... remainder of her life. Myrtle Wilson's sister, Catherine, declares that Myrtle was "crazy about [George, her husband] for a while" (p. 39). Myrtle Wilson vehemently denies being "crazy in love" with George, but rather, that "[t]he only crazy I was was when I married him" (p. 39). Myrtle explains that George was not the person she thought he was because he was wearing a borrowed suit at the ... of Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker. For instance, Tom Buchanan has an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson, the wife of a gas station proprietor down in the valley of the ashes - an industrial ...

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... . Another way in which Fitzgerald casts doubt on the American Dream is through his use of the Valley of Ashes, a place that lacks life, colour, spirit or hope. "A fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys of ash- grey men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the ... powdery air." This quotation highlights that the Valley of Ashes has arisen due to the City's waste production, and is progressing. "Ash-grey men" depicts them as barely living; there is such pitiable quality of life. This...

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... . 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 ...

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... it is still no match for what the conceptual American Dream promises, " sitting on the edge of the wasteland, a sort of compact contiguous to absolutely nothing approached by a trail of ashes was a garage [George's]."" (p. 24) George Wilson couldn't achieve financial ability, because he, like Nick, is also alone. His garage is "contiguous to absolutely nothing-, referring that he, himself, is also ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School