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It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York—and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end 去书内
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    Among them, more east egg town and West Egg town are the most typical. First of all, the naming division between the East and the West has given readers a preliminary impression of opposition, suggesting the opposition between the two classes. And through the understanding of the plot, we can know that Nick and Gatsby live in the west, where people have no real social status even if they have money, symbolizing youth, purity and warmth.

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