West Valley City

February of 2009, I invited her over to have a sleepover and we reconnected. The following year, I was to be getting my education at West Valley City School and Jordan was going to be going there as well. I learned Jordan's dad had passed away the year we disconnected. It was woebegone that i wasn't able to be with her through that rough period. Throughout my years at City School I had made more friends but still had Jojo right by my side. There have been times where Jordan and I have had arguments where

place in an early 1920’s New York City. The protagonist Nick Carraway, Tells his story about a mysterious man commonly known as Jay Gatsby. Through Nick's honesty the reader soon learns that money does not always buy happiness. Locations such as The Valley of Ashes,

and novel context. The profound contrast between suburbs, East Egg and West Egg, reflect the values of Tom and Daisy Buchannan, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. Tom and Daisy are superficial characters, living in a suburb of incredibly wealthy and egotistical people. Jay Gatsby is represented as a hopeful young man, aspiring to achieve his dream of marrying Daisy, through the setting of West Egg and it’s portrayal. New York City represents the diverse population of America, filled with immorality and

First of all, the culture in New York City and Long Island in the 1920’s was roaring with many good and bad opportunities. There were many choices to be had, from parties to nightclubs to movie theaters. “The twenties witnessed the large scale use of automobiles, telephones, motion pictures, and electricity” (Boundless) which opened up a new way of life. These things changed every day life and drew people from the country to the city and attracted foreigners. The city was always in constant motion, from

Age throughout the text. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald uses may literary techniques accompanied with comical satire about the 1920’s. Fitzgerald fabricates clear parallels between geography, social values, and characters. West Egg, East Egg, New York City, and the Valley of Ashes are all geographic symbols Fitzgerald uses to emphasize social status in that time era. Fitzgerald encompasses geographic symbols associated with different characters to further stress the significance of social status

development. Fitzgerald uses East and West Egg communities to portray two separate worlds and two classes of people that are technically the same their status, but fundamentally different in their ideals. The physical geography of the settings is representative of the distance between classes of the East and West Eggers. Every setting connotes a different tone and enhances the imagery of story line. From the wealthy class of the "eggs", the desolate "valley of ashes", to the chaos of

social class and the four main locations, The East Egg, the West Egg, the Valley of Ashes, and New York City. In The Great Gatsby

include the people they surround themselves with and where they live. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the characters are greatly affected by the environment in which they live. The novel’s four locations - East Egg, West Egg, the Valley of Ashes, and New York City - directly relate to the residents’ social status, lifestyle, and personality. East Egg is home to Daisy and Tom Buchanan, who have been rich their whole lives. In this way, East Egg symbolizes old money. Neither Daisy nor Tom

economic status than white Americans. As shown in Making the San Fernando Valley, “On one end of the valley [the west side], gated mansions and old ranch houses still preside over well-groomed neighborhoods; on the other side [the east side], some residents still don’t have sewer hookups or streetlights. On the west side of the Valley, a majority of residents are white, whereas on the east side, just one third are; West Valley residents also earn five thousand dollars more per year…. Educational achievements

setting to help show the differences in social classes between the East Egg, West Egg, NYC and the Valley of Ashes. The Great Gatsby occurs during the 1920s in America. There are two different social classes, the rich (which live in the eggs) and the poor ( which lives in the the Valley of Ashes). During the twenties it was a time of a dying American Dream. Most people praised wealth and materialism.The east and west egg is across from each other separated by water. The east egg represents