... 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 after Myrtle's death Wilson reveals he had taken his wife to the window just before she died and told her, "God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me but you ... the ultimate judge of 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 r...

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... the novel. Tom and Daisy ARE money: " and then drifted here and 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 ... is not that of the superficial gloss of the "Jazz Age" but of a moral and spiritual wasteland symbolised by the "valley of ashes" surveyed "by the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckelburg" like some enormous impotent god...

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