The author's diction augments life among the ashes. The "ash-gray men" "crumbling through the powdery air" live in this "valley of the ashes". The inhabitants of this valley have become reminiscent shells of their former selves, and the fragile shells easily disintegrate into empty and elapsed lives. The people of this dismal place have been as drained and used as their environment. "The motor road hastily joins the rail road" "as to shrink away" from the oppressive ashes easily stirred into an "impenetrable cloud". The segment of the road passing t

hrough the valley is so alien and distasteful Nick perceives even the road cowering for comfort. Those traveling past it are made uncomfortable by the unfamiliar scenes. The people riding the train gaze out of the valley as but an eyesore, but for those living among the ashes they are burnt out like the landscape.

Fitzgerald heightens the passage by assigning calculated detail about the region and it denizens. The "men swarm up with leaden spades" in a communal effort to save a car that gave out a "ghastly creak" in this "desolate area of land". Every aspect is exaggerated or decreased, the men are slightly less than human and the noise even more wretched. Even the cars are gray and impoverished and are burning out, though there owners still plod onward. "Ashes grow like wheat" and "take the form of houses and chimneys", next to where "grotesque gardens" grow. The animation of the ash illustrates the constant pervasion of it. As u

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Approximate Word count = 637
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)