The Great Gatsby
In Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby, what is the Valley of Ashes?
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Beside the highway leading to the Brooklyn Bridge that connects Long Island with Manhattan, there is a "valley of ashes", the source of which is never clear but which symbolically evoke a sense of decay, destruction, and death.
The Great Gatsby