1. 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. (What is the grammatical rationale?)
2. “About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily … But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.” (What is the purpose of this paragraph?)
3. “The fact that he had one was insisted upon wherever he was known.” (What does “one” refer here?)
