When I think of the element of blindness throughout the novel, I think of blind ambition. Which is what most of the characters have throughout the novel. Most of the time, the blindness goes untreated. For an example, George Wilson's blindness of his wife's affair goes untreated while she is alive. Wilson does not really confront Myrtle about the affair she had for awhile with Tom, thus being blind from the situation. Based on this, we see how to blindness is untreated. The seeing part of the theme throughout the novel is represented by eyes being everywhere. The eyes can be a symbol God watching. To elaborate, Wilson says in the novel "God knows what you've been doing.....", while looking in the eyes of Doctor T.J Eckleburg (Fitzgerald). This
