West Egg, East Egg and Everybody Else

At east egg, you are considered to be more classy than those at west egg because you were born into your wealth. I think that this is ridiculous because the people that live in west egg have actually worked at earning what they have while the east eggers have had everything handed to them on a silver platter since the day they were born. everyone of those east egg families started out at west egg in some sense, they were all poor at some time and they all had to build their empire on their own (or "luck into it"). it is also aggravating that while people from east egg have so many hard opinions on those from west, they still find time to go to Gatsby's parties and marvel over everything he has. Meanwhile the everybody else in this scenario would kill to live at either of these "eggs", the other people who range from low to middle class and cannot understand the problems of the rich because they actually have to work to keep their meager homes and humble lifestyles. This book focuses mainly around the rich and their flashy lifestyles so it is easy to get caught up in the illusions that it was like this for everybody in the twenties but it was most certainly not, the twenties may have held a lot of opportunities but it was also a time of depression and financial struggle throughout the US. The only character in this book that can even slightly resonate with this is Nick because he is actually trying to be self-sufficient. All though he lives in West egg, Nick understands somewhat of the financial struggles that some people have to deal with.