Sometimes, there’s more to Lit than meets the eye.
An owl-eyed man at a Gatsby party sits in awe in the library, murmuring with amazement that all the books on Gatsby’s shelves are "real books." But does Gatsby even read them? The image works...
Speaking of those books, what’s up with that guy in the library? We almost listed the owl-eyed man as a character, but then we realized we know absolutely nothing about him. Even Nick reduces...
The first time we see the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg, the image is intertwined with Nick’s description of the valley of ashes. The ashes are, as ashes tend to be, "desolate" and "grotesque." Nick...
The green light on Daisy’s house that Gatsby gazes wistfully at from his own house across the water represents the "unattainable dream." But the green light also represents the hazy future, t...
Sometimes we sound like art snobs when we talk about The Great Gatsby ("Look at the use of green! Such marvelous blues," and so forth). Honestly, it seems like there’s a little too much color...
