The Great Gatsby
The gatsby of the great(Aka the great gatsby)
About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. This is a valley of ashes — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.
-what is the effect of the simile in the second sentence? Why would Fitzgerald choose this particular thing with which to compare the ashes?
-what is the effect of the polysyndeton?
can you please help me with this I honestly don't know it and it's frustrating me