What Does George Wilson Represent In The Great Gatsby

One of the more important symbols was where Jay Gatsby and George Wilson lived, and how it symbolized their dreams. The difference between living in East Egg and West Egg. The simple difference was that if you lived in East Egg you were already wealthy, powerful and had the American Dream in your hands. But those who lived in West Egg were trying to get wealthy, powerful and the American Dream. Gatsby who could afford an estate in East Egg chose to buy an estate in West Egg so he could be near Daisy. When you read the book you understand that Gatsby's dream was not to be wealthy and powerful, his dream was to be together with his lost love Daisy, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay”. George Wilson on the otherhand he

They were apparently (after a quick research) a part of an old advertisement that was abandoned, but was an crucial symbol. The eyes of Doctor T.J Eckleburg are compared with a god-like figure that was always watching over everybody in the “valley of ashes”. The valley represents people who lost their dreams. George had lived there for over “eleven years” with his “faithful” wife, Myrtle. He never had been able to achieve his dreams and he never would, he was stuck in the valley. During a conversation between George and Michaelis, he refers back to an argument he and Myrtle had previously, “You may fool me, but you can’t fool god!”. Standing behind him, Michaelis then with a shock saw the eyes of Doctor T.J Eckleburg. Also when Daisy and Gatsby ran over Myrtle with Gatsby’s car, “her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust” the eyes of Doctor T.J Eckleburg were watching. This is symbolic because it represents how Gatsby’s dream was ruined and destroyed. The accident would also lead to Gatsby’s death later on. Now you maybe can comprehend why this was a quite important symbol to develop both