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Tom Buchanan introduces Nick to his mistress Myrtle from "The Great Gatsby". On a train to New York, Tom Buchanan forces Nick to get off at the Valley of Ashes, a desolate industrial wasteland.

a few days before the Fourth of July, 1922

Tom Buchanan introduces Nick to his mistress Myrtle

On a train to New York, Tom Buchanan forces Nick to get off at the Valley of Ashes, a desolate industrial wasteland. He takes Nick to George Wilson's garage, where Tom's mistress Myrtle Wilson lives with her husband. Tom and Myrtle arrange to meet in New York, and Nick accompanies them. The Valley of Ashes, with the looming eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, becomes a key symbolic landscape.