... 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 and still do flood into America's shores in hopes of a better life. Nick himself described America ... as once being "a fresh, green breast of the new world that had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams, man must have held his breath in presence of this ... continent- (Fitzgerald 189). To this day, immigrants still flood to America and n...

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