Gatsby's hope is destroyed by Tom's carelessness, rather then telling the truth he told Wilson that Gatsby ran over his wife. Tom told Nick: "He ran over Myrtle like you"d run over a dog and never even stop the car" (187). This led to Gatsby's death and the end to his hope for a new life with Daisy.
Secondly, the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg looked over "the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it" (27). They were over a vast wasteland of the valley of ashes. The eyes are "blue and gigantic" and they are looking over everything and seeing everything that goes on (27). The eyes look over each situation, objectively, but offer a kind judgment on the characters and theirs actions. They are placed close to the Wilson's because that is where the most self-centered acts take place. All of these crimes go unpunished, so the eyes look on and remind the characters of the guilt that they forget to have for what they have done. Wilson said, "God sees everything" to Michaelis after Myrtle's death. When put "Just as Wilson comes half-consciously to identify the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg with God, so the reader gradually becomes aware of them as representing some kind of detached intellect, brooding gloomily over life in the bleak waste land surrounding it, and presiding fatalistically over the little tragedy as if in sacrifice before it" shows they probably represent God, as a seer of all things(Miller). They judge American society as a moral wasteland, only having meaning because the characters instill them with meaning. They show how the quest for wealth and material possessions has corrupted American spirituality. Fitzgerald chose to represent God by a lifeless pair of eyes which shows his belief that we no longer have a belief in God. Gatsby did not worship God, he worshiped Daisy. Gatsby had the power to change what he desired. .
When he did not his life was brought to a sudden end.
