The Eyes of Eckleberg

Owl Eye was always been that character that seems suspicious and as a reader you are constantly questioning. I wasn’t really sure who he was at first and just saw him for whom he was, a man who was interested in Gatsby’s life. After finishing the novel and discussing it in class I begin to agree with the interpretations that we have made about him. I think that he could be the only person that understands who Gatsby was deep down, the only one who didn’t buy into all the rumors that were being spread about Gatsby. However the explanation that made more sense to me was that he was the actual TJ Eckleberg, the man who was there “god”. It makes sense to me that Fitzgerald would want to hide the actual Eckleberg yet allow the readers with a little thought to determine that he really was present in the novel. The name Owl Eyes is a very discrete way to spark attention to the fact that he might be TJ since Eckleberg was an eye doctor and was known to watch them at all times. It really allowed me to finish the novel off with closure and success in understanding the meaning of everything.