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.
This reminds me of the Hogwarts dining hall and how it's always filled with so many different foods and never fails to satisfy anyone's hunger no matter what they're craving. https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/8/83/1995_Welcoming_feast_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140717165252
but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe.
This phrase reminds me of something that Blair Waldorf (from Gossip Girl) would say to Dan Humphrey because he lives on the lower East side and is the equivalent of Mr.Wilson. Blair, being an upper east side girl feels Dan is unfit to even talk to her because he's from the lower side.
Beauty and the Beast
This reminds me of my favorite Disney princess movie. This movie taught me that true love looks past just pure looks and falls in love with a soul and not a face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRlzmyveDHE
Taking out my handkerchief I wiped from his cheek the remains of the spot of dried lather that had worried me all the afternoon.
This reminds me of the movie "Split" which is a story about a man with split personality disorder and one of his personalities is an OCD man who has the need to clean and keep everything clean.
"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,"
This reminds me of Queen Elizabeth II from the TV show "The Crown" and how she thought that he had married a good man, which he was to and extent. But he also took part in scandalous parties which the husband of a Queen should not be attending and also had a brief affair. https://lovelace-media.imgix.net/uploads/1163/8c7ef630-81c7-0134-18ca-060e3e89e053.jpg
She told me with pride that her husband had photographed her a hundred and twenty-seven times since they had been married.
This reminds me of the relationship between Princess Margaret and her husband from the TV show "The Crown" and how their relationship started through photography, like this couple. Her husband was her photographer initially.
Mr. McKee was a pale, feminine man
The description of a feminine man reminds me of the inhabitants of the Capitol in the Hunger Games. The people of the capitol and even men, wear feathers, glitter and sculpt their facial features to look more feminine, like the thinner eyebrows and use eyeliner to accentuate their eyes. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a4/43/28/a44328801c1b1fbb186ef0fecd23196c.jpg
"I want to get one of those dogs," she said earnestly. "I want to get one for the apartment. They're nice to have--a dog."
This sentence shows how much Mrs.Wilson desires materialistic things and basically defines her affair with Tom. She may also be physically attracted to him, but admires his status more. This reminded me off Ramilda Vane in Harry Potter and how she wanted him to fall in love with her because he was the "Chosen One" and that celebrated social title.
The interior was unprosperous and bare;
I think that Fitzgerald describes the garage as unprosperous and bare and uses that to indirectly relate that to Wilson's personality as well. He can be seen as unprosperous because he lives in a land of ashes and because he is a very simple man he can be seen as bare and boring.
The valley of ashes
"The valley of ashes" reminds me of no man's land during World War One. This shows symbolizes the distance and growing gap which also decreasing the understanding between the two armies. This is also similar to the differences between the West Egg and East Egg and how there will always be a gap in between due to the growing social backgrounds. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/No-man%27s-land-flanders-field.jpg/660px-No-man%27s-land-flanders-field.jpg
pair of enormous yellow spectacles
By including the detail that Doctor T. J. Eckleburg wears glasses, this indicates that he has wisdom and insight that no one else in the the novel had. In stories, for example like Harry Potter, Dumbledore is described as having glasses which indicates to the author that he holds a very high level of thought unlike many others. https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-d2821ec709be9004ec0ab2520831f212-c