Read the excerpt from The Great Gatsby. I lived at West Egg, theâ€"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, theâ€"well, the less fashionable of the two" reveals the narratorâ€™s upper-middle-class, socioeconomic standing. the narratorâ€™s awareness of social judgments and their central role in the novel. the narratorâ€™s deep desire to fit in and be friends with the fashionable crowd. the narratorâ€™s insecurities as he befriends a new group of individuals.

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Zechariah Alvarez

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21 October, 10:04

Read the excerpt from The Great Gatsby. I lived at West Egg, theâ€"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, theâ€"well, the less fashionable of the two" reveals the narratorâ€™s upper-middle-class, socioeconomic standing. the narratorâ€™s awareness of social judgments and their central role in the novel. the narratorâ€™s deep desire to fit in and be friends with the fashionable crowd. the narratorâ€™s insecurities as he befriends a new group of individuals.

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Azaria Russell · Answer 1

The narrator's awareness of social judgments and their central role in the novel.

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By using this sentence the narrator shows how different both places are, since West Egg was a humble place and East Egg is totally the opposite, the latter was way more fashionable and full of luxuries, and this fact has very much importance in the story.