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山西财经大学毕业论文（设计） 山西财经大学毕业论文（设计） PAGE 10 PAGE 11 The Art of Symbolism in the Great Gatsby 1. Introduction F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1926) is, at first sight, a novel about love, idealism and disillusionment. However, it soon reveals its hidden depths and enigmas. What is the significance of the strange “waste land” between West Egg and New York, where Myrtle Wilson meets her death, an alien landscape presided over by the eyes of T J Eckleburg whose eyes, like God’s, “see everything”? And what are we to make of the