The Great Gatsby : Sight
Sight is such an important sense to our everyday livings; not only to how we survive, but how we judge; the fronts we are meant to see, and the realities we are not. To see is to know the absolute truth, but to missee is to have the allusion of truth, which would eventually prove itself to be merely a cloudy facade. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel entitled The Great Gatsby, it is this seeing and misseeing which is the crucial factor in making and breaking the characters of its tragic story. In this novel, Fitzgerald uses many metaphorical occurrences of sight to show how corrupt and superficial the lives and actions of the characters, mainly Gatsby, truly was. Gatsby's pathetic life is reflected in his gaudy house. His house is a key symbol of aspiration reflecting both Gatsby's success as an American self-made man and the mirage of an identity he has created to win Daisy's love. Gatsby follows his American Dream as he buys the house (with it's extravagant accessories) to be acr
His single-mindedness was born when Gatsby admits after that kiss he "forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of god (117)". Thus, this abandoned billboard serves as not only the provider of consolation for Wilson, but also the ultimate judge of morality for all the characters of the story. Yet, Owl Eyes compares Gatsby's mansion to a house of cards, muttering, "that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse (50). " Ultimately, the inevitable collapse occurs, as Gatsby loses Daisy and dies, basically friendless, prompting Nick to refer to the Gatsby mansion as "that huge incoherent failure of a house (188)". oss the bay from Daisy, and has parties to gain widespread recognition in order to impress her. These gigantic blue eyes without a face provide an eternal presence which looms above the ash-heaps of corruption and dirty truths. In a seemingly unimportant rant by the grief stricken Wilson, his calling of the eyes as God is no mistake. After the 5 long years when neither had seen eachother, Gatsby still dwelled on the incomplete, fantasy of love, which was more a dream than reality. Through this all, there is one that remains omniscient and untainted other than Nick. Thought through his devotion to Daisy, he has unintentionally created an ideal for Daisy to live up to, so much so that it leads Nick (the only character which sees all untaintedly) to say "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams- not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of hi illusion (101)".
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