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Some place names in the story are real; others are invented. The story is set on Long Island, which stretches for more than 100 miles east of New York City. West Egg in the story is Great Neck (where Scott Fitzgerald himself lived), and East Egg is Sands Point, the end of the Port Washington peninsula, which lies just across Manhasset Bay.

In the story the East refers to the east coast of the United States, and the West to the west coast. The Middle West, or Mid-West, includes states like Minnesota and cities like Chicago. However, anybody who was not from the east coast might be called a Westerner.