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Myrtle and Tom Wilson live in The Valley of The Ashes. 'Dr T J Eckleberg' is also found here too - although the Occulist is an advertisement, symbolising a capitalist society.

Scott Fitzgerald references 'ash grey men' - however, these are not given identities.

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