The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg represent a major symbol throughout the story? Consider the symbol and their its on the characters.
- The eyes on the billboard in the land of the ashes are a huge symbol throughout the entire story as they represent the eyes of god watching over all of the characters as they commit their sins. This is especially present when Daisy runs over Myrtle right before the poster. When the reader later sees Wilson in his office pacing back and forth all night after his wife was just brutally murdered he begins to stare at the eyes. Then he looks back to his friend and says, ” I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God…God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing.” This is a very important scene in these last few chapters because it expresses the impact and torment that the eyes have on the characters in the story. The characters sometimes feel hopeless because they feel that they can’t control everything or they don’t know the truth but, these eyes that taunt them constantly have only seen the truth and nothing but the truth.
Why did Nick say to Gatsby, “They’re a rotten crowd…You’re worth the whole damn bunch.”? And what was its impact?
- This is a very important quote in the eighth chapter because it is the last that Nick will ever speak to Gatsby and it is the only compliment that he has ever given him. This compliment is the most kind and resolving one he could have ever given him. This is because all Gatsby ever tired to do was show Daisy and Tom that he was of the same stature as the were, but they never really accepted him. Nick tells him here that he is far better that any of them ever where with or without their wealth. Now after this quote Gatsby could die a man at peace knowing that he at least had one true friend, also knowing now that he was always too good fro Daisy anyhow. Nick is extremely thankful that he said this to Gatsby because he felt that Gatsby deserved his happy ending even if it didn’t include Daisy.
What is the significance of the man with owl-eyed glasses and how he is the only other person to come to Gatsby’s funeral?
- The owl-eyed glasses man is extremely significant in the fact that he represents the poster with the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg there at the funeral watching over Gatsby and taking in count that Daisy never showed. It was extremely significant that there was only Nick, Gatsby’s father, and the owl-eyed glasses man at the funeral because it expressed where Daisy’s alliance and heart stood. It was extremely apparent in these last few chapters how selfish and childish Daisy actually is, she truly was a “careless person”. God was watching over that day at the funeral and was taking names, many people only acted as friends with Gatsby face to face, but when the time came that he needed the so called “friends” no one responded. It is apparent at the end of the story that the only person who really cared fro him besides his family was Nick Carraway.
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