East Egg vs. West Egg

The East and West Egg of the Great Gatsby differ greatly. East Egg is full of wealthy people, as is West Egg, but East Egg has many of the "old money" people, such as Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Tom has had his wealth passed down throughout generations. The East Egg thinks of themselves as a higher class above the West Egg. West Egg is made up of "new money", people who have recently acquired wealth. Jay Gatsby is an example of new money, getting all his money from bootlegging. New money was not as well-respected as old money was back then.

The two Eggs are both determined by money, but one is more moral in the way they earned, and the other is not as respectable. We found this article on the internet about the differences between the East and West Egg.
"In the book The Great Gatsby, East Egg and West Egg are used as metaphors for the East and the Middle West. While the "aristocrats" Tom and Daisy live in East Egg, the newly rich Gatsby lives in West Egg. Even though Gatsby shows off with his wealth and tries to fit in the "aristocratic" society, the fact that he is living in West Egg, shows that the distance between East and West does not become smaller, because West Egg stays the “less fashionable of the two” (http://www.ovtg.de/3_arbeit/englisch/gatsby/eastwest.html)