... their residents. The word "egg" suggests vitality and contrasts to Fitzgerald's description of "the valley of ashes," the area of New York where the poorer citizens live. The "Egg" and "ashes" contrast as the ashes represent death and decay. In this way, Fitzgerald shows us how different the wealthy elite were from normal people. This ... by how Fitzgerald describes each place through color. He describes Tom and Daisy's house as "a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial Mansion" in contrast to the valley of ashes, which is a "grey land." Through the absence of color in the valley in c...

• Word Count: 1663
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the glamorous city life could achieve this. The area in between West Egg and New York City, known as the valley of ashes, is a long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. The valley of ashes epitomizes the morality of the 1920s and the unrestricted desire for wealth and pleasure without regard for anything else. In the valley of ... ashes there is a billboard with fading eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, almost looking over the valley. These eyes signify God looking down upon American society of the 1920s and judging society as a ... ...

• Word Count: 1603
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . Occupying the middle of the space that separates the Eggs in territorial land space was also a desolate plain of sprawling valley where New York ashes are dumped. The men who work in this valley work at shoveling the ashes. Watching all the activities that go on in this valley are two gigantic, fixated and ever watching eyes of a gimmick spectacle from the ... advertisement of a billboard by Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. Dr. T.J. Eckleburg is a long gone surgeon. While the narrator does not give a direct explanation of the symbolism of the eyes watching over the ashes valley, the most pervasive ...

• Word Count: 7760
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... like the rippling and fluttering dresses which are essentially void and empty despite their purity and beauty.The preclude of the second chapter offers an impressive picture of "a valley of ashes" located between East Egg and West Egg. The color gray occupied the whole scene, showing a "trash valley" with no life and emotions.In the "ashheaps", the blue and gigantic eyes ... and corruption of evil money. So do the yellow windows of the apartment where Tom dated his mistress. Yellow has been tinted with decadence and degeneration of the valley of ashes. Therefore the fusion of gray and y...

• Word Count: 1437
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... be free from class distinction. The novel reflects a divided society with reference to the "valley of the ashes", a "dismal" and "desolate" wasteland. The "valley of the ashes" is described as a symbolism of those who have failed the American dream, it was a "fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens... of ash grey men". In contrast, there was ... ...

• Word Count: 715
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music."" This can be examined as his attempt to reject the "grey "world of the poor" as seen in the Valley of Ashes. Gatsby condemned poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication even from his early years, for example he dropped out of St. Olaf's College after only two weeks because he could ... , if you're rich you're ever old rich or nouveau rich finally (again depending on wealth) you ever live in a world of colour or live in a grey world of ashes. These differences are defined so plainly that the book is presenting any differences...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... course sees only the pure light of the grail which he has "committed himself" to follow. The reader, however, sees a great deal more: sees, for example, the grotesque "valley of ashes," "the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it" the sordid reality lying beneath the fictions of the American dream of limitless Opportunity and Achievement ... ...

• Word Count: 664
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... make his degrating opinion towards the poor evident. Similarily, in the great gatsby, the character of Wison represents the lower class in American Society. Wilson lives in the valley of ashes where the poor people who have been consumed by the society and become its product all reside. Tom Buchanan who is one of the characters which represents the wealthy in ... ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate