In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, uses juxtaposition in many ways. One way Fitzgerald shows this contrast, in the first three chapters, is in the setting. Although West and East Egg are illustrated alike physically, it is established early on that the way of life is very different. ". . . —but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size" (pg. 5). As the narrator, Nick uses this line affectively because he is creative in the way he expresses that the Eggs look similar, but to the people who live there, their opinions and lifestyles vary widely. Wealth and fashion are much more apparent in the East rather than the West. In this time period, people were very separated based on their opinions, social statuses, and wealth. …show more content…
To describe the valley of ashes, I would say the area is made up of a more poor society and used as a space for industrial related or harder labor jobs. ". . . —a fantastic farm we're ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air" (pg. 23). Nick's description here really allowed me to picture the contrasts between life at West Egg and the valley of the ashes. Using this section of the book, I, as a reader, can see that after leaving the city limits where the rich have established themselves in a glamorous fashion, there is a whole other version of society where people must work for a