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The Great Gatsby The Use of Imagery www.wessexpublications.co.uk - 88 - • Money is the new God in this text. However, there is an acknowledgement that the old God still looks down over the inhabitants of the Eggs from the eyes of T.J.Eckleberg in the Valley of Ashes. ‘God knows what you’ve been doing . . . you can’t fool God . . . God sees everything’, Wilson repeats, before Michaelis reassures him with the cool voice of capitalism, ‘That’s just an advertisement.’ Colour Daisy is associated with white, the colour of the dress in which we first see her, and silver, representing her wealth. She drives a ‘white roadster’ and is described as ‘gleaming like silver’. • White represents her emptiness, silver her wealth and sophistry. • Remember that silver tarnishes and white is easily sullied. Gatsby is associated with green, as in the green light at the end of the dock. Eyes: • Green is often associated with fertility, fecundity. • In Christian iconography, it is also associated with hope of eternal life. • Vision and the idea of faulty vision crop up many times in this text, maybe as a reminder of the moral blindness of the inhabitants of the Eggs and the Valley of Ashes. • Think of Owl Eyes, in the library at Gatsby’s party who, ironically despite being short sighted, can see the true nature of Gatsby more clearly than anyone else at this stage as he compares him to Belasco, a theatre director who tried to make his performances as realistic as possible. This imagines Gatsby orchestrating his life and affairs as a huge production to cast him in the best light – a very perceptive interpretation. It is this same character who is to be found at the end of the night with his car down a ditch, where it has ended up when he claims to be not ‘even trying’ to drive it responsibly. He finally reveals that it was not him driving – a case of mistaken identity (another bit of faulty vision) that sets the scene for the second, more tragic, accident in the text when Myrtle Wilson is killed and it is presumed that Gatsby was driving the car.
The Great Gatsby The Use of Imagery www.wessexpublications.co.uk - 89 - • The eyes of T.J.Eckleberg have already been mentioned in connection with God and religion. The references to drunken incidents such as the party at Myrtle’s and the later one at Gatsby’s radiate confusion and faulty vision as a result of too much drink. It appears that the whole of this society is suffering from the effects of faulty vision, implying a wide spread immorality and a failure to distinguish the truth.
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