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noun

  • A desolate, industrial wasteland in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, located between West Egg and New York City, symbolizing the grim reality, moral decay, and social destitution that underpins the glamorous lifestyles of the wealthy.

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Eckleburg on a billboard watch over the Valley of Ashes but have no vision.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023

Most of the pilings have already been sunk, clusters of 20 to 25 concrete-filled steel tubes, driven between 120 and 180 feet deep into the marshy Valley of Ashes.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2014

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  • a forgotten place
  • the wrong side of the tracks
  • industrial dump
  • urban blight
  • the American dream's graveyard

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  • the lap of luxury
  • an idyllic retreat
  • a gilded city
  • West Egg

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