The Symbolism of West Egg and East Egg in The Great Gatsby

F. In Scott Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby", working-class lovers and wealthy pirates pay the highest price outside the social structure. The social structure in the novel is not just about surrounding the poor, the working class, and the rich. Fitzgerald made a disparity between people who can succeed wealth and those who work for their wealth. The symbolic meaning of Western Egg and East Egg lies in the two fictitious communities of Long Island. These are used to emphasize the pressure of romantic relations among people of different classes in wealthy classes.

In the classic novel "Great Gatsby", Fitzgerald uses many specific symbolic meanings to increase the depth of the story. The story takes place in four different fields: East Egg, West Egg, New York City, and Ash Valley. Various houses in each region represent the various lives of people living there. Tom and Daisy Buchanan live in the East Egg's 'Merry red and white Georgian colonial manor house overlooking the bay'. (11) Their house symbolizes their steady wealth and a boring life. Don Egg is known as "old money" because it is a place where old generations lived in spacious, remote western homes. People living there have money for years, I know how to spend money wisely

The important symbol is where Jay Gatsby and George Wilson live and how it symbolizes their dreams. People living in East Egg are the ones who realized their dreams, wealth, and power, and the people who live in West Egg are still trying to achieve it. A wealthy person living in East Egg, Gatsby purchased a mansion and chose to live in West Egg. Gatsby's dream is not rich and powerful, but with Daisy, "Gatsby purchases a house and let Daisy go over the bay" (Fitzgerald 76)

With that profitable income, Gatsby bought a mansion of a fictional egg (brace or Kings point) of Long Island. West Egg lives in the other side of the bay, Old Egg (reference point of Sands Point), Daisy, Tom, and 3 year old daughter Pammy. Every weekend at his West Egg Building, Gatsby tries to attract Daisy as a party guest and holds various parties open to anyone. Through Daisy 's cousin Nick Calloway, Gatsby finally got the chance to see her again. Gatsby did not tell Daisy and Nick how they got the truth about wealth. At some meetings, Gatsby tried to reactivate the relationship with Daisy just as it was five years ago. He tried to attract her with her wealth and asked her to leave a ruthless and unfaithful husband.

Fitzgerald created a symbolic meaning of eggs by renaming Great Neck and Manhasset. West Egg is an opportunist of newly wealthy colonists, and it is believed that many people won wealth in one night, like Gatsby, and boasts this through high-class housing. West Egg shows its overall vitality through "spectrum homosexuality" of Fitzgerald which displays bright, colorful and vibrant lifestyle. However, the Egg is part of Long Island's fashion, wealthy descendants, money of the past generation and also life.