In The Great Gatsby, both Gatsby and Nick Carraway live in West Egg, which is where the new money is located, while the old money is located in the East Egg. The West Egg is considered less hip than the East Egg. Gatsby ends up throwing a very loud party to try to impress Daisy. Instead of impressing Daisy, the parties and people living in West Egg are seen as vulgar, showy, and ostentatious. Upper class people, like Tom Buchanan, say they would never live anywhere other than the East Egg because the people in the East Egg are much more classy and elegant than anyone else. Fitzgerald uses these two places as prime examples of his hatred of social classes and the snobbery they represent. Fitzgerald also uses Amory Blaine in This Side of Paradise, to show his contempt for social classes. Amory's family has a decent amount of money, but he is not yet part of the elite class. Amory idolizes Dick Humbird who he believes represents what every upper class man sought to be. Amory hates social classes but that is only because she is not part of the upper class (Hendrickson, Themes Par 2). Amory hates the upper class but desires it
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