West Egg vs East Egg

• 'from West Egg came... Dan Shchwartze...' 


  traditionally Jewish surnace that partner with the frowned upon activities of WE.
• 'From East Egg .... Bunsen whom i knew at Yale... flipped up their noises.' 


  english names rooted in old money.

  parrallelism
• 'i lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two' pg10


  colloquial mitigation = shame

  euphemism for less class
• 'the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water' pg11


  semantic lexical field of fantasy
• 'i'll stay in the East, don't you worry... i'd be a god damned fool to live anywhere else' pg15
• 'east egg condescending to west egg and carefully on guard against it's spectroscopic gaiety.' pg46

  elitism in Nick - Marxist lens