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Chapter 2 : Halfway between West Egg and New York City there is a great valley called the Valley of Ashes. This is where all of New Yorks ashes are dumped. Two men live there and spend there time shoveling the ashes while the two eyes of an old advertising gimmick by a long-vanished eye doctor, stare down from an enormous sign. These unblinking eyes, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, watch over everything that happens in the valley of ashes. Tom and Nick were passing threw on a commuter train one day and Tom forces Nick off at one of the stops to George Wilson's garage. Here is Tom's secret lover Myrtle Wilson, George's wife. From there Tom takes Her and Nick to Manhatten, to their apartment where they have there affair. They have an spur of the moment party with Myrtle's sister and the couple next door the Mcknee's. They are an odd couple and they all get drunk. Here Nick claims to be drunk only for the secound time in his life. You find out here that Jay Gatsby is the nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm, the ruler of Germany during World War I. Nick doesn't like being at the party and leaves and takes the 4 A.M. train back to Long Island.

Colors Introduced: **Grey -** Gray is the color of intellect, knowledge, and wisdom. It is perceived as long-lasting, classic, and often as sleek or refined. It is a color that is dignified, conservative, and carries authority. Gray is controlled and inconspicuous and is considered a color of compromise, perhaps because it sits between the extremes of black and white. Gray is a perfect neutral, which is why designers often use it as a background color. (All About the Color GRAY) **Gray area**: caught between two differing views

Fitzgerald chose to use this color to show the position Nick is in. Tom and Myrtle are having their affair, he's stuck with the McKnees an odd couple, and he also gets drunk for the secound time in his life he claims.

Time Period: Before the prohibition act was established, people would go off and get drunk and have parties. Everything was in act of the moment.


 * Marxist View :** In //The Great Gatsby,// the Valley of Ashes is a true sign of marxism. It is in this "valley" that the men work and shovel the ashes, making there skin and clothes turn grey. They are viewed as a lower "class" and when Tom and Nick enter the valley to see Myrtle, the clash happens. Tom and Myrtles affair is the clash between classes and is the sign of marxism in the story.


 * Feminist View : **

Smith, LCC, Katie. "All About the Color GRAY." //Sensational Color//. 2011. Web. 08 Apr. 2011. [].