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Setting

The setting of F. Scott Fitzgerald'southward The Great Gatsby contrasts the morals of the E Coast with the American Mid-West. East and West Egg stand for differences in grade and heritage.

East Egg v West Egg

Based on real settlements called East and West Hampton, these are 2 very wealthy residential areas on Long Island, separated by a bay.

West Egg

Gatsby's house is in Due west Egg, which Nick, aware he is oversimplifying, describes as 'the less fashionable' of the two, although he adds that the differences betwixt the areas are 'bizarre and not a little sinister'.

Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France

Although Gatsby's firm is huge and lavish, it is tasteless, showing his lack of real composure. Nick sneers at it for being unattractive and looking like a copy of a Normandy Hôtel de Ville . This suggests its design is inappropriately grandiose for a home house. It is significant that it is an imitation, equally Gatsby himself is an imitation. The fact information technology is obviously new is a negative feature because it ways it has a lack of heritage, something Tom mocks Gatsby for when he calls him "Mr Nobody from Nowhere".

Fitzgerald's use of personification in the phrase "a thin beard of raw ivy" is effective in once more enervating comparing with its occupant. The image is comic, but likewise suggests youth and vulnerability, as well as a wish for concealment – just every bit Gatsby is concealing his real self.

Nick's business firm, which he mocks as a "small eyesore" , is also in Due west Egg. All the same, Nick has admitted his family are 'well-to-do' and his poverty is only causeless. When he describes his little house every bit "squeezed betwixt two huge places" , this looks frontwards to Nick existence caught in the emotional crossfire between Gatsby and the Buchanans.

East Egg

Daisy and Tom live in Due east Egg, which is much more exclusive and where the old money set live. The phrase "indiscernible barbed wire" used in chapter eight sums up the social barrier between the 2 'Eggs' which even money tin can't penetrate. While East Egg is also expensive and luxurious, information technology is cute:

the white palaces of fashionable E Egg glittered along the water...

The word 'palaces' evokes connotations of royalty, and although they have no titles, the Buchanans are the American equivalent of aristocrats. 'Glittered' perhaps suggests hardness and impenetrability also as beauty. The apply of plurals suggests that with the Buchanans, money is no object: following on from a huge lawn are "sundials and brick walks and burning gardens" . Nick is enchanted by his first view of their house: "the front was cleaved past a line of French windows, glowing at present with reflected gold."

The Buchanans' house is the image of skillful taste: 'Georgian colonial' suggests an illustrious ancestral background, although we learn later on Tom actually bought the house from "an oil man". Daisy's cartoon room seems as delicate and charming as Daisy herself on first appearance: "a bright rosy-coloured space, fragilely bound into the house" …with a "frosted wedding-block" of a ceiling and a '"wine-coloured" carpeting.

However, Nick's description includes discordant notes : the cakewalk bravado through the open windows causes the curtains to "whip and snap" and a picture to "groan" . These sharp, negative monosyllables hint at the tensions in the household. Virtually significantly, Daisy's house has a individual dock on the water with a "green light". It is this which comes to symbolise Gatsby's dream.