| In the first chapter, this significant quote about Nick’s first look at the Buchanan's house displays a symbol of wealth. "And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens-finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run. The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch." Nick's only family he "scarcely" knew in East egg was Daisy, and he went up there to visit them. East egg is where all the rich people who are known live, and west is the ones who are new to being rich and not very talked about. In the book Great Gatsby, white stands for honorable and red symbolizes for love and joy. The Buchanan's house was full off white and red from the inside and out which is very ironic to me because they're both unfaithful to each other. When said there house was "overlooking the bay," was like Tom's personality, when he likes to be higher and in control than others, like he is to his wife Daisy. Daisy only married in to Tom,(you find out later in chapter 4,)was for money. In her house it said "glowing now with reflected gold and wide open" showing symbolism that daisy needs money in her life to giver her varies of opportunities that she would never have being poor. |