Chapter two describes the Valley of Ashes. Everything is gray-no color and no real form. The billboard of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg is shapeless as well. He is just eyes, no nose or face to accompany them. This chapter is meant to illustrate the wasteland of industrialism.
By contrast, chapter three has numerous color images, vibrantly described, with rich hues. Cars and eye symbols still continue, but the descriptions are vivid rather than gray. There are a lot of descriptions using the color yellow, which is a sharp contrast to the bland gray of chapter two.
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