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 consequences. "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together." (Fitzgerald, 79). They used their wealth to run away from killing Myrtle in the novel, without confessing or an apology.
West Eggers are individuals who have become rich within their own lifetime rather than inheriting their money. They are known as the newcomers and the life of the party. Gatsby’s extraordinary events are mind-blowing and even attract the East Eggers. "The bar is full of swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names." (Fitzgerald 40). West Eggers are full of life and celebrate their "new money". They are also known to be vulgar and extremely flashy. Nick confesses his thoughts about the West. "I lived at West Egg, the-well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is the most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them." (Fitzgerald 5).
The main characters are symbols of the American Dream known as "discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness." Fitzgerald describes the corruption of the dream through his view of the characters lives and conflicts with each other. Both sides represented the characteristics of the West and East, to explain that the American Dream
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was killed. The West and East went against the "all men were created equal" rule, which causes both to separate, to prove that the true colors of both peninsulas were vivid and different.
Within both of their ideals and values, it has been concluded that society will never change. The two were very superficial and their differences shaped their lives by their dependence on money. Their greed has consumed both of them, once and for all.