And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens-finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run. The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.
"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. " (Chapter 1)
East Egg has mostly people who come from old money, people who have rich background.
Instead of rambling, this part had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the country side - East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gaiety. JOSEPH WEI
I looked around. Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands. Even Jordan's party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension. (chapter 3) - Andy yu
Clarence Endive was from East Egg, as I remember. He came only once, in white knickerbockers, and had a fight with a bum named Etty in the garden. (page 67)
"Instead of rambling, this part had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the country side - East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gaiety." (Fitzgerald 33)
And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens-finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run. The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.
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I looked around. Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands. Even Jordan's party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension. (chapter 3) - Andy yu
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Delete"Instead of rambling, this part had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the country side - East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gaiety." (Fitzgerald 33)
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