Topic > Two Eggs in a Nest: The Great Gatsby - 566

"Across Courtesy Bay the white buildings of elegant East Egg glittered along the water..." (10). The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of what happened between Daisy, Tom, Gatsby and many others in the summer of 1922. Nick Carraway gives readers in-depth insight into what is really happening between the characters and sees what it happens others can't see. East Egg and West Egg are separated only by a small bay, but they are actually worlds apart. West Egg is where this story begins. "My house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore and it had been neglected, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the comforting proximity of millionaires, all for eighty dollars a month. (10). His house is squeezed between too colossal mansions, one of which is Jay Gatsby's Egg whether made up of “new money” or, as the book and film suggest, bootleggers, the people of West Egg love to party and have fun, they are something of a novelty...