Where did Nick First Live In The Great Gatsby?
Where did Nick Carraway live after the war?
Who lives in East and West Egg in The Great Gatsby?
Where is Nick Carraway from?
What did Nick do before coming to West Egg?
The novel’s narrator, Nick Carraway, hails from a prominent, well-to-do midwestern family and describes the Carraways as something of a clan. Nick mentions that his family has lived in the Midwest for three generations and are descendants of the Dukes of Buccleuch.
Tom and Daisy Buchanan are married and live in East Egg. Gatsby and Nick live in West Egg. Gatsby lives in a mansion; Nick lives in a small cottage next door.
West Egg
In the spring of 1922, Nick takes a house in the fictional village of West Egg on Long Island, where he finds himself living among the colossal mansions of the newly rich. Across the water in the more refined village of East Egg live his cousin Daisy and her brutish, absurdly wealthy husband Tom Buchanan.
