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Related Themes: Related Symbols: Page Number: 23 Explanation and Analysis Nick begins the second chapter by ruminating on the Valley of Ashes between West Egg and New York City. Though his descriptions are evocative, they refer to a relatively decrepit and downtrodden region. Fitzgerald accomplishes this effect by using a set of semi- sarcastic words and uncanny images. The nouns in the area “farm,” “ridges,” “hills,” “gardens,” “houses,” and “chimneys” all would seem to describe a normal rural environment—yet all these characteristic signs of civilization are composed of dust instead of actual materials. This Valley, then is “fantastic” only in that the dust has entirely replaced the physical environment. That the “ashes grow like wheat” indicates that debris has replaced actual agricultural production, while the constitution of the men as themselves in the form of ashes dehumanizes them and makes them the mere result of the smog. The imagery speaks to both the squalor caused by the roaring twenties culture and the relative blindness of many Americans to those effects: the dust in the valley is the direct result of New York industry—and of the wish to outsource unsightly waste. The “impenetrable cloud” and “obscure operations” stresses how that outsourcing has allowed those with money to entirely ignore the effects of their exploits. This passages is thus a condemnation of the social and economic practices in the novel. Fitzgerald implies that people may travel through the Valley between West Egg and New York City, but they relate to its environment only as various combinations of undifferentiated dust. Chapter 3 Quotes He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or Vve times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. Download 0.5 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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