Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that illustrates American Culture in the 1920's. ... Fitzgerald uses the " Valley of Ashes" to portray, the corruptiveness of wealth, it leads to a life of materialism and purposeless spending and ends in, the ugliness of the "Valley of Ashes", a symbol of wasted life and wasted land. ... Fitzgerald ultimately wants to display the "foul dust" or the carelessness of American societyin the 1920's in the pursuit of wealth and indulging themselves even if it meant destroying land and even people. ...

• Word Count: 453
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Materialism has corrupted the citizens of East and West Egg because they center everything on money. ... However, the most important colour in this book, green, "is the colour" of hope and the American dream Gatsby hopes to attain with money. ...

• Word Count: 550
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School