We first learn about Nick Carraway and how he has come back from World War 1 and he wants to rent a house on the West Egg of New York city. Nick ends up renting his house right next to a wealthy man named Jay Gatsby, “I lived at West Egg, the...all for eighty dollars a month”(fitzgerald 14). Just like Jay Gatsby but on the other side of the lake there is the East Egg of New York, where Nick’s wealthy cousin Daisy Buchanan lives with her ex-football player Tom Buchanan. On the west egg, it is more wealthy than the east egg. Fitzgerald introduces to us a delayed exposition that Mr. Gatsby is in love with Daisy and wants to be with her. Throughout the story, you can see that Mr. Gatsby has a rough time trying to get together with Daisy with Daisy. Throughout this book Mr. Gatsby is motivated to be with daisy. Mr. Gatsby isn’t your typical old fella, Mr. Gatsby throws very large parties’ weekly. Also, Mr. Gatsby is probably involved in some shady activities like bootlegging.
One Conflict that Fitzgerald introduces to us is a “man vs. woman” conflict. Gatsby vs Daisy. Since Gatsby has known Daisy, he thought that she was beautiful and so Gatsby has tried his hardest to achieve the
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Both eggs are located in New York. The east egg of New York is the more wealthier of the two. On the West egg, that is where Mr. Gatsby and Nick live and on the East egg Tom and Daisy live there. Both of these to eggs are very important in the story because when during the story, the characters are either in the west egg of New york or the east egg. When the parties were being thrown, this was happening at the West egg where Mr. Gatsby’s mansion is. Also when daisy was invited to come to have lunch with Gatsby, that was on the West egg. Both of these eggs play a major part in the story because it hints to us that this place is a very wealthy place. So we can infer that this story is going to be about wealthy