What Does God Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

In the book“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are four symbolic representations. One of the symbols was a pair of eyes with no face with yellow glasses that represented God in the novel. The symbol only occurred in the novel when something awful took place. The reason I picked The Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg is because it stood out more to me than any other symbol feature in the novel “The Great Gatsby”.
The pair of eyes represented God throughout the story. The eyes were painted on a old billboard above the Valley of Ashes. "The Eyes of Dr 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 nonexistent nose" (page 27) chapter two . The Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg represented God staring down, judging the society as a moral wasteland involved in the faded billboard of an oculist.

T.J. Eckleberg was featured throughout the novel The Great Gatsby occurring during awful scenes. Chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby, George Wilson said “you may fool me but you can’t fool God” because Myrtle Wilson was having an affair. You notice that the billboard was in the scene when this event took place. In chapter six “Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg kept their vigil but I perceived” page 131 meaning whenever something bad happens, the eyes are watching. Another part of the story when the eyes were introduced in chapter eight page 167-168 “standing behind 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”chapter eight page 167-168. The sign was there for the poor to believe in a dream poor versus the