Chapter One

Picture:A red and white mansion of 1920’s in Long Island

The red and white mansion on Long Island expresses the wealth along the two eggs. To begin, the color red is associated with joy, love, life, shame, rage and death. As well, the book is based around the setting of Long island. The Buchanan's are characters who own a red and white mansion. Tom is described as red many times throughout the text, while Daisy is more white. White is associated with innocence and purity. Tom and Daisy are a very unhappy couple causing rage between them. Although they were once in love before. There house inside is described as " We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space (13)." Also, the mansion expresses the display of wealth, and giving it a view of beauty and value.

Quotes

" The whole town is desolate. All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath and there’s a persistent wail all night along the North Shore"(14). The significance of this quote is that is expresses falseness. Nick tells Daisy that everyone misses her, even though truth is no one really does.

"Tom Buchanan who had been hovering restlessly about the room stopped and rested his hand on my shoulder"(14). The significance of this quote is that is expresses the boredom that the wealthy people reveal.

"I’ll tell you a family secret,"she whispered enthusiastically. "Its about the butler’s nose. Do you want to hear about the butler’s nose"(18). The significance of this quote is that gossiping is always being brought about between the wealthy because in reality they have nothing better to do.

"Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard"…The idea is if we don’t look out the white race we be-will be utterly submerged"(17). The significance expressed is that racism is being reveal from Tom Buchanan and that many of the wealthy are racist to other nationalities.

Symbolism: Egg(Setting)

Throughout chapter one the settings of the West and East eggs are expressed. The two enormous eggs are separated by a bay in the western hemisphere. They are also explained to be crushed flat. Though the eggs may look a lot alike, they are different economically. Some references used throughout the book to describe these islands are "hard boiled" and "warm centered". In addition, the symbolism of the eggs is that they equal people. People may look one way on the outside, but be totally different in the inside. Also, these to islands are located along the side of Long Island. The West Egg is known as the "less fashionable", Nick and Gatsby live there. But, the East Egg is know as the "fashionable", this is because more of the "old money" people live here like the Buchanan's. All in all, the people who live here are what they seem to be.Furthermore, both islands have lavishing houses and parties in certain areas of each one. For example,Gatsby has gigantic parties in his mansion of West Egg.