A book I was reading mentioned “valley of ashes” but didn’t really explain it. What is it?
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The “valley of ashes” is basically a wasteland. It was first introduced in the second chapter of American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel entitled “The Great Gatsby.”
The valley of ashes is a depressing industrial narrow area located in between New York City and the resort villages of East and West Egg on the North Shore of Long Island. It is where the poverty-stricken and underprivileged live. It’s called the “valley of ashes” because all the smoke from the industrial dumping made it look like it’s a “valley of ashes.”
It represents the moral decay hidden in the beautiful facades of both East and West Egg and is a by-product of capitalism.