East Egg Flashcards
Tom talking about his house
“I’ve got a nice place here”
- confident and assured wants to showcase his generational wealth.
how the houses are described
“white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water.”
East Egg being influenced by culture
“Italian gardens” “french windows”
The purity of EE
“the windows…gleaming white against the fresh grass”
Lots of detail in Tom and Daisy’s house
“frosted-wedding cake of the ceiling.”
the size of the furniture, highlighting the excess of EE
“Enormous couch”
Jordan and daisy’s costume emphasising the purity of EE
“white…dresses”
“rippling and fluttering”
Tom stops beauty
“shut the rear windows…wind died out”
It is not just the consequences that don not affect EE but also the weather
“heat” - outside
“cool” - inside the house
Wealth causes the rich to relax. D&J qoute
“Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch like silver idols” “white dresses”
Infidelity takes place in an area seen as ‘pure’
“that’s Tom’s girl on the telephone”
