WEST EGG in Classic Quotes

1  I ought to have dropped you in West Egg, Nick.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

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

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

3  I got to West Egg by a side road," he went on, "and left the car in my garage.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

4  By half past two he was in West Egg where he asked someone the way to Gatsby's house.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

5  When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5

6  The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

7  All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, were plunging home through the rain from New York.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5

8  From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9

9  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

10  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

11  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2

12  This reminded me that I had forgotten to tell my Finn to come back so I drove into West Egg Village to search for her among soggy white-washed alleys and to buy some cups and lemons and flowers.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5

13  My Finn informed me that Gatsby had dismissed every servant in his house a week ago and replaced them with half a dozen others, who never went into West Egg Village to be bribed by the tradesmen, but ordered moderate supplies over the telephone.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

14  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

15  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

16  Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

17  She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village--appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short cut from nothing to nothing.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6