... of this novel. Each character from the novel helps support the differences of social class and the four main locations used by Fitzgerald; The East Egg, The West Egg, The Valley of Ashes, and New York City. In The Great Gatsby "geographical locations separate social classes" (Hoggart 204). Hoggart explains ... partially on their own. Nick Carroway is educated at Yale and is beginning to start his career in bonds when he first moves to West Egg. He is an honest and helpful man with good moral qualities. He helps his girlfriend Jordan Baker with her problems revolving around cheating. But ....

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... Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the story and is a protagonist. He is from Minnesota and he came to West Egg, to learn bond business. Nick is an honest and a brave guy who attended Yale University after graduating from high school. In 1917, he was sent to ... France, when the United States entered the Great War in order to fulfil his military service. Nick's cousin, Daisy Buchanan lives in East Egg, and is also a character of this play. He observes a lot around him. He is there during every incident that happens in this novel. James Gatz .....

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... to Gatsby that she has loved Tom during their marriage. Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby become excited and they decide to leave the city and head back to East Egg, Gatsby and Daisy in Gatsby's car, while the others drive Tom's coupe. As Gatsby and Daisy are driving home, they pass George Wilson, Myrtle Wilson's ... knows Tom is not the culprit. George suspects whoever killed his wife was also her lover. As Tom, Nick, and Jordan arrive back in East Egg, Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy was the driver when the car struck Myrtle. Nick instantly thinks that Tom should never know because Tom would t...

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... it was a determining factor in the community and in the company which one kept. In Fitzgerald's novel, the town is split into two sections which are East and West Egg. East Egg is filled with riches and arrogance and is where all the "old money" settles. Old money is when someone is born into wealth and their entire family before them has ... , is filled with "new money" which is money obtained by people who've had to work for it, legally or illegally. West Egg and Nick represent Fitzgerald and his way of life and East Egg is those duplicitous people of the "roaring twenties." Almost eve...

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... money or in this case, traditionally inheriting from the past. Tom and Daisy Buchanan lives in a colonial mansion in the West Egg representing established wealth, meanwhile Gatsby purchases an imitation of a European mansion in the East Egg. Gatsby's establishment clearly indicates that he has no sense of tradition and copies the style of others. It is a barrier ... for almost every character. The East and West Egg acts as a symbol of this in its physical makeup. Tom and Daisy live on the East which is far more refined and well developed. Nick and ... the West which is for people who d...

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... asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the stylish East Egg district of Long Island. She is ironic and somewhat cynical, and behaves apparently to mask her pain at her husband's constant infidelity. Tom Buchanan: ... freeloader who almost lives at Gatsby's mansion, taking advantage of Gatsby's wealth and generosity, but he failed to attend Gatsby's funeral. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a former classmate of Nick's at Yale. Daisy and Tom ...

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... wealth to surround himself with material goods and supposed prestige. He believes that money is the key to unlocking the door to a higher social standing in the upper class East Egg, and ultimately, to the object of his dream, Daisy Buchanan. Everything revolves around Daisy; he even "revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from ... is for sale, but he doesn't have the right type of currency." (Bruccoli vii) Gatsby's wealth is all wrong, it is precisely why he lives on the West Egg rather than the East Egg. Not only is he not "old" money, his "myste...

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... of Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story, quickly became disillusioned with the upper social class after having dinner at their home on the fashionable East Egg Island. "Nick is forced unwillingly to observe the violent contrast between their opportunities- what is implied by the gracious surface of their existence- and the seamy underside which is it ... betrayed by the class he has idealized for so long. For Gatsby, the failure of the rich has disastrous consequences. Gatsby's desire to achieve his dream leads him to West Egg Island. He purchased a mansion a...

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... Long Island, where Fitzgerald lived between 1922-24, inspired the setting of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's biographer, Andrew Turnbull, noted that while Fitzgerald was living there, his magic word was "egg." People that Scott liked were referred to as "good eggs" or "colossal eggs," and people he did not like were considered "bad eggs" or "unspeakable eggs." Fitzgerald's favourite slang expressions ... were converted in the novel into the more well-to-do East Egg (based on Manhasset) where Tom and Daisy lived, and the generally more simple West Egg (based on Great Neck) where Nick live...

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... materialism. Fitzgerald accomplishes this through the use of symbols such as the Valley of Ashes, the Green Light, Gatsby's house, and the Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. Mid-way between West Egg and New York City, the Valley of Ashes lays. It is described as: A fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take ... so now they must live in the shadows of everyone else that did. The Valley can also be interpreted as a foreshadowing to the demise of Gatsby. To get to West Egg one must travel through the valley, a journey that Gatsby ventu...

