Chapter 1

The picture above is an example of the mansions that were located on the wets and east egg during the 1920's. Even though the west egg has mansions, they are not as big and as extravagant as the ones on the east egg; where his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom. The mansions also show that people are very materialistic. They have all of this expensive stuff but at the same time they are always bored and they seem as though they have nothing to do. Also, thing this shows is that they don't rely on other people to keep them occupied rather than relying on themselves.

Chapter 1 introduces the setting of the "West" and "East" egg. The importance of this chapter is the setting of the eggs. The eggs also symbolize the characters as well. For example all of the characters have a hard outter shell and are soft on the inside. All of the characters are very fake and show no remorse for eachother. For example, Tom: he only cares about the things that he has he doesn't care about what anyone has to say or what they have. Daisy ends up killing her husband's mistress and she too shows no remorse for her actions but she does this later on in the book. Also, we find out that the only reason why Daisy wouldn't stay with Gatsby because he wasnt rich enough for her, so instead she stays wiht a man who has an affair and beats his mistress. Another example of how the eggs symbolize characters is Myrtle. This is because she brings Tom to her own home and introduces Tom to her husband. Which in fact Tom does the same thing by bringing Nick along with him to meet his mistress even though he knows that Nick and Daisy are second cousins. The eggs none the less are very significant and symbolize many things throught Fitzgerald's book.

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one" he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had that advantages that you've had" (pg.1).

This is important beacuse its saying that you shouldn't judge people beacuse you don;t know how their life has been. Also, just beacuae you have had a better education and more money doesn't mean that you have the right to judge them based on their education and how much money they have.

"I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them" (pg.9). This explains even though the west egg had money it didn't have as much money as the "East Egg" had. They looked the same but they were economicically different due to the money that is envolved on the eggs.

"Turning me around by one arm..." (pg.7). This is important to the chapter because this shows that Tom only cares about his things and he has to physically move people to show them arond. He's a very aggressive man and also an ostentatious guy as well.

"I'm p-paralyzed with happiness" (pg 8). This is also, significant to the chapter because the characters int eh book are very sarcastic. They also, exaggerate alot! The characters in the novel don't really care about what the other has to say they only seem to care about themselves.