Anyone reading F. Scott Fitzgerald knows that is about the 1920’s in America, also described as the ”Jazz Age” by Fitzgerald. In the 1920’s, it was all about wealth. There was two ways of achieving wealth: either you were born into it, meaning that you inherited money from your tich family, which was known as nouveau riche. The other way of achieving wealth in America during the 1920’s was to work for it. The goal for the people that lived in West Egg was to make the most amount of money with the least amount of effort. In the section that from page 11 to 24, we follow Nick Carraway from West Egg, which is where he lives in a bungalow between two mansions, to East Egg where he is going to visit his Cousin, Daisy, who lives with her husband …show more content…
It is also described as ”the less fashionable of the two” implying that old money, which is inheritance from rich families was thought of as better. We know that Nick lives where nouveau rich people live and he is involved with upper class activities although he ives in small bungalow because he is not rich enough to afford one of the big mansions that surround him. ”My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard — it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.” Knowing that his house is at the very tip of the egg and in between two very large mansions, his humble abode is ignored and unimportant compared to the surrounding houses. His bungalow seems like a malplaced house in a place where it does not belong, like Nick