Tag: Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
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The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg and the diagnostic gaze as moral authority in The Great Gatsby
Rachel BrackenHouston, Texas, United States The eyes of Doctor 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 non-existent nose. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his…