Ramneet Ubbi Analysis

Textual Intervention – Ramneet Ubbi

This textual intervention is taken place when Wilson arrives to meet Myrtle and leave Wilson alone. The intention is to refer to the American Dream in a lower-socioeconomic area.

Wilson bathed in the thin layer of dust that concealed a small Ford. It was crouched down begging for mercy in its operation. His skin was grey as if no sunlight had ever managed to pierce through his garage and onto him. Melting like ash. A tiny, shattered glass forged a reflection of himself – the sick man. A debilitating disease of desire had consumed him, a credulous fool stood there in its emptiness. He saw a thirty-something man had worn his sickness so threadbare that it evoked a decade of loneliness and thinning hair. His establishment had a large window with a view of Queens. It pictured the ashes that grew into wheat and grotesque gardens, there were tiny ash-grey men who
He progressed towards the entrance, his thoughts and time became like liquid. Slowly melting, he led himself outside, and gazed at his establishment. It was one of the three contiguous buildings, which looked like a product of commercial pollution. The ash became contagious, a thick impervious layer settled on the roof, which somehow resembled Wilson’s skin. He restlessly sat on the very edge of a seat, he had his chin resting on his arms looking up to the eyes of Dr T.J. Eckleburg. He tilted his head closer to the billboard, exposing his thin face to a small portion of sunlight. The warmth enlivened him, it dissolved him. With peculiar intensity, it drew him closer. He whispered words that he knew would speak of his delusions, ‘God sees everything…’. He could recall his wife in the past telling him, he was a ‘fool for believing that, it’s an advertisement’. But he didn’t care. He outstared the eyes, nodding into it. And his thin, purple lips repeated it again, ‘God sees