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Faded Eyes In The Great Gatsby

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It’s all in the Eyes
There has always been an idea that the eyes of someone are watching you, and though this idea is displayed physically in the Valley of Ashes, the idea that your actions are being seen has faded greatly. The “blue and gigantic” eyes of Dr. T.J Eckleburg are displayed in the Valley of Ashes, as a physical thing, and at face value they are just that.(23) Whenever the eyes are mentioned they are hidden beneath “the grey land and the spans of bleak dust” or as “faded eyes”. (23) (122) The characters in the Great Gatsby treat life in the same manner they acknowledge the eyes of Dr. T.J Eckleburg. They act as if no one around them, nor God, is watching them. They live life by their own standards, hiding from the reality that someone
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