WEST EGG in Classic Quotes

1  "You live in West Egg," she remarked contemptuously.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  We hadn't reached West Egg village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored suit.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

3  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 Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  About half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  Instead of rambling this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside--East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages, where new red gas-pumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned grass roller in the yard.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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