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... . Tom and Daisy Buchanan's self-centered use of wealth causes them to lead empty lives that destroy the lives of those around them. Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man living in East Egg off of an inheritance, and the husband of Daisy Buchanan, uses his arrogance as an extension of his attempt to isolate himself in his social strata. He is a "crude arrogant ... aimlessly looking for meaning in her life. "She is like loose change floating around wandering from party to party, man to man, friend to friend, in a big house in East Egg with no sense of purpose" (Thevshuhaslanded, 1). The novel's narr...

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... in the readers mind, hoping that his accounts will be taken for the truth. The problem is that in 1922 Nick Carraway moved to West Egg, across the way from East Egg. Between these two "eggs", West Egg is described as being the wealthier of the two, and therefore Nick lives in the relatively poorer of the two. At this point Nick has ... ...

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... represents Gatsby's desire for money, but it also represents Gatsby's undying hope. Finally, Fitzgerald uses the "green light" to symbolically portray Gatsby's undying hope. Gatsby's purpose of living on West Egg stems from the hope of one day encountering Daisy and the possibility of starting where the relationship had left off. It was the hope of impressing Daisy that led Gatsby ... Tom, Gatsby is still certain that she will choose him. Gatsby's undying hope is most evident after Daisy proclaims that she had loved Tom and then returns home to East Egg. Though Daisy proved Gatsby wrong...

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... play a significant active role; he is only a passive observer. When Nick arrives in New York, he soon visits his relatives, the Buchanans, who live in East Egg. Nick resides in the nearby (and less fashionable) West Egg, where Gatsby also lives. Like Nick, Tom Buchanan is from a prominent family from the mid-west. Tom is a former athlete at Yale, a vulgar and insecure ... ...

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... first learn about Gatsby in the first chapter. We briefly get a description of Gatsby. We learn that he lives in the same place as Nick. They both live in West Egg, which is the place for the "new rich". That is simply a term that means the people that live there have acquired their money recently, or it was not inherited. We ... describes Gatsby makes Gatsby stand out from all the other characters in the book. He is a step above the rest of the characters, even Tom Buchanan who is from East Egg where the "old rich" live. This technique is used so that it seems that Gatsby is really thi...

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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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... characteristics of modern-day women. She is, first of all, arrogant. This side of Miss Baker is shown when she first starts conversation with Nick, "'You live in the West Egg,' she remarked contemptuously." Jordan is obviously looking down upon Nick because he lives in the West ... ...

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... can resort to violence and drunkenness and get away with it. Doing this with Daisy may cause him to lose his moral standards of being an aristocrat from the East Egg. It is as if Myrtle is his freedom. Also, Myrtle turns out to be just a character the readers of The Great Gatsby picture she would be: she deceives George for ... ...

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... money makes Gatsby into an equal of Daisy's and allows him to finally pursue her" (Davis). Gatsby's attainment of millions of dollars, his purchase of a flashy mansion on West Egg and his lavish weekly parties are all merely a means to an end. In "The Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Gods and Fathers in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novels", Grindin agrees that ... ...

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... the color white emphasizes innocence and purity but in reality becomes deceiving and hides the truth of characters. White is first mentioned as Nick describes Daisy and Jordan at East Egg, appearing, "both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house" (8). Here, the ... ...

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... do not know what he is reaching for, it is later revealed to us as the light on the end of the dock near Daisy and Tom's house on East Egg. It is also showing how Gatsby has a habit of disappearing without people noticing. This point is reiterated at the end of the novel when Gatsby disappears from life without people ... ...

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... car she kills Myrtle in (Stark 61). The same daisy (yellow within/ white without) relates her to the books many "eggs- and implies that she is not a daisy but a rotten egg because she does not contain the seeds of life but of death (Stark 61). Daisy's middle name, Fay, can mean "Fairy- or "Faith- and also "Fey- which means fated to ... ...

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... vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness- (25-26). The first time that Fitzgerald uses the color green in the novel is when Nick first comes to West Egg. He tells about how he saw Gatsby in the shadow, but did not see him clearly. However, the one thing he did see was "a single green light- at the end ... ...

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... was not discontent with her life as Gatsby had thought that she was. Gatsby lost control of his life by letting his dream become his life. The house on West Egg and the many parties were all in hopes of achieving the dream. Gatsby behaves like a child and shows throughout the book that he is not capable of handling adult situations ... ...

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... was finally published in 1925, but not before going through at least half a dozen title changes, some of them being, Among Ash Heaps and Millionaires, On The Road To West Egg, and Trimalchio, before finally settling for The Great Gatsby (Mizener 191). The novels release was met by critical acclaim and considered his best work ever. Though with good reviews, the ... ...

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