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How is West Egg different from East Egg?

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Posted by troublesis12 on June 21, 2009 at 4:57 AM and tagged with contrast, east egg, west egg

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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...

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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...

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Posted by theten on June 21, 2009 at 10:15 AM

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