The Themes Of Great Gatsby

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dream. The only characters, who see, in the sense of “understand,” are Nick and Owl Eyes. The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg seem to reinforce the theme that there is no all seeing presence in the modern world.
The past is a central importance in the novel, whether it is Gatsby’s personal past, his affair with Daisy in 1917, or the larger past to which Nick refers in the closing sentence of the novel: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” The past holds something that both Gatsby and Nick seem to long for: a simpler, better, nobler time, perhaps a time when people believed in the importance of the family and the church. Tom, Daisy, and Jordan are characters of the present, we are told nothing about there past, and it is this that makes them so attractive, and also so rootless and empty.
Once again, themes make a novel good…any good novel has important themes. They teach us morals, or to mend our morals. The Great Gatsby has many profitable themes ...

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