The next chapter of The Great Gatsby is a melancholy romp through Tom Buchanan's torrid little affair with Mrs. Myrtle Wilson. The chapter begins with a journey through what Nick calls the Valley of Ashes, a quaint landscape of railroad track, colorless streets and smoke-filled chimneys. This gray, squalor-filled tableau is overlooked by the huge yellow spectacles created to promote the business of a long-vanished Dr. Eckleburg, whose gigantic blue eyes survey this grim scene of ash-laden fields and gray men whose identities dissolve, as well, in to the ashen gray of everything else.
Nick has followed Tom into disgruntled place after Tom impulsively dislodged him from his train seat. Tom has decided it is now time for him to meet "his girl." His girl, the somewhat chubby, but still intriguing, Mrs. Myrtle Wilson,.....
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