The Great Gatsby
Who is god to george wilson
Chapter 8
Chapter 8
George uses the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg as a metaphor for God watching everything.
with an effort he got up and walked to the rear window and leaned with his face pressed against it – "and I said ‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!’"
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.