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