"I lived at West Egg- the- well, less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them." said by Nick, -MA
In the story, west and east egg are in a comparison of wealth. who has the most money, but most of all, how do they use it. Gatsby, being apart of the new money side (east egg), through parties, and showed off his riches to other wealthy people. MH
-LR
"They are not perfect ovals-like egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end- but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead." Nick -LR
"I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West-all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is family tradition" KT
Thse places are located on the superior part of long island new York. Though they don't really exist, they are not called "eggs" because of round shape, rather because they look like a crushed chattered egg. ^MH <MH
Jay Gatsby lived in West Egg next to Nick, where he through marvelous parties. The Buchanan's lived across the bay in the more fashionable East Egg. -MA
"Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans."-Nick KT
"She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village- appalled by it's raw vigo that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand"(Talking about Daisy) People like her were too confident about their lifestyle in East Egg, because it was full of more wealth and style to them. (Talking about Daisy, a women from East Egg)-MA
Authors: Maggie Armstrong Lexi Russell Kwatalyna Talamantes