Nick is taking the train into New York City with Tom Buchanan. He begins the chapter by describing an area he calls a valley of ashes. It is an area where ashes from coal burning furnaces are deposited. Everything is gray and lifeless, even the people who work and live in the area.
Answer:
The allusion to Midas reveals the differences of ages between the Chaperon and Midas.
Explanation:
Third stanza:
"They bow as my young Midas here (emphasys on the young)
Will never learn to bow
(The dancing-masters do not teach
That gracious reverence now)(...)"; (Such things aren't taught to the young anymore)
The contrast between their ages is clearer during the fourth stanza:
"I watch my chaperon's face,
And see the dear old features take (the chaperon is old)
A new and tender grace;
And in her happy eyes I see
Her youth awakening bright,
With all its hope, desire, delight--
Ah, me! I wish that I were quite
As young--as young as she!" (I wish I were as young as she)
I'm gonna be the way I am until I die if you don't like it die first b***h
- cardi b
