Tuesday, May 25, 2010

East Egg vs. West Egg






East Egg and West Egg are identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay... they are not perfect ovals though. East Egg is the fashionable group of social elite or commonly known as the "old money" people. This only means that they have had money mostly their whole life. Tom and Daisy represent the East Egg because they have both lived luxuriously their entire lives. Most of the people in East Egg are shallow and don't have many values. They are also careless and are completely concerned with themselves. The social elite of East Egg are somewhat inhumane because of how careless they are about what they do. They were so spoiled their whole lives their judgment on things are twisted compared to most people. Al thought these are bad people they are envied and copied by the West Eggers. Most people in the East Egg area don't like the fact the West eggers are copy cats and they dint really play along with this.
The West eggers are the people that are newly rich also called the "new money" people. The new money people worked hard to earn their money in a short amount of time. Their wealth is based off of materialistic items. Gatsby, just like all the West eggers lacks the traditions of the East eggers. He is considered new money because he made his money recently ( and many people believe he didn't make it in a legal way). This is mostly why Gatsby is very wealthy but not a snob about it. Gatsby actually has retained a lot of his hospitality because he earned his money and wasn't born with it.
Overall both eggs are very similar in the fact that the residents love money, but the difference is how they obtained their money and how its shaped them as a person.

2 comments:

  1. Some spelling errors and you must cite your sources. 55/75

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  2. One word was spelled incorrectly and most of it was a bit redundant. But good try better luck next time.

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