Behind the American Dream. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald contrasts the two fictional peninsulas known as West Egg and East Egg. Both parts symbolize wealth, class, and social standing

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In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald contrasts the two fictional peninsulas known as West Egg and East Egg.  Both parts symbolize wealth, class, and social standing which the people of both routes dedicate their lives to become high-end and experience the corruption of the American Dream.  The difference between Eastern and Western values as represented are strongly announced.  "East Egg represents an inherited position, the "old aristocracy" while West Egg represents the "self-made rich", the newcomers of the social class." The people of both Eggs focus between the powerful and the powerless, which causes conflict and separation between the two. 

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Both of the eggs love their money but have solid differences, which conclude in conflicts to strive for power and pleasure.  East Egg resembles a high-class group of social elites who are careless and shallow by letting their riches and materialistic things characterize who they are.  They are spoiled to an extent where they present themselves

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as selfish and complex.  The "East Eggers" are so consumed to their title, but are extremely successful. Tom and Daisy Buchanan, who live in East Egg, are entitled to their social group and felt they were too sophisticated to handle future ...

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