Metaphors Chapter 2

  1. "valley of ashes"
  2. "fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat"
  3. "grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys"
  4. "men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air"
  5. "ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades"
  6. "impenetrable cloud"
  7. "solemn dumping ground"
  8. "persistent stare"
  9. "shadow of a garage"
  10. "a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes"
  11. "mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls"
  12. "a white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair"
  13. "grey, scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row"
  14. "exchanging a frown with Doctor Eckleburg"
  15. "a great flock of white sheep turn the corner"
  16. "one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses"
  17. "stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles"
  18. "the hen resolved itself into a bonnet"
  19. "a tin of large hard dog biscuits—one of which decomposed apathetically in the saucer of milk"
  20. "the apartment was full of cheerful sun"
  21. "a solid sticky bob of red hair"
  22. "the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face"
  23. "an incessant clicking as innumerable pottery bracelets jingled up and down upon her arms"
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