Monday, September 27, 2010
East Egg VS. West Egg
The difference between East Egg and West Egg is similar to the East and West of America. The people from the East seem to be more uptight and stricter than those of the West. In my opinion, the most significant from this chapter was the view on women. Tom, a person of the East, frowned upon "Daisy's running around alone" (p.103). On the opposite side, people of the East show up to parties they aren't invited to, and drink like there is no tomorrow. "'When she's had five or six cocktails she always starts screaming like that.'" (p.106). Another example of the West being looser than the East is Gatsby: marriage is a thing to be respected. Tom and Daisy don't get a divorce even though Daisy knows about the affair, and Tom wants to be with Myrtle, but marriage is too sacred to end it: a typical, Eastern, strict belief. But from a Western, looser, Gatsby perspective, he is planning to end the marriage between Daisy and Tom; a marriage isn't as important to him as it is to Easterners. A question I pose is, where does Daisy fit into the East VS. West? She doesn't seem opposed to being with Gatsby, but she hasn't divorced Tom, so where does that leave her?
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Ok lets give this a try. This will be typed from my ipod and uploded from my ipod. Anyways, refering to the difference between east egg and west egg. I dissagree on the statment about Gatsby and the rest of west egg not caring about marrige. Would gatsby destroy some one elses marrige just so he could get married to some one and honestly not care about marrige? I think you pose a valid point in ssying west egg people dont care about things as much as east eggers because when the guys crash the car they walk off with out much fuss about the car they just totalled. And now i pose you this question: what egg do you think you would fit into and why?
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