... a better and larger life who doesn't get caught up in the shallow, materialistic notions of most people doing the same thing. For instance, Nick ends up renting a house in West Egg that is "a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month" and is " squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season." (pp. 8-9). Nick's next door neighbor is ... Jay Gatsby. Nick's "second cousin once removed" was Daisy Buchanan who lived with her husband Tom in East Egg, just "[a]cross the courtesy bay" from West Egg (p. 10). After getting settled, Nick visits the Bu...

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... ; his dream. Gatsby's dream is connected with images of light, a pure and positive entity, which is ethereal, and untouchable. After Nick and Gatsby had lunch, Nick arrives home in East Egg to discover Gatsby's house, which was intensely lit up; " My house was on fire the peninsula was blazing with light, which fell unreal upon the shrubbery." The light symbolises a beacon ... ...

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... 3). Wilson had something to go off of, the color of Gatsby's fantastically unique car, and this allowed him to track down Gatsby. "By half past two he was in West Egg where he asked someone the way to Gatsby' house. So by that time he knew Gatsby's name- (Fitzgerald 168). In the end Wilson is only an angel of God, sent ... ...

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