The Great Gatsby God Quotes

Pip, a low ranking sailor on board ship Pequod is introduced in the story as a minimal character until he is placed in a death-defying situation where he begins to express his indefiniteness of God. While on a smaller boat as an oarsman, Pip, who doesn't have the courage of whaling, decides to jump out of the boat leaving himself stranded at sea and causing the harpooned whale to escape. Moments later, the harpooners catch another whale, causing Pip to jump into the sea once again. Unfortunately, this time Pip is left stranded in the middle of the sea as Stubb and Tashtego continue pursuing the whale. After being stranded for a significant period of time, Pip is finally rescued by Pequod and is noticeably different, “He saw God's foot upon …show more content…
During his desertion, Pip saw many unexplainable workings from God. This passage clearly shows that the madness in which Pip was facing, can be seen as a gift from God. Pip is lost in the mystery and ungraspable explanation of life. To further explain Pip’s point of view of life, one can relate his philosophy of life to the story of The Blind Men and the Elephant, in this story a group of blind men are in a room, each feeling a certain part of the elephant with the goal of interpreting what they are feeling. Each one of the men begin to yell out there assumption and each of the men come to different conclusions, “And so these men of Indostan / Disputed loud and long, / Each in his own opinion / Exceeding stiff and strong, / Though each was partly in the right, / And all were in the wrong!” (Saxe). In this story, everyone captures a feel of this one elephant but feel different parts of it. Although they all blurt out different assumptions which can be assumed as inaccurate, they are still correct as to what they feel in a particular