![]() Like the some characters in this book who have ego about their money and education, the rich towns embody the power and pride of the money, showing the importance of money in the society at that time. This shows the power of finance the other settings with a lot of money –for example, East Egg-is “fashionable, and glitter along the water” (Fitzgerald 10) yet the valley of ashes is not only unfashionable but also lifeless in the description. ![]() The author gives no life to the valley making everything in the valley to be covered by ashes. This represents the concealed society underneath the prosperity, the town that its existence makes the West and East Egg much greater and richer. Unlike the other locations, the valley of ashes is the town of poverty and paucity, where everything is covered in ash, lacking the beauty of life. After describing West Egg and East Egg in chapter one, the illustration of dark, dim and muted town serves as the direct contrast of the wealthy places. Introducing this scene of valley of ashes, the author shows the readers the contrast of the locations. ![]() ![]() Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight” (Fitzgerald 27). This is a valley of ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. ![]() Passage Analysis “About half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs besides it for a quarter of a mile so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. ![]()
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