The Valley of the Ashes.

• 'his eyes brood on over the solemn dumping ground.' chapter two.
• 'his eyes brood on over the solemn dumping ground.'


  motif of eyes

  commercialism running america

  'solem dumping ground' the lower class home
• 'a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens' pg26

  alliteration removing the poetic nature of the novel - more blunt

  simile

  industrial wasteland
• 'where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of ash grey men who move dimly and already crumbly through the powdery air.' pg26


  complex multiclausal sentence conveys smoke choked atmosphere
• ' the eyes of Doc T.J Eckleburg kept their vigil' pg26

  motif of moral authority - criminality placed on WC.
• 'wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ash heaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shapes and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind.' pg151

  alive
• 'like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through amorphous trees' pg134


  adjective - even nature is corrupted by aimless pursuit of wealth