Nick Carraway's Use Of Materialism In The Great Gatsby

The wasteland is presents a more accurate portrayal of the poem in the movie or the book? Is more accurately portrayed in the book and this is why.

The valley of ashes is symbolic of the lives of material and spiritual waste characteristic of many on the East Coast. Much like his narrator Nick Carraway. Fitzgerald found the affluent Easterners in their love of materialism in the setting of 1922. The valley of ashes is a virtual wasteland of the industrial products produced in and for New York City. the poem from T. S. Eliot. The valley of ashes is a location that is described first in Chapter II and is also the location where the Wilsons live who are shown to live a very different kind of life from the kind of lives that Daisy and Tom

In fact Nick has high morality and decency while others do not. For example, "I was one of few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited-they went there." (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 43) Majority went there without an invitation. It shows those people have low morality and are dishonest. This is not only said in the book but also in the movie. the more dishonest of those guests are the more reliable the narrator can be. also, Nick says "I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 60) It is surely the truth. First, he does not know many people because he is new in New York City. This fact which narrows down the number of the people he knows so that it makes the comparison of honesty between the narrator and others more clearly and easily. His depictions of these people are honest because he reserves all the judgments and describes characters' true color, like Daisy's selfish and careless killed Myrtle and also indirectly killed Gatsby. He does use his honest mindset to genuinely document each scene happening in the book in order to treat readers rather than affects their judgments. Nick is like a bystander that can tell you what happened perfectly mostly because he tell and talks about how people are told in their true selves for example tom breaks myrtle's nose after she says daisy a few times. He also talks about jay’s illegal bootlegging job and daisy's afar will gatsby. Tom Buchanan is cheating on Daisy Buchanan rather than judges how immoral Tom is. It can also be proved by him using Jordan's perspective of being a bridesmaid at Daisy's wedding. It gives a slightly deeper and different view not only into the relation that Gatsby and Daisy's past relationship but also what kind of person Daisy is. Compared with telling all the "truth"