To begin, the loss of values take a big hit to everyone in the roaring twenties financially and morally. F. Scott Fitzgerald used his narrator, Nick Carraway, as a way for him …show more content…
In the novel, it stated that as the main characters pass through the valley of ashes and underneath the billboard; the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg stare down upon them. Tom Buchanan carries out an affair with Myrtle wife of George. George finds out about the affair and yells “god knows what you’re doing, everything you’re doing. You may fool me buy you can’t fool God.” (Fitzgeral 7) It is in this scene the reader is able to see George reference the eyes on the billboard as God. The eyes are seen as a form of judgement and it watches over the dirtiest and most corrupted area. They represent the observation of lies and adultery going on in the novel; also the most violent scene in the book. This is a novel that fully exposes all of the corruption or morals, conflicts between love and money and the flawed characters that contribute to their own deaths. The point of view everyone has with the billboard that they new big eyes looking through glasses with no facial features or anything at all. It represents god in their point of view because no one can put a face on god. The novel references that the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg are watching, and so are the eyes of god. God is always watching over everyone and everything at anytime of the