very clear thesis statement and uses a variety of evidence to support it. This article has a very convincing point.
Fitzgerald’s style might be called imagistic. The language used is full of images-concrete verbal pictures. There is water imagery in descriptions of the rain, Long Island Sound, and the swimming pool. There are the Godlike eyes of Dr. Eckleburg and in words such as incarnation, and grail. Abstract images are used as well when there is referred to the artificial world as snobbery, sadness. These images do not only describe the world in which the...