There are numerous symbols and metaphors in the novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald is skilled in giving seemingly the usual natural things more special connotation. For example, ashes over the valley lingering all the time allude to the spiritual aridity and barrenness of the people in eastern society, like the waste land described by T. S. Eliot, lifeless. Books should be spiritual food, however, the fine books that are not cut the sheet has become luxury residential decorations in the fiction. The
