Nick lives in West Egg, a peninsula separated from its opposite, East Egg, by a "courtesy bay" on Long Island Sound. Nick rents a "small eye-sore" next to two large properties. He says that both places rent for "twelve or fifteen thousand a season." On one side is Gatsby's mansion. Nick describes it as palatial:
...it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new...
Nick lives in West Egg, a peninsula separated from its opposite, East Egg, by a "courtesy bay" on Long Island Sound. Nick rents a "small eye-sore" next to two large properties. He says that both places rent for "twelve or fifteen thousand a season." On one side is Gatsby's mansion. Nick describes it as palatial:
...it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.
Gatsby's house is right across the bay from Tom and Daisly Buchanan's large mansion on East Egg. Symbolically, West Egg represents new money and "the less fashionable of the two." East Egg represents old money and it is this, along with Daisy's beauty which motivates Gatsby. He very much wants to impress Daisy and he desperately hopes she will show up at one of his lavish parties at his mansion which is designed implicitly to be shown off to her.
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