F. Scott Fitzgerald uses imagery and symbolism to represent larger ideas in his stories. For his novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald was able to do something that most authors fail to do. He was able to approve the cover of his book. The cover chosen was a painting of a nocturnal city, watched over by celestial eyes. The eyes stand out against the rest of the dark blue sky due to their sickly yellow color while a teal tear drops from the left. However, a closer look at the eyes on the cover shows that their irises are blue and inside the eyes are two women. The surreal artwork contains as much symbolism as the pages it protects, particularly the eyes for which the painting is named. The women in the eyes on the cover of the novel The Great Gatsby are the eyes of God, reflecting themes of lust and the harlotry nature of materialistic desires. Two women rear up in the eyes of the overseas sky, “au natural”. The nakedness of these women represents the lustful tones of the novel. In the first chapter, the narrator, Nick Carraway, introduces readers to the ...