Read the excerpt from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, 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.
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.
The contrast created between East Egg and West Egg suggests that
the main character feels comfortable in all social situations.
Nick will experience a series of financial pitfalls as the story unfolds.
the story's conflict will be based on wealth and appearances.
the story will be presented from a number of differing perspectives.

From the reading of the text, the contrast created between East Egg and West Egg suggests that the story's conflict will be based on wealth and appearances.

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The story's conflict will be based on wealth and appearances.

Explanation:

The main character lives in West Egg, in a small, comfortable, but not very nice-looking house. However, he feels just fine there.

However, he himself declares that the story will only unfold once he visits the wealthier, and more fashionable East Egg, and for that reason, we can say that the conflict of the story will based on wealth and appearances.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.