| Physical Setting: East Egg (“Across… | Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water |
| Physical Setting: West Egg | I lived at West Egg…the less fashionable of the two |
| Physical Setting: East/West Egg are … | A pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour |
| Physical Setting: Inhabitants of East/West Egg represent contrasting views attitudes | A more interesting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size |
| Physical Setting: The Valley of Ashes – epitomises the tough/uncomfortable work | Ash grey men…swarm up with leaden spades |
| Physical Setting: The Valley is described as | Grotesque, crumbling, ghastly |
| Physical Setting: Valley of Ashes – Road is personified as wanting to escape the valley | The motor road hastily joins the railroad..as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land |
| Physical NYC: Shows NYC’s vibrant/exciting nature | I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it |
| Physical NYC: Meyer Wolfsheim is | Quite a character around New York…the man who fixed the World Series |
| Physical Setting: Gatsby’s Mansion is a | Factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy |
| Physical Setting: Gatsby’s Mansion: Gatsby… | Bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay |
| Physical Setting: Gatsby’s Mansion: “I think he… | I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes |
| Physical Setting: Gatsby….of his book collections | Didn’t cut the pages |
| Physical Setting: library possesses a wider meaning – serves to represent Gatsby’s façade | If one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse |
Setting Quotes – Great Gatsby
April 6, 2020