The document analyzes how Fitzgerald and Baz Luhrmann suggest that the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg seen on a billboard are actually representations of Gatsby in the novel and film versions of The Great Gatsby. Several quotes from the novel are presented that describe the eyes watching over the area or Gatsby specifically. Excerpts from Luhrmann's film are referenced showing how the eyes follow Gatsby. The analysis suggests the eyes symbolize Gatsby's omnipresence and watch over the events of the story.

1. THE GREAT GATSBY
Jeah Monreal

2. QUESTION
In what ways do Fitzgerald and Baz
Luhrmann suggest that the eyes of Doctor
T.J. Eckleburg are in reality, Gatsby‘s?

3. THE HOLY TRINITY

4. QUOTATIONS FROM THE GREAT
GATSBY
• ―So I walked away and left him standing there in the
moonlight– watching over nothing‖ (Fitzgerald 145).
• ―The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and
gigantic—their retinas are one yard high. They look
out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous
yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent
nose‖ (Fitzgerald 23).

5. FILM EXCERPT FROM THE
GREAT GATSBY

6. FILM EXCERPT FROM THE
GREAT GATSBY

7. QUOTATIONS FROM THE GREAT
GATSBY
• ―He was a son of God– a phrase which, if it means
anything, means just that– and he must be about His
Father‘s business‖ (Fitzgerald 98).
• ―Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock
that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T.J.
Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and
enormous, from the dissolving night. ‗God sees
everything‘, repeated Wilson‖ (Fitzgerald 160-161).

8. QUOTATIONS FROM THE GREAT
GATSBY
• ―Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T.J.
Eckleburg kept their vigil, but I perceived, after a
moment, that other eyes were regarding us with
peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away‖
(Fitzgerald 124).
• ―Gatsby shouldered the mattress and started for the
pool‖ (Fitzgerald 160).

9. FILM EXCERPT FROM THE
GREAT GATSBY

10. FILM EXCERPT FROM THE
GREAT GATSBY