The great gatsby locations?

Question: The great gatsby locations!?

in the novel, are east egg and west egg real places or are they meant to be other places!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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West Egg in the book is in fact Great Neck, Long Island and East Egg is Manhasset!.
When they go into town, they are in fact driving into New York City!.

The Fitzgerald's moved to Great Neck, Long Island after their first child was born, and F!. Scott appropriated it as the setting of his novel!.

The two peninsulas can be seen on any map of Long Island!. They are on the north shore in Nassau County, just east of Queens borough!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

West Egg and East Egg are real places!. The story was set in northeast Connecticut, but the state is never mentioned, only the cities (Fitzgerald's wife is from a suburb out of West Egg, Connecticut)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

In New York, Great Neck became the new-money peninsula of "West Egg" and Manhasset Neck the old-money peninsula of "East Egg"!.
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Ah, West and East Egg are fictional!.

Zelda Fitzgerald was an Alabama belle!.

The location is thought to be the New York neck area!. Www@QuestionHome@Com