Read the excerpt from The Great Gatsby. I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. The phrase, “I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two” reveals the narrator’s upper-middle-class, socioeconomic standing. the narrator’s awareness of social judgments and their central role in the novel. the narrator’s deep desire to fit in and be friends with the fashionable crowd. the narrator’s insecurities as he befriends a new group of individuals.
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In the given excerpt from the book 'The Great Gatsby,' the phrase, “I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two” reveals the narrator’s awareness of social judgments and their central role in the novel.
The major conflict of the book 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald is based on wealth and social status.
According to Wikipedia, 'The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.'