The Ashes

It is an area “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”(23). The valley of ashes is an area between New York and West Egg. The region has many people that undergo work and poverty. It is not just the…

to see everything in your own perspective. The billboard you read about in the novel The Great Gatsby is nothing but just a billboard. The eyes on this billboard belong to Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, who is an optometrist, which watches over the valley of ashes. It In the novel the eyes are associated with a higher power or God. In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates a symbol out of the billboard with eyes; it developed throughout the novel and shows a higher power looking over the city. To…

The rich become richer as the poor becomes poorer. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the extreme gap between the social classes causes havoc, and in the end, death. The lower class lives in bad conditions, covered in ashes. This area known as The Valley of Ashes, is the dumping grounds between the two more favorable areas of West and East Egg. The eggs, only separated by a body of water are completely different because of the people that live in the areas. East egg is home to all of the rich…

classes within the book with all the money they had or all the money they did not have. The color blue represents the lonely times Gatsby had at his gargantuan mansion that was located in West Egg. Then finally the color gray represents the valley of ashes otherwise known as the sickening area between West Egg and East Egg. The color green is very important to the novel because it represented the future Gatsby wanted in his life and this is also known…

Fitzgerald believes is the changing of social classes. Destinction of classes is very prominent in Fitzgerald's most successful novel. He describes the grandeur of East egg with its old money, the showiness of West egg, and the contrasting valley of ashes. The Valley of…

West egg, he refers to it as the “Valley of ashes”. The valley of the ashes is a desolate plain where New York dumps its ashes, the men who work there shovel up the ashes. Unlike the other settings of the book this one shows us a picture of absolute desolation and poverty, it doesn 't have the glamorous appeal of the other settings. The valley symbolizes the moral decay that is hidden beneath the allure of the West egg and East egg. The valley of ashes is the home of the only poor character that…

could really relate to this book in a way that people now cannot. This novel, along with other novels Fitzgerald has written, is full of different symbols. A few of the most prominent symbols in The Great Gatsby are the green light, the valley of ashes, and the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. At the beginning of the novel, it seems that Jay Gatsby is obsessed with the green light on Daisy Buchanan’s dock, and he very well may be, but for Gatsby, the green light symbolizes his hopes, his past…

The Working Poor and the American Dream: Hope lost Because of Class Throughout American history, people have fought for and moved to the United States to live a life of freedom, where they can pursue happiness and achieve their highest goals. The American Dream is viewed by many as accomplishing their desired life, making it unique to everyone with the same outcome: accomplishing their goals. Hope in the American Dream can be lost due to lack of wealth and class, that affect the way people work…

One of Fitzgerald’s symbols, the Valley of Ashes between West Egg and New York City, is a long stretch of bleak land created by the fallout of industrial ashes. The Valley of Ashes represents the moral and social decay that results from the immoral pursuit of wealth. As the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure, the Valley of Ashes also symbolizes the troubles of the poor, like George Wilson, who lives in the Valley of Ashes. One example of moral decay in the…

meaning and a character to his writing. The use of these literary elements made The Great Gatsby more enjoyable and more interesting to read. FItzgerald described the way a society worked in one paragraph by using the meaning behind the valley of ashes, and made the readers not only think a little harder but made them understand the time period in which the book was set and written, therefore creating a deeper understanding of the plots and conflicts that were developed and expressed throughout…