I wonder, Connections, Social Satire

   I wonder if "The West" has anything to do with "West Egg" in Great Gatsby. I also wonder if  the story was a work of magical realism, or if it was just exaggeration. For the turn of the century, the kind of phenomena that Percy showed John was uncanny. Even now a lot of those things were hard to believe. There's never been enough diamond to make a mountain.
   Fitzgerald teases youth by how fantastical their ideology is. Percy made everything seem so amazing for John, but treated John's comments as overstatements. Fitzgerald makes fun of wealth by placing a setting in this huge "behemoth" of astounding things. This alludes to rich people always living in private manors and having just about everything. Percy lived in this almost-fantasy land, with technology to hide the property from even the government, and a huge diamond mountain. Percy had everything in that kingdom of his, and he didn't take it so seriously. Fitzgerald uses religion to allude how rich people are never satisfied, with the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000. The setting in the story was called Fish --one of the foods Jesus used to feed the people--, and there were twelve men, just as there were twelve disciples of Jesus. This relates to the story by the situation that the crowd of 5,000 had enough food to eat, despite just five loaves of bread and two fish. Rich people have that kind of opportunity every day, except they never have enough of anything-- they only want more and more. Percy made everything "seem like nothing", because he saw them everyday. He took it for-granted.