East Egg vs. West Egg

East Egg

Map of Long Island Sound

West Egg

West Egg is where Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby live. "The less Fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them." It is the less fashionable city, but the West is more traditional. West Egg also is the older city of the two. The people that live there are newly rich, and once you are just rich you move on up to East Egg. The person that is well know on this Long Island is Jay Gatsby. People come from all over just to attend his fabulous parties.

Across the bay was East Egg the more fashionable and very rich place to live. That is were Daisy and Tom Buchanans, and Jordan Baker live. People here are in very good physical condition and the men wear nice clothes and they own horses and ponies. The woman are there just as fools, living the rich life and making other people jealous of their luxurious lives. "The East is connected to the moral decay and social cynicism of New York." The story takes place in both of these cities and New York.

Works Cited

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 1925