F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby "At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with
several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to
make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden. On buffet
tables, garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked
hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry
pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar
with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and
liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female
guests were too young to know one from the other."
"If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay."
said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns all night
at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly
but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had
occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had
now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had
separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost
touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now
it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted
objects had diminished by one...
"It was all very careless and confused. They were careless
people. Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures
and then retreated back into their money or their vast
carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let
other people clean up the mess they had made."
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 crawis 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."
QUESTION ALONED STANDARD

What characteristic of Lost Generation writing are present in this
excerpt? Cite evidence from the reading to support your answer.