Eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs...

The two islands of fictional New York, the east and west eggs, are polarized in cultures.
East egg, where Tom originates, is full of stuffed-shirts who simply inherit the money of their ancestors over several generations. This money as somewhat of a code of honor, and many people from east egg keep themselves in good posture, don't act out, and do their very best to avoid situations that would stir gossipers. However, this also makes them really snooty, and very bland.
However, the people of west egg are all about the life of glamor and having fun. The money they have is recently obtained, and as the old saying goes, "Easy come, easy go." People like Gatsby and Jordan throw away their money willy-nilly without a second thought to have people run amok and make utter fools of themselves.

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?