Great_Gasby

Great Gasby In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the settings of East and West eggs, The Valley of Ashes, and New York City to assist the actions of the main characters. The East Egg is more of the upscale region of the setting. People that live there have all the money, drive fancy cars and dress in expensive clothing. It symbolizes comfort, which means that it is always pleasant there. The East Egg also symbolizes prosperity. The people there, like Jay Gatsby, are successful. Daisy Buchanan is one of these people. She goes to Gatsby parties and wants to fit in with society. She appears to be a “gold digger.” She uses men just for their money. As Nick is driving over to the Buchanan’s to have dinner he describes his drive “Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water….” (10) The West Egg is home to the “new rich,” the people who having made their fortunes recently, have neither the social connections nor the improvement to move among the East Egg set. West Egg is characterized by generous displays of egg, ashes, valley, west, new, east, york, people, city, characters, tom, setting, rich, gatsby, daisy, symbolizes, scott, poor, nick, money, life, he’s, having, flashy, fitzgerald, fashionable, eggs, drive, describes, buchanan, between, actions