West Egg
New-money Long Island
West Egg is a fictional village on Long Island in F.
Scott Fitzgerald's novel *The Great Gatsby*, where the nouveau riche live in conspicuous mansions across the bay from the old-money residents of East Egg.
The name evokes new wealth striving for acceptance, social aspiration, and the hollow promise of the American Dream: He's very West Egg—flashy car, enormous house, but no one knows where the money came from.
- new moneySelf-earned, not inherited wealth
- Long IslandNYC's suburban peninsula
- Long Island SoundTidal estuary south of Connecticut
- mansionLarge, stately home
- nouveau richeRecently wealthy, often showy
Gatsby · lavish · parties · jazz · jazz age · roaring twenties · Buchanan · dock · green light · 1920s · opulence · champagne · wealth · Fitzgerald · bootlegger · yellow car · harbor · money
- Lost GenerationLost Generation, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, expatriates
West Eggold money
Long-established family fortune
aristocracy · blue blood · generational wealth · landed gentry · patrician class
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