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mickel
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Gatsby is a prime example of a West Egg resident. What is the difference between his mansion and an East Egg mansion?

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Posted by mickel on Sunday February 22, 2009 at 7:59 AM and tagged with east egg, mansion, the great gatsby, west egg.

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  1. cybil Teacher
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    Good question. The East Egg mansions were built long ago; they've been there for many years. About them is an air of refinement and upper-class respectability--even if people like the Buchanans, who "mess up other people's lives" and then walk away from the mess, inhabit them. Gatsby's mansion is a copy of a French chateau; outrageously overdone, to the East Eggers, it just screams "new money." Gatsby is an outsider who will never be accepted by those in East Egg because he doesn't have the credentials, the social background needed. No matter how fine his mansion is, it will be regarded as ostentatious.

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    Posted by cybil on Sunday February 22, 2009 at 8:54 AM