The Valley

The Valley of Ashes is a place of hopelessness. It is bleak and gray..... dead. The people who live there "move dimly", they are "crumbling".

This is a valley of ashes — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.