In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby and Nick Carraway both live in West Egg, where the new money is, while the old money is in the East Egg. The West Egg is considered the least fashionable compared to the East Egg. Gatsby ends up throwing a very loud party to try to impress Daisy. Instead of impressing Daisy, the parties and people of West Egg are seen as vulgar, garish and ostentatious. Upper class people, like Tom Buchanan, say they would never live anywhere other than the East Egg because the East Egg people are much more classy and elegant than everyone else. Fitzgerald uses these two places as primary examples of his hatred of social classes and the snobbery they represent. Fitzgerald also uses Amory Blaine in This Side of Paradise, to show his contempt for social classes. Amory's family has a pretty good amount of money but he is still not part of the elite class. Amory idolizes Dick Humbird, who he believes represents what every upper-class man sought to be. Amory hates social classes but that's only because he's not upper class (Hendrickson, Themes Par 2). Amory hates the upper class but desires it