{"id":214,"date":"2017-02-17T17:14:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T22:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=214"},"modified":"2017-02-17T17:14:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T22:14:53","slug":"great-gatsby-112-180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/willa-cather-novel\/great-gatsby-112-180\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Gatsby, 112-180"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On page 159, Wilson makes a reference to the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleberg, aliking them to the eyes of God. He is makes a comment directed at his cheating wife, Myrtle, that &#8220;God is always watching.&#8221; I found this passage curious as throughout the novel it seems like a faithless community- in many ways, wealth and social standing dictates actions more than morals as seen through the greed, cheating and scandal. Furthermore, we have discussed Wilson as being one of the only true representations of the blue collar working class. This leads to the question: Does Fitzgerald see religion as a uniquely a value of the lower social classes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On page 159, Wilson makes a reference to the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleberg, aliking them to the eyes of God. He is makes a comment directed at his cheating wife, Myrtle, that &#8220;God is always watching.&#8221; I found this passage curious as throughout the novel it seems like a faithless community- in many ways, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-great-gatsby","category-willa-cather-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}