F. Scott Fitzgerald uses imagery and symbolism to represent larger ideas in his stories. For his novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald managed to do something that most authors are not able to do. He was able to approve the cover of his book. The cover chosen was a painting of a nighttime city, watched over by celestial eyes. The eyes stand out in juxtaposition with the rest of the dark blue sky due to their sickly yellow color as a turquoise teardrop descends from the left. However, upon closer inspection of the eyes on the cover, we see that their irises are blue and inside the eyes are two women. The surrealist artwork contains as much symbolism as the pages it protects, particularly the eyes that give the painting its name. 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 meritorious nature of materialistic desires. In the eyes of the overseas sky two women prance, “au naturel”. The nudity of these women represents the lustful tones of the novel. In the first chapter, narrator Nick Carraway introduces readers to the ...