Setting Of West Egg In The Great Gatsby

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Cedrica Sims

In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are three settings. The impact of the setting of West Egg in The Great Gatsby is to create a setting where it seems the characters have all worked hard for their money and is living a life that is too good to be true. West Egg is said to be “less fashionable” of the two eggs. It consists of all the new wealthy people. The setting behind West Egg different with the background of the people that live there. They weren’t born into wealth they each worked for their money. Nick’s house is not as fancy as his neighbors. In chapter one Nick states, “My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve

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