Question

I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. . . . Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans. Based on these descriptions, what inference can be made about the difference between West Egg and East Egg?

Answer 1

Answer: East egg is old money and west egg is new money

Explanation:East Egg and West Eggs symbolizes old money and new money. West egg is less fashionable compared to East Egg. It represents that people that are born rich live in East Egg because it is old money like Tom and Daisy while the people that are newly rich also means that they weren’t born rich and then make their claim fortune like Gatsby.

Answer 2

Answer:

A. The wealthy residents of East Egg hide their unattractive qualities beneath light and dreamy appearances.

Explanation:

Edge 2021