Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the desolate and yet whimsical expressions are amplified by the authors rich detail and character. The reader is shown to the "valley of the ashes" and narrator Nick Carroway ’s lasting perception of the valley is portrayed. A clinical and detached account is expected from such an observer, in contrast what is received is tainted with fancy. The author’s diction augments life among the ashes. The "…showed first 75 words of 607 total…

…showed last 75 words of 607 total…symbol of an exhausted land and an exhausted people of a an industrial society. Literary scholars claim that Fitzgerald the inspiration and the term for the "valley of ashes" were coined from T.S. Elliot’ s poem "The Waste Land". The valley of ashes was an ulcer adulterating a beautiful landscape. It was a different world for the pampered and affluent who lived without the force of ashes, of burnt out lives on their shoulders.