F. Scott Fitzgerald uses double vision throughout the book, The Great Gatsby. An example of this is shown when Nick leaves Gatsby to go to work on page 154. After Daisy had proclaimed her love for both Tom and Jay, Jay still wanted to protect her, and was still hoping for Daisy to call him. He is so blinded by this love that he will do anything to be with her. The reader is drawn into this emotional attachment to Daisy and hopes that the relationship will work out. But, we see through Nick's point of view that Gatsby should move on from her, when he says, "They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." With Nick's point of view, the reader is then able to criticize the relationship, creating the 'double vision'.
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