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. . . . Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans. Based on these descriptions, what inference can be made about the difference between West Egg and East Egg? The wealthy residents of East Egg hide their unattractive qualities beneath light and dreamy appearances. Because the residents of West Egg have only recently earned their money, they are more sophisticated. West Egg is less fashionable because its residents have much less money than the residents of East Egg. The residents of West Egg and East Egg are noticeably different from one another, but they often socialize together.