His house symbolizes himself shy and overlooked. Nick lives in a new-rich West Egg because he is not wealthy enough to afford a house in the more prominent East Egg. Nick lives in West Egg in a rented house that “ a small eye-sore” and “had been overlooked”(Fitzgerald 10). This sense symbolizes Tom’s brutality, and as Perkins’s says in his manuscript to Fitzgerald “I would know…īuchanan if I met him and would avoid him,” because Tom is so cold and brute (Perkins 199). The House also has a cold sense to it according to Nick. Their stable wealth, although lacking the vulgarity of new wealth, is symbolic of their empty future and now purposelessness lives together. East egg and Toms home represents the established wealth and traditions. Their house, a “red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay” with its “wine-colored rug” is just as impressive as Gatsby’s house but much more low-key (Fitzgerald 11)(13). Tom’s and Daisy’s home is on the East Egg. East Egg is home to the more prominent established wealth families. The Buchanan’s house is symbolic of their ideals. Gatz’s house is a mixture of different styles and periods which symbolizes an owner who does not know their true identity. Gatsby’s house like his car symbolizes his vulgar and excessive trait of getting attention. He needs “The house he feels he needs in order to win happiness” and it is also the perfect symbol of carelessness with money which is a major part of his personality (Bewley 24). Gatsbys large income isnt enough to keep him happy.