golden girl, Daisy Faye Buchanan. Kumamoto explains that in the Roman diet eggs and fowls were rare dishes, and Fitzgerald’s intertextual ambition was to heighten the irreconcilable social gap between East and West Egg. Gatsby’s parties beckoned like the green light to guests with rare foods, his own bootlegged liquor, music and dances where business connections were made between politicians, businessmen, and celebrities; all from various social classes. Fitzgerald uses eggs to symbolize the social classes, and later when Gatsby stops the parties once he has Daisy, Nick realizes that “Gatsby’s career as Trimalchio was over” (113). Fitzgerald alludes to the egg and fowl and the “the idiomatic meanings of ‘chicken’” (Kumamoto) when he describes Tom and Daisy “sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken between them and two bottles of ale…conspiring together” (144-45). When Daisy accidently kills Myrtle Wilson she loses her nerve and will not face up to her crime. Instead, she lets Gatsby take the blame. Tom “chicken’s out” too when he tells George Wilson that Gatsby owned the death car. …show more content…
The “pair of enormous eggs” and fowls signals not only social classes between West Egg and East Egg, but the idiom of the Buchanan’s “chickening out” of telling the truth in the end, and allowing Gatsby to take the blame for the killing of Myrtle