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The Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg in The Great Gatsby
"The locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon and how I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind. Over the ash heaps the giant eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg kept their vigil but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away" (page 131). The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby are revealed throughout several parts of the novel, performing different actions each time. "The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg are blue and gigantic fading, bespectacled eyes with retinas one yard high. They look out of no face but, instead from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose. But his eyes on an old billboard watching over the valley...
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