This billboard represents the eyes of God looking out over the vast wasteland of moral corruption and dying hope. They look from no face but, instead from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose(Fitzgerald 27). The are blue and gigantic- their retinas are one yard high.
Eckleburg on it: Above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. Another symbol in this book is the big billboard with the eyes of Dr. It is also the car that Gatsby buys to impress Daisy and that hits Myrtle Wilson, eventually leading to Gatsbys death. It symbolizes the irresponsibility of society and the differences between the old rich and the classlessness of the new rich. His car is very elaborate, It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns(Fitzgerald 68). Gatsbys car represents many problems in the society at that time. Gatsby has a car that is an important symbol in this novel. J.Įckleburg, and Gatsby stretching his arms out towards the green light across the bay. Scott Fitzgerald through the use of symbolism, such as Gatsbys car, the eyes of Doctor T. The corruption of Gatsbys dream and his struggle to attain his dream are shown by F. Unfortunately, he doesnt really go about it the right way he takes part in some illegal activities with some quite sinister characters, such as Meyer Wolfshiem. He fights to get his dream woman and to do so, he must first become rich. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby is about a man named Gatsby and his struggle to attain the American Dream in 1920s Long Island.