![]() It is also shown as a stepping stone to a better, wealthier way of life as it is the road to either the West Egg or to New York where the rich people live and where the money-making businesses are located. “Occasionally a line of gray car’s crawls along an invisible track”(23). ![]() This shows the reader that people only drive through the Valley of Ashes to get either to their homes or to work. This allows us to understand the nature of the Valley of Ashes as a poor place. The Valley of Ashes is represented in this novel as hell. “Then the valley of ashes opened out on both sides of us” (68). This shows the reader that the Valley of Ashes just opens up and swallows people. It shows the reader that it is a place where some people have to go no matter what happens and it just comes at people without even recognizing it.
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