Across the bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water ."" ... The description of Gatsby's mansion shows the distorted ideals of what money meant to him: "The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard "it was a factual imitation of some Hotel 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. ...

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Therefore leading him to describe her as "the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in ithigh in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl" (120). ... Interestingly he pays "eighty dollars a month" for a mansion that "was a factual imitation of some Hotel 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" (5). ...

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• Grade Level: High School