The Great Gatsby

I need two short quotes that are within the first chapter only of The Great Gatsby.

The quotes need to contrast the culture/society of the West Egg and the East Egg. Please include page numbers.

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"like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end — but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size." Page 5

"I lived at West Egg, the — well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. " Page 6

Note, my page numbers may not match yours but the chapter is the same (chapter 1)