The Great Gatsby
Some people may look at an object and see it as meaningless, like a cross for example. Another person may look at that same object and it may represent God or a higher power, again using the cross as an example. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, where a man by the name of Jay Gatsby reunites with his long lost love Daisy Buchanan, but she is married. He hopes to steal her back through wealth and charm, but his dream doesn’t come true. In this book, the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, the eyes of an optometrist on a billboard, represent the eyes of God. The eyes witness dishonesty and corruption, they see people’s lives crumble and eventually they see death. They see everything.
The eyes see the corruption of the lives
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Eckleburg as he and Tom drive into the city with Tom’s mistress, Myrtle. They are extremely large and deep, and they are constantly …show more content…
“Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg kept their vigil, but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away.” (pg, 124.) In this passage, Tom, Nick and Jordan get gas in the valley of ashes. Nick notices the vigilant eyes once again. He notices how the eyes just peer over the heaps of ash, just watching. But he does notice the sad, less powerful eyes of another person, almost watching sadly from hell. The eyes see the lives of Myrtle and George Wilson falling apart. He has locked her away because he believes she is cheating, and she is. The mood for this scene is very tense, Tom is upset because Gatsby is with Daisy, and Myrtle is upset because she see’s Jordan with Tom. But, no secrets are hidden from the eyes. The tone of Fitzgerald during this scene is very unhappy. Through the eyes you can see that Fitzgerald doesn’t agree with Tom’s choices or anyone’s choices