Gatsby Tour Map
East Egg:
Long Island Sound
West Egg:
- Gatsby’s Mansion
- Nick’s Bungalow
Manhatten
Vally of Ashes:
- The Billboard for Dr. T. J. Eckleburg
- The Railroad Tracks
- The Road to NYC
- George Wilson’s Garage
- Michaelis’ Café
- Long Island Sound: Body of water between East & West Egg(Long Island) and Connecticut.
-“Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs…jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound”(5)
East Egg:
A peninsula of Long Island where “old money” lives. People who have inherited their wealth live here, including Daisy and Tom. The residents are esteemed, high-class, and well-acquainted with the life of luxury. And much like the residents, the homes are classy, long-standing, and naturally luxurious. Parties thrown here are small and private.
The Buchanan’s House:
The home of Tom and Daisy Buchanon, located on the East Egg. Represents the “old money” of Tom’s family. “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.”
- West Egg: “New Money” People who have earned their wealth.
–“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” (5)
- Gatsby’s Mansion: West Egg. The home of Jay Gatsby. Has a view of Daisy and the Buchanon’s mansion.
-–“The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming-pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion.” (5)—“If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay,” said Gatsby. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock”(92)
- Nick’s Bungalow: West Egg. The house of Nick, the narrator of the story. First meeting point of G&D
–-”My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season”(5)–-“...a small eye-sore and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor’s lawn and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month”(5)
- The Valley of Ashes: The industreal area between the Eggs and Manhatten
-“ This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight”(23).
- The Railroad Tracks & Road to NYC:
-“About halfway 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”(23).
- The Billboard for Dr. T. J. Eckleburg:
--“But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground”(pp. 23-24).
- George Wilson’s Garage: Home of Myrtle (Tom’s mistress).
--“The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it, and contiguous to absolutely nothing. One of the three shops it contained was for rent and another was an all-night restaurant, approached by a trail of ashes; the third was a garage—Repairs. GEORGE B. WILSON. Cars bought and sold”(24-25)
- Michaelis’ Café: The all-night restaurant next to Wilson’s Garage, owned by the main witness of Myrtle's death.
-“The young Greek, Michaelis, who ran the coffee joint beside the ashheaps, was the principal witness at the inquest”(136).
- Manhattan: New York, Toms apartment, Where Nick meets Wolfsheim.
-Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world(68).-“Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge,” I thought; “anything at all.…” Even Gatsby could happen, without any particular wonder(69).-At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment-houses. Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases, and went haughtily in”(28)--“The old Metropole,” brooded Mr. Wolfshiem gloomily. “Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can’t forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there”(70).