In their society, they feel that to be in a higher class they have to have money. In East Egg, the environment is a lot different than the environment in West Egg. In East Egg, the society is more wealthy and more elite than the society in West Egg. In West Egg, the society is not as wealthy but both areas still have a lot of money. Robert and Helen Roulaton, in their article The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald’s Opulent Synthesis, tell readers that “Tom tastes, moreover, are certainly closer to Fitzgerald’s than those of Gatsby, with his flashy pink suits, his flashy French villa, his vulgar car, which Tom calls a circus wagon” (Roulaton 5). This goes to show that to a reader is able to see the difference in the societies when they are merely
