From Pages 133-139

"The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg kept their vigil"

"God Sees Everything" (pg 153)

1. Select three quotations that are of significance
2. Copy them into a word document, and explain how these are significant to the novel.
3. Post your responses on the blog

Useful Quotations Thus Far

Using the quotations below, compose a detailed paragraph that examines one of the underlying themes from the novel. Attempt to incorporate sophisticated vocabulary, dual adjectives, parallelism, metaphor etc...

“he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high” (89)


"no amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart." (93).


“I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me” (66)


The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to follow the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with my ear alone, before any words came through. A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek, and her hand was wet with glistening drops as I took it to help her from the car. (82)


“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say “I never loved you” (105)

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced-or seemed to face- the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with irresistible prejudice in your favour(49)

Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one. (90)

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known (59)


He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to here perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited. (107)

He wants her to see his house (77)