... The Great Gatsby, has attained the wealth that he so desired and lives in a gaudy mansion in New York's West Egg, where he practices a life of extravagance. New York's West Egg residential section in Contrast to its East Side is symbolic of the social hierarchies in America of the 1920's. The burgeoning economy ... 's library are actually real and not covers. Owl's statement is symbolic of the double standards and hypocrisy among the rich of the West and East Egg- how they use opulence to mask their moral depravity. Owls statements about Gatsby serves to show that there is something diffe...

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... vast carelessness- (Yoder). Through this setting, Fitzgerald emphasized the decomposition of the American dream to greed and materialism during this time period. And with the distinct divisions between West Egg and East Egg, Fitzgerald shows the social divisions in American society, even at the upper class, a fact still relevant to today's America. New York itself symbolizes immigrant America, where immigrants used to ... ...

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... wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens... of ash grey men". In contrast, there was Long Island which was divided into East Egg, home to the "old rich" where "white palaces glittered along the water" and West Egg, "the less fashionable of the two". This division among classes emphasizes the deterioration of an American dream and reinforces the significance of materialism ... ...

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... "never loved Tom"(133), it unveils how meritocracy isn't existent at all in this novel. Gatsby plans for such a long period of time by buying a house in West Egg, arranging their nostalgic meeting, and reinventing himself from James Gatz into the idea of Jay Gatsby, which is a concept he is "faithful until the end"(98), but Gatsby ... ...

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... because he is not of the long-standing American upper class. Though Gatsby is fabulously wealthy, he is still regarded as socially inferior as part of the nouveau riche West Egg. Perhaps Nick sums Gatsby's fate well when he states, " So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." (Fitzgerald 189). Here, Nick reveals Gatsby's lifelong ... ...

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