... there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together. ( p.12) "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed things up and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." (p.186) Even for Myrtle it is the acquisition ... Doctor T. J. Eckelburg" like some enormous impotent god: "But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground." (p.29) It is entirely fitting that they are...

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... eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckelburg are seen on a billboard advertisement in the ash-heaps around the house and garage of George Wilson. These gigantic blue eyes without a face look out at the valley of ashes from behind a pair of yellow eyeglasses. This billboard advertisement takes on an added significance in Chapter 8. A grief-stricken George Wilson refers to it as God. While looking at the giant eyes ... morality. The desolation of the area where this billboard is located is seen in Fitzgerald's use of the billboard. Thus, God is watching over the land which once was paradise, but now has been...

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