1. The Valley of Ashes is the farm land or almost like a wasteland filled with ashes that separates the wealth of the East and West Egg Village.
2. “The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic — their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose” (Fitzgerald 23). Based n this quote the “eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg” are most likely a sign or billboard of a pair of blue eyes like the ones on the cover of the book. “…some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away” (24). The author is telling the reader that
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Mrs. And Mrs. McKee are friends of Mrs. Wilson who live in the flat below. Mr. McKee is a pale faced photographer. He carries himself very respectfully unlike is wife who is high-pitched, horrid, yet put together looking.
15. Myrtle’s changing in wardrobe symbolizes her shaky and fluid place in society. She doesn’t one-hundred percent fit in anywhere. She is married to a low class man yet is a mistress to a rich man with a high class reputation that was once a well-known and notorious football player. She switches between classes just like she switches her outfits.
16. Myrtle behaves in such a superior manner towards her husband and in the city apartment because she wants to fell that holds a high class role. She wants to feel that she belongs to a high place in society because she did not marry into it. She acts superior to feel superior while she repeatedly changes her outfits to a more lavish than the last.
17. The rumor that Catherine shares with Nick about Gatsby is that Gatsby is a cousin or a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm’s so that would explain where all his money comes from.
18. Myrtle explains that she married Mr. Wilson because she believed that he was a gentleman and was fit for raising a family with her. “…but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe” (34). From this quote Myrtle makes it clear that Myrtle now feels that Mr. Wilson is beneath