These two eggs represent the West and the East eggs which are just outside of New York. The purple egg represents the West Egg, wealthy but at a lower class. The colorful egg with the ribbon represents the East Egg because although its wealthy also its at a higher class. Tom and Daisy live on the East Egg. Nick and Gatsby live on the West Egg. People that live here are not what they seem. It symbolizes that people on the outside may look one way, but be a different person on the inside.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had" (1).
Nick was taught not to judge people because he had more advantages. His family was wealthy and he received a good education and went to Yale University.
"Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sand" (9).
East of New York are the West and East eggs. Nick and Gatsby are citizens of the west egg, the less fashionable of the two and more superficial.
"Well, its a fine book and everybody ought to read it" (17).
Tom was talking about the book, "The Rise of the Coloured Empires" and talks about how the white race which he explains is the dominant race and should watch out for the other races and beat them down. This shows that Tom is very racist.
"I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of the dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness" (26).
This quote is important because the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses a lot of symbolism in The Great Gatsby. He uses colors to symbolize different feelings and people. In this quote, the color green is significant. It could symbolize many things such as wealth, greed, and envy.
Nick was taught not to judge people because he had more advantages. His family was wealthy and he received a good education and went to Yale University.
"Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sand" (9).
East of New York are the West and East eggs. Nick and Gatsby are citizens of the west egg, the less fashionable of the two and more superficial.
"Well, its a fine book and everybody ought to read it" (17).
Tom was talking about the book, "The Rise of the Coloured Empires" and talks about how the white race which he explains is the dominant race and should watch out for the other races and beat them down. This shows that Tom is very racist.
"I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of the dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness" (26).
This quote is important because the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses a lot of symbolism in The Great Gatsby. He uses colors to symbolize different feelings and people. In this quote, the color green is significant. It could symbolize many things such as wealth, greed, and envy.
Symbolism: West and East Eggs (Setting)
There is a lot of symbolism in chapter one of The Great Gatsby. For example, they call the place they live just outside of New York the West and East Eggs. This is significant because the 'eggs' are meant to symbolize the people living in them. On the outside of eggs(the food product) is the shell. The shell is a hard white layer. Inside of the hard shell is the yoke. The yoke is yellow and liquid. This symbolizes that people on the outside may look and act like they are something different then they actually are and feel on the inside. The people find it hard to express themselves and how they truely feel because they are scared of what other people may think of them and how they will react. Therefore the people that live in the West and East Eggs are not what they seem and are like eggs.
There is a lot of symbolism in chapter one of The Great Gatsby. For example, they call the place they live just outside of New York the West and East Eggs. This is significant because the 'eggs' are meant to symbolize the people living in them. On the outside of eggs(the food product) is the shell. The shell is a hard white layer. Inside of the hard shell is the yoke. The yoke is yellow and liquid. This symbolizes that people on the outside may look and act like they are something different then they actually are and feel on the inside. The people find it hard to express themselves and how they truely feel because they are scared of what other people may think of them and how they will react. Therefore the people that live in the West and East Eggs are not what they seem and are like eggs.
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