Eyes In The Great Gatsby

Eyes Are The Window To The Soul (and the most important motif of The Great Gatsby)

F. Scott Fitzgerald married his ‘golden girl’ Zelda: the literal manifestation of Fitzgerald’s wildest dreams. Too early in their relationship, they found that Zelda suffered from Schizophrenia and was slowly losing to her own mind. Throughout this time, Fitzgerald learned how to communicate with his wife without the capacity of verbal communication. Fitzgerald’s hopes and dreams of being able to converse with his wife display themselves within his novel, “The Great Gatsby” as most of the character’s demonstrate their true intentions behind their eyes. As Fitzgerald uses the motif of eyes to demonstrate how sometimes one is better understood through what
Such as when the “Two Shining Arrogant eyes [of Tom Buchanan] established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning forward,” (fitz) the eyes of character, and known sleaze of the book,Tom buchanan demonstrate his inner-most personality, Fitzgerald expresses the characterization of his characters through their eyes as the predominant motif throughout “The Great Gatsby”. Fitzgerald does this to explain to the audience that although a character acts or talks a certain way, they are most likely hiding something in their subconscious, their true intentions, for example, how Tom hides his affair as well as any man can yet the people in his life, especially his wife, can sense the disturbance through his untrustworthy eyes. To reiterate, Fitzgerald uses this moment of describing character Tom Buchanan to give the reader an unsettling feeling about the man because of his unscrupulous eyes, explaining subtly that eyes are the true tellings of a person and their
through Daisy’s eyes,” (fitz) he relates to his cousin Daisy in a moment of obscure weakness, he finally understands how “invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of judgment.” (fitz) the truly morose nature of her lifestyle.The quote itself speaks levels on how seeing through another’s eyes can often lead to developing an understanding of that individual, not to mention how much eyes alone can equate. Fitzgerald does this to demonstrate that eyes truly show who a person really is, rather than what they suggest themselves what they may be, in his very own artistic way, of course.

In conclusion, As Fitzgerald has always exemplified through his timeless tales of the woes of the extravagant, He uses this opportunity of writing “The Great Gatsby” to express his impressions that eyes are the words kept one's tongue, but will never say- their real intent, if you will. Through his characters, Fitzgerald shows the reader this profound concept which is explained in the above content. From beginning to “the end of that holocaust”(fitz), the eyes hold conversations that the reader’s can only imagine, and that is Fitzgerald’s greatest accomplishment as well as most fervent