East Egg & West Egg Explained http://www.subodhbhattarai.blogspot.com In The Great Gatsby , a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald which is set in Long Island, NY during the Roaring Twenties, specifically summer of 1922; there are two cities that are separated by the Valley of Ashes . These two cities are known as East Egg and West Egg , and there are two different classes of wealth in these cities. They are new wealth against old wealth . The two cities represent the vastly different lifestyles of Daisy and Jay, and sets up the tragic events of the story. The East Egg is where all the ‘Old Money’ families live. These are old established and extremely wealthy families. Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom are from old money and live in East Egg. The people in East Egg are known for being well educated usually at Ivy League (A league of universities and colleges in the North-Eastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige
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