Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Great Gatsby discussion response

During the discussion on Tuesday one of the themes was God / religion. During this time we talk about how some of the people in The Great Gatsby viewed who they thought was their God. We talked about how Gatsby thought that he was his own God, TJ Eckleburg thinks that advertising is his own God, and that Owl eyes believes that god is clueless. While looking at these views from Gatsby, TJ, and Owl eyes we can see that each of them have definite different views. But overall these views after looking at the book, they are all correct, Gatsby believes that just because he has money he is all powerful, TJ uses his advertisement to make sure people go only to him for glasses, and Owl eyes being clueless doesn’t have any idea of what God should be.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Careful here, Owl Eyes doesn't believe God is clueless. Owl Eyes represents a clueless god.