Love, happiness, and destruction can greatly be seen in The Great Gatsby. Truly, money can blind the heart, creating false fantasies that can prevent a person from seeing reality. The godly and unrealistic character in The Great Gatsby is the notorious billboard of Dr. I.J. Eckleburg (Hermansson 139). Eckleburg was made into a false idol, a watchman, and a silent killer that was unable to neither move nor talk. The significance of Dr. Eckleburg demonstrated how the Valley of Ashes was a place where some people that had little hope placed it all into Dr. Eckleburg. When our hearts are blind, we are prevented from seeing what is truly there. Instead by blinding our hearts some people strive to appeal to what the eyes see instead of what the heart feels. In fact virtues, morals, or common thoughts are beneficial with the decision making for every day life. We must have only the necessary items in order to diminish the creation of a monster (Aristotle 191). In the Nicomachean Ethics, the “complete virtues” are close to true happiness when a man has much wealth. A wealthy man believes that he has true happiness, but he actually has pleasure over his material goods. Aristotle states that mankind becomes “slavish” to satisfy this hunger, which creates
Love, happiness, and destruction can greatly be seen in The Great Gatsby. Truly, money can blind the heart, creating false fantasies that can prevent a person from seeing reality. The godly and unrealistic character in The Great Gatsby is the notorious billboard of Dr. I.J. Eckleburg (Hermansson 139). Eckleburg was made into a false idol, a watchman, and a silent killer that was unable to neither move nor talk. The significance of Dr. Eckleburg demonstrated how the Valley of Ashes was a place where some people that had little hope placed it all into Dr. Eckleburg. When our hearts are blind, we are prevented from seeing what is truly there. Instead by blinding our hearts some people strive to appeal to what the eyes see instead of what the heart feels. In fact virtues, morals, or common thoughts are beneficial with the decision making for every day life. We must have only the necessary items in order to diminish the creation of a monster (Aristotle 191). In the Nicomachean Ethics, the “complete virtues” are close to true happiness when a man has much wealth. A wealthy man believes that he has true happiness, but he actually has pleasure over his material goods. Aristotle states that mankind becomes “slavish” to satisfy this hunger, which creates