Houses In The Great Gatsby Essay

There are many different characters and they all own different types of houses that represent who they are. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character, Nick, talks about the different types of houses and who lives in them. He does this to show how the different types of houses represent what the characters values are and how they act.
Nick lives in new york where there is an east and a west egg. Nick lives in the west egg next to Gatsby and they have a view of the east egg, where Daisy and her very wealthy husband, Tom, live. Nick first talks about his house and his neighbor’s, Jay Gatsby’s, house “My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound... The one on my right... was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn …show more content…
Daisy is Nick’s cousin. Tom knows Nick because they were in the same social club at yale. Tom is a very wealthy man. Nick and Gatsby can see Tom and Daisy’s house on the east egg by looking over the water dividing the two eggs. The house that Nick sees is “A cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens — finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run. The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon” (fitzgerald 6) Nick sees this house not knowing that it belonged to Daisy until after Gatsby tells him. Nick then proceeds to drive out to their house for dinner even though Nick referred to them as “two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all” (fitzgerald 6) so this made it interesting when Nick went to go see