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        <title><![CDATA[East Egg and West Egg are both enormously wealthy suburbs of New York...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[East Egg and West Egg are both enormously wealthy suburbs of New York City, located on Long Island where they face the ocean. East Egg is the home of those people who enjoy the highest social prestige, as well as their money. Their fortunes have been inherited and their roots run deep in American society. Theirs is "old money." The East Eggers place great value on tradition, family background, social convention, and manners, and they look with...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Great Gatsby, what is the difference betwen East Egg and West Egg?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Great Gatsby, what is the difference betwen East Egg and West Egg?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the opening chapter of the book, Nick, the narrator, describes where...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the opening chapter of the book, Nick, the narrator, describes where he lives on Long Island, and specifically, West Egg.  He calls it "less fashionable" than East Egg and in doing so is using understatement since East Egg is very glamorous and populated by some very rich people.  West Egg, too, has its very rich people (Gatsby, for example).  Then when Nick gets to the Buchanan's house, Tom comments that he has "...a nice place here"...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How was understatement used in The Great Gatsby?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How was understatement used in The Great Gatsby?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:08:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This question has been previoulsy asked and answered. Please see the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This question has been previoulsy asked and answered. Please see the links below for more information, or click here to see all previously asked theme questions.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:09:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[East Egg and West Eggappear as identically-contoured formations of land,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[East Egg and West Eggappear as identically-contoured formations of land, “enormous eggs,” separated only by “a courtesy bay.” However, the eggs are dissimilar in “every particular except shape and size.” On West Egg, “the less fashionable of the two,” the houses are built with no regard to codes or restrictions, as Nick's house is a bungalow sandwiched between two mansions. By contrast, the houses on fashionable East Egg...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:15:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[East Egg is the location where the rich people who have family money and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[East Egg is the location where the rich people who have family money and prestige, what would be called old money, meaning that the person or persons inherited the money from a previous generation live, therefore, the family has been wealthy for a long time.  For example Daisy and Tom Buchanan live in East Egg because Tom's family is old money.  The dwellers in East Egg would be considered Easterners, cold, indifferent and not to be...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:27:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is West Egg different from East Egg?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is West Egg different from East Egg?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:57:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm writing an essay about the themes in "The Great Gatsby" and I'm...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm writing an essay about the themes in "The Great Gatsby" and I'm stuck. I need an outline explaining all the themes in the story.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:21:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I just wanted to clear up a point from someone else's answer to this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I just wanted to clear up a point from someone else's answer to this question.  The response I saw states that East Egg and West Egg are now known as Great Neck.  This is partially accurate.  I grew up in Great Neck, which is, in fact, the area described in The Great Gatsby as "West Egg".  Additionally, a street called Gatsby Lane does in fact exist and is set in the location where the mansion is described.  However, East Egg is not Great...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:35:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gatsby would never go into hiding at this point in the novel, he has...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gatsby would never go into hiding at this point in the novel, he has waited a long five years to get this close to Daisy once again.  He has succeeded in his plan to be with Daisy, except everything goes very, very wrong in the hotel when Gatsby and Daisy confront Tom, her husband, with their love for each other.
Daisy is a fragile woman emotionally, Tom is an abusive husband and has emotionally abused Daisy with his open affairs and arrogant...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:43:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The great irony of your question is that Gatsby's entire existence is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The great irony of your question is that Gatsby's entire existence is his illusion of his own reality. He truely believed that he could recreate his relationship with Daisy, and at that moment of recreation they could remain untouched by the progression of time. The reason why Gatsby does not go into hiding after Myrtle's death, or to add to your question report it to the authorities is because in order for his illusion or dream to remain part...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:46:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Great Gatsby," Jay Gatsby is the protagonist.  At the end of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Great Gatsby," Jay Gatsby is the protagonist.  At the end of the story he and Daisy drive back from the city together.  Daisy is driving the car when Myrtle is killed.  Gatsby stands outside her house because he is worried about her. 
The just before daylight Nick goes to the house to check on Jay and sees him dejected and tired.  Nick says:

"You ought to go away,' I said. 'It's pretty certain they'll trace your car.'" 


"Go...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:29:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Great Gatsby", why doesn't Gatsby go into hiding after Myrtle's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Great Gatsby", why doesn't Gatsby go into hiding after Myrtle's death?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:04:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Chapter one of “The Great Gatsby”, Tom makes a comment about...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Chapter one of “The Great Gatsby”, Tom makes a comment about “civilization going to pieces” during a dinner party with himself, Daisy, Jordan, and Nick.  The conversation begins after Daisy explains to her company that Tom hurt her finger; she then goes on to call him “hulking”.  After this, Nick responds, seemingly joking around, by telling Daisy that she makes him feel “uncivilized.”  Then Tom says, “Civilization's...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Tom Buchanan explain, "civilization going to pieces"? What does...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Tom Buchanan explain, "civilization going to pieces"? What does this imply about his character?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:56:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gatsby met Daisy during his enlistment.  He was stationed at Camp...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gatsby met Daisy during his enlistment.  He was stationed at Camp Taylor and Daisy was very popular with the young soldiers.  They dated a while but he was sent off to war and Daisy didn't wait for a poor soldier, she married a rich Tom.  After Gatsby got out of the Army he vowed to earn a lot of money so that he could win Daisy.  He realized that he would never have a chance to win her love and her commitment without money.  He chased...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:27:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[These are two separate questions, so I'll only answer the first. Gatsby...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[These are two separate questions, so I'll only answer the first. Gatsby knew Daisy from Louisville-he was stationed there for a brief period. Daisy was quite popular with the soldiers at Camp Taylor, which is how she met Gatsby. For him, Daisy represented the American Dream, everything for which he was striving. After a brief love affair, he planned to marry her, but his orders came to ship out. She was prevented from meeting him to say...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How did Gatsby know Daisy?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How did Gatsby know Daisy?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:17:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Your question gets to the heart of the novel and the development of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Your question gets to the heart of the novel and the development of Fitzgerald's theme. The answer lies in the structure of the novel and its use of flashback. When the novel begins, Nick has returned from living in the East. He speaks to us as a man who has been through a profound experience and is still dealing with it.
He begins by telling us of his family background and how he grew up. He explains that as a result of his father's...]]></description>
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