Monday, May 10, 2010

East Egg vs West Egg

East Egg: East egg is like laguna hills, where most young adults revieve inheritance from there grandparents or parents. They never have to work hard for their money because their mothers and fathers were rich and spoiled their kids. When kids are raised not knowing the importance of the value of the dollar, it makes them careless on how they spend it and save it. With money people like to buy their way through things instead of working hard and handling the responsibility that most people have to endure. Like east egg, Many of the characters dont know the true value of the dollar and how to work for it because everything was just given to them through out their life.



West Egg: West egg is more in resemblance to hollywood. Most stars have worked their way to the top and have experienced the hardships to get to where they are at. Even though at times they probley just wanted to give up, or wished it was just handed to them on a sliver platter they worked hard to become what they are. Gatsby worked hard to move into West Egg, and what seperates him from the East Eggers is that he has morals on how to save his money and spend it wisely. West Eggers were all hard workers because they were the newly rich. most looked to East Egg as a leader because they wanted to fit in.






In my opinion i would rather live in West egg, because i would rather save my money and spend it when i needed to spend it. Being materialistic to me is like throwing money away, and many of the east eggers are materialistic. i would rather buy a shirt from a thrift store then from a name brand store. its not like people look at the price of the shirt and judge whether its cool or not. Most stores sell the same T-shirt designs but with a little difference to obey trademark policies. nobody would know the diffrence its not like your telling everyone where u bought it from. and if you wanted to sound cool maybe tell them its a secret shop you found out about








SOURCES:


Fitzgerald Scott F. "The Great Gatsby" New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1925 chapters 1-3

1 comment:

  1. Good start, but you have several typos/misspelled words. You need to allow time to proofread your post before you publish it. Good visuals. 60/75

    Ms. Donahue

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