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The East Egg depicts the established aristocratic families with their inherited money while the West Egg depicts those characters that strive to become rich and obtain money in “get-rich-quick schemes” as shown by Gatsby’s bootlegging. Having large amounts of money for a long period of time is prejudicial as it causes corruption and makes the owners become desensitized, shallow, selfish and hypocritical. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows his distaste towards the deceitful aristocratic class through Tom and Daisy, the two East Eggers. Both Tom and Daisy have been blessed with their luxurious lifestyle, but they become superficial through the hypocrisy within their relationships; frivolity for materialism and wealth; and lack of sympathy and moral values.
Early on in the novel, we learn that everyone knows of Tom having “some woman in New York.” (20) We find out later that this woman is Myrtle Wilson, George Wilson’s wife. Tom, Nick and Myrtle head out to New York where they......

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