Реферат: The Great Gatsby Essay Research Paper The 2

from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-

existent nose.” (23) The eyes of T. J. Eckleburg are said to represent

the eyes of God at one point. His eyes make Wilson, the husband

ofTom’s mistress, kill himself because he thinks that God is actually

looking at him in shame for murdering Gatsby. When in the valley of

ashes, the eyes of the doctor are also like the eyes of God, though it

is not stated. T. J. stands on a hill looking over the occurrences in

the valley. Like God, he is watching over the waste created by the

spiritless society, and then later on his eyes represent God to a man

who was wasted by society; a resident of the spiritless wasteland of

society.

Yet another symbol in The Great Gatsby is the green light on

the end of the Buchanan dock. This light represents hope and dreams to

Gatsby. It represents his love for Daisy and his need for a companion,

or in Nick’s words, “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water

in a curious way….Involuntarily, I glanced seaward- and

distinguished nothing except a single green light…that might have

been the end of a dock.” If Gatsby had lived in the nineties, he

would have a telescope looking directly into Daisy’s bedroom, he would

be considered a stalker, and Daisy would bring up sexual harrassment

suits on him. But, in this time, Daisy did not know, and what Daisy

did not know could not hurt her. “Compared to the great distance that

had separated him from Daisy [the green light] had seemed very near to

her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the

moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted

objects had diminished by one.” When, at last, Gatsby believes that

Daisy is his, he no longer idolizes her, and the green light has no

more symbolic meaning to him. Is like the saying, “You always want

what you can’t have.”