This couple is an example of what kind of people live there, the complete opposite of both eggs, where extremely high class and wealthy people like Gatsby and the Buchanan’s live. The Valley of Ashes is a place of failure. It symbolizes crushed American dreams and hopelessness. The valley practically rots little by little just like the people’s American dreams. In the novel, as readers read, we can see how the valley of ashes rots. The place starts becoming more of a dump place much like the characters and their lives. Instead of getting better, their lives become terrible, confusing and is filled with ungratefulness, selfishness and false realization of what is really important and what’s not. The American Dream and how people were determined to find it involves the pursuit of wealth, which is why Fitzgerald just threw the theme earlier than expected in the novel. As we know that whole novel is based on how everyone wishes they were like Tom, Daisy and Gatsby, even the Nick, the narrator’s goal is to become rich and to learn the “bond business” although
This couple is an example of what kind of people live there, the complete opposite of both eggs, where extremely high class and wealthy people like Gatsby and the Buchanan’s live. The Valley of Ashes is a place of failure. It symbolizes crushed American dreams and hopelessness. The valley practically rots little by little just like the people’s American dreams. In the novel, as readers read, we can see how the valley of ashes rots. The place starts becoming more of a dump place much like the characters and their lives. Instead of getting better, their lives become terrible, confusing and is filled with ungratefulness, selfishness and false realization of what is really important and what’s not. The American Dream and how people were determined to find it involves the pursuit of wealth, which is why Fitzgerald just threw the theme earlier than expected in the novel. As we know that whole novel is based on how everyone wishes they were like Tom, Daisy and Gatsby, even the Nick, the narrator’s goal is to become rich and to learn the “bond business” although