... that the American Dream is upside down and society very corrupt for encouraging this type of lifestyle. Jay Gatsby, a young and reserved upstart, lives on the "West Egg" of Long Island. He is not a beneficiary of family wealth and has therefore made his fortune independently. When he was growing up a common man ... this social status that he becomes completely obsessed with it and refuses the return to normalcy. Nick ponders: The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-y...

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... . We 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 ... , who now called himself Jay Gatsby, that he took him on as his steward, mate, and later as skipper and personal secretary. He sails with Cody to the West Indies and the Barbary Coast. He learns to avoid alcohol and learns to follow his dreams and devote his lif...

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... to truly recognize Gatsby's greatness. Jay Gatsby: He is the title character and the protagonist of the novel, Gatsby is an extremely wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is well-known for the generous parties he throws every Saturday night, but none knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune ... . Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom's marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, N...

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... separated only by a courtesy of bay, just out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great barnyard of Long Island Sound" (Fitzgerald 9). By writing from Nick's point of view, Fitzgerald is able to make Gatsby more realistic than he could have by presenting Gatsby through the ... she is working hard to earn 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...

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... Zelda from Jozan" (Meyers, 126). Fitzgerald had now managed to weave Ginevra King's beauty as well as Zelda's corruption into his deceiving portrait of Daisy Buchanan. Great Neck, along the coast of 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 ... ." 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 ...

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... of the universe". Nick's dream is to get away from the small town Midwest and make lots of money by going East and learning the bond business. Nick moves to West Egg, Long Island, home of the newly rich and their fast paced lifestyle. Nick's dream goes according to plan until he befriends his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Despite Gatsby's mysterious background ... from the war he makes it his goal to win back Daisy. Some examples of how Gatsby goes about accomplishing this goal include buying an impressive mansion in West Egg, directly across the sound from Daisy's house, and throwing lavish pa...

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... 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 ... and 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. .....

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... two of: theme, structure, setting, symbolism or any other appropriate feature. Set in 1920's America - pre stock market crash - in the rich suburbs of New York known as East and West Egg, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the positive and negative aspects of dreams. By analysing Fitzgerald's characterisation, setting and actions in the novel and determining how effectively applied ... extravagance for a man who was once content, and to an extent still is, with the simplest of possessions. All is explained however when Fitzgerald informs the reader that across the sound ...

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... mysterious man. Nobody knows how he became rich, nor do they know the motives behind his parties. Gatsby's modus operandi is unknown to the West Egg society, making him a unique spectacle for all to behold. Tom Buchanan is Gatsby's main enemy, his evil twin' if you will. ... Tom is a much more outwardly violent and aggressive man than Gatsby, making him much like a vision of Gatsby's evil alter ego. East and west are expansively used in this novel to contrast certain types of people and their mannerisms. Fitzgerald seems to be implying that a person's behavioral characteristics ... desc...

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... Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, 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 ... lives an extravagant life but he is an unhappy person betrayed by the love of his life, Daisy. After earned all money Daisy wanted him to have, he moved to West Egg. He bought a big castle so Daisy would come back to him. He throws the bigge...

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... narrator, Nick Carraway, is a man from Minnesota who ventures to New York in the summer of 1922 to become a bondsman. He rents a house in West Egg, a district of Long Island where the unfashionable wealth resides. Nick is different from his neighbors since he has social connections in East Egg, which is ... revolver to find whoever murdered his wife. George heads to Tom's house first, where George learns of Jay Gatsby. George then heads straight to West Egg then kills Gatsby while Gatsby was in the swimming pool. Unable to live with the guilt of murder, George commits suicide and is deem...

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... was a man of his time, a man with good manners and good judgment. Gatsby's lifestyle and his possessions made the East Egg seem superior than those who were living in the West Egg. It made life in the West seem more drab and tedious since parties at the Gatsby mansion was more ordinary than it would have in the ... . This makes the parties at the Gatsby mansion even more infamous as all parts of New York had heard about this grand party. The comparison between the East and West are so distinguishable that the lower classes compared to the upper classes seem poor, unrealistic, and disgust...

