Great Gatsby
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"The eyes of Doctor T J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic...they look out of no face, but instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles" (27)
In the vast wasteland of the Valley of Ashes stands a solitary landmark: a billboard with an advertisement for an optometrist. Fitzgerald chose these huge, flat, empty eyes to symbolize a dead God staring blindly out at the moral decay of humanity and the meaningless garbage that our lives have become. The fact that Fitzgerald chose to represent God by a lifeless pair of eyes shows his belief that we no longer have a belief in God--that He is lifeless.
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