How does Nick Carraway describe the people who came to Gatsby's house that summer? What two groups of people does he describe? Do they fit their stereotypes?

1. Nick Carraway describes the people who came to Gatsby's house that summer as "jubilant strangers." Why? They did not know each other very well nor did they know their host, Jay Gatsby, at whose party they attended.

2. The two groups of people he describes are the East Eggers and The West Eggers. The East Eggers are those capitalists who had been oldly rich. The West Eggers are those capitalists who had become newly rich.

3. As capitalists and socialites, they fit their stereotypes very much. The stereotypes show the divisions that exist in every society. Those who had been rich since normally associated together and usually regarded the newly rich as "boys coming of age." They did not usually mingle, except at social parties.

Explanation:

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It narrates a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island, showing the two divisions among the capitalists. As always, the poor among them lived in-between, in the valley of ashes.

The main protagonist was a self-made millionaire and mysterious figure called Jay Gatsby, who met his tragic death in pursuit of his youthful lover, Daisy Buchanan.