The Eyes Of T J Eckleburg Symbolism

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Men do so many things that women may not know but God knows what everyone does. What might “The Eyes of T.J Eckleburg” represent? Well it represents that God can see everything. There are so many values in the world that people can see. For instance, Nick Carraway never said anything about what he saw.What Nick did was sort of wrong because so many things could’ve been avoided during this time and nothing bad would’ve happened. Nick probably just didn’t want to get into problems and wanted to just let the others figure out the situation.Even so, God saw what everyone did but the characters chose to do wrong. Tom cheated on Daisy with Myrtle and he didn’t see the consequences until Myrtle died and had to be back with Daisy. As well as Daisy,

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