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... 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 man preoccupied with the decline of society and of class boundaries. It is ... even tells Gatsby that she loves him when Tom can hear. The group goes off to New York, stopping by Wilson's garage, where they learn that Wilson will soon move west with his wifehe recently realized something about his wife an...

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... New York, in the early 1920s. One might notice that the financial situation with the East and West Eggs bears an uncanny resemblance to the situation with the East and West Sides in the city. The narrator himself introduces the reader to this idea: "I lived at West Egg, the -- well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to ... between them" (9). In the city families who have been wealthy for several generations occupy the sophisticated East Side; in order to buy an apartment there one must provide good recommendations. West Side is less sophisticated and...

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... is a flawed character, Nick sees that Gatsby has a profound commitment to his ideals, a trait that is missing from the likes of the west-eggers, Daisy and Tom. Gatsby had to make himself, while Daisy and Tom are reckless and careless and simply inherited their social status. Fitzgerald emphasizes ... more specifically, his use of Nick as the narrator of the majority of the story. Fitzgerald chose Nick, a young man who comes from the west, to enhance the differences amongst the characters. Nick proclaims in the beginning of the novel that he is "inclined to reserve all judgments- because ...

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... of the roaring 20's in his novel The Great Gatsby. It begins with Nick Carraway moving into an area on Long Island called West Egg. There is a West Egg and an East Egg. The difference of the two is West Egg is mostly people of "new- money, with very little social standing and East Egg is wealthy, upper-class people of high social ... rank. Jay Gatsby is Nick's mysterious neighbor in West Egg. Nick has connections with people in East Egg; his cousin Daisy Buchanan, her husband Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker, a good friend of Daisy. The group becomes friends and throughout ... ...

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... others and 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 ... , however, 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...

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... narrator discovers that Gatsby was born Jay Gatz in North Dakota. Gatsby also tell Carraway about his schooling. Gatsby says, "I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle - west - all dea! d now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition" (Fitzgerald 69). Gatsby ... that Gatsby earned his fortune through illegal criminal activity such as stealing. Jay Gatz is a misfit in this society. Gatz is an extremely wealthy man living in a large residence in West Egg, New York. Gatz tries to f...

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... and 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 ... , and 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 v...

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... , so there must be some differences. Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan display their differences through their wealth, their temper and their social aspects. Tom, from East Egg, and Gatsby, from West Egg, display a significant difference in how they earn their money. Mr.Buchanan was born into his old money riches, whereas Gatsby comes from nothing, working his way to the top ... benefits she has by being married to him. When Daisy and Tom attend one of Gatsby's parties together, she has a very unpleasant time. She comes to the realization that the West Egg lifestyle is tedious and vulgar. It i...

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... been 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 across the bay from Daisy's home. There is a green light at the end of Daisy's dock that is visible at night from the windows and ... a green light at the end of a dock. The most obvious symbol in The Great Gatsby is a waste land called the Valley of Ashes, a dumping ground that lies between East and West Egg and New York City. Symbolically "the green breast of the new world" (F...

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... originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. In the 1920s depicted in the novel, however, easy money and relaxed social values corrupted this dream, especially on the East Coast. Gatsby's dream of loving Daisy is ruined by the difference in their individual social statuses, and forces him to take to crime in order to make enough money to impress ... ...

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... the 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 ... ...

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... relationship 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 ... ...

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... in adoration. As he steps forward, as he raises his hand, as he purses his lips, he interprets his reflection's mirror imagery as requitment of the desire. This mythology may sound absurd when relating it to Jay Gatsby and King Lear - however, both these figures are guilty of misreading the actions of those around him; with Gatsby having the audacity to ... ...

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