Read the excerpt from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
I lived at West Egg, the well, the less fashionable of the two, though this
the bizarre and not a little
is a most superficial tag to express
sinister contrast between them.. . . Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of
fashionable East Egg glittered
along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on
drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.
the evening I
Based on these descriptions, what inference can be made about the difference between West Egg
and East Egg?
The wealthy residents of East Egg hide their unattractive qualities beneath
light and dreamy appearances.
O Because the residents of West Egg have only recently earned their money, they are more sophisticated.
O West Egg is less fashionable because its
residents have much less money than the residents of East Egg.
The residents of West Egg and East Egg are noticeably different from one another, but they often socialize together.