"But above the great land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment ,the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg. The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic- their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens and they sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground." (Page 28)
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I feel like the passage you used as a poem was more of a description than an actual "meaning behind the text", but maybe this poem means something to you, if so what do you interpret from this?
ReplyDeleteI actually tried to find why this passage was put into the book and why it was relevant to the scenery, I know ash village or whichever is very drab, it talks of nothing but gray colors. This passage was put in after, with a bit more color and I pondered why so?
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