From the movie version yes. well I mean one of the movie versions. there are a couple. BUT anyway so you aren't familiar with the imagery or motifs in the novel right? There's an important visual symbol that represents God and the death of the American dream through the eyes on a billboard of a fictional doctor named T.J. Eckleburg. The billboard's worn out and desolate and hollow as is the dream but it's ALWAYS there watching the protagonists. It represents how materialism has taken over society and therefore classism as well since Gatsby himself is a self-made man trying to make it in a world of rich people. The eyes of God can only look out over the city from a billboard meaning even God's had to co-opt the materialist mindset to reach the world even if the one he's looking out at is bleak and dreary in the guise of a rich party life. That's not to completely shun materialism. Just to try and address problems of society and the way it functions especially the upper-class compared to the others!
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well I mean one of the movie versions.
there are a couple.
BUT anyway so you aren't familiar with the imagery or motifs in the novel right?
There's an important visual symbol that represents God and the death of the American dream through the eyes on a billboard of a fictional doctor named T.J. Eckleburg.
The billboard's worn out and desolate and hollow as is the dream but it's ALWAYS there watching the protagonists.
It represents how materialism has taken over society and therefore classism as well since Gatsby himself is a self-made man trying to make it in a world of rich people.
The eyes of God can only look out over the city from a billboard meaning even God's had to co-opt the materialist mindset to reach the world even if the one he's looking out at is bleak and dreary in the guise of a rich party life.
That's not to completely shun materialism. Just to try and address problems of society and the way it functions especially the upper-class compared to the others!