East Egg
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East Egg is the fictional, wealthy Long Island community in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby," symbolizing old money, social status, and inherited privilege.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
fictional place
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fictional town → literary location → |
| appearsIn |
The Great Gatsby
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| associatedTheme |
American Dream
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appearance versus reality → class division → moral decay beneath wealth → social stratification → |
| associatedWith |
Daisy Buchanan
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Jordan Baker → Tom Buchanan → |
| coexistsWith |
New York City (fictionalized)
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Valley of Ashes → |
| comparedTo |
aristocratic Europe
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| contrastedWith |
West Egg
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| countryInFiction |
United States
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| createdBy |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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| firstAppearance |
The Great Gatsby (1925)
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| genreContext |
American modernist literature
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| hasHousingType |
large mansions
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| hasReputationInStory |
fashionable
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respectable → socially prestigious → |
| hasResidentsType |
established wealthy families
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| languageOfWork |
English
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| literaryRole |
symbolic geography in The Great Gatsby
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| locatedInFiction |
Long Island
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| locatedNearFiction |
West Egg
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| medium |
novel
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| modeledOn |
Sands Point, Long Island
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| narrativeFunction |
foil to West Egg’s nouveau riche society
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setting of the Buchanans’ mansion → |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
The Great Gatsby universe
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| socialClassType |
old money elite
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| symbolizes |
aristocratic privilege
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class hierarchy → established upper class → inherited wealth → moral hypocrisy → old money → social exclusivity → social status → surface elegance → tradition → |
| timePeriodInFiction |
Jazz Age
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Roaring Twenties → |
| wealthType |
inherited wealth
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Referenced by (7)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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West Egg
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contrastedWith |
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Valley of Ashes
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contrastsWith |
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West Egg
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neighborOfFictional |
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Tom Buchanan
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residence |
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Daisy Buchanan
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residesIn |
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The Great Gatsby
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setInLocation |
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Jordan Baker
("East Egg society")
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socialCircle |