Comparison Of Two Places In The Great Gatsby

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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 …show more content…

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 …show more content…

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

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