Initial ideas for my creative story idea came from my creative writing piece came from Two Words by Isabel Allende. In her story, two words play such a significant role in the story and has power on the characters. I incorporated the power and significance of the eyes, just like she had down with her words. The significance of the eyes, just like the words drives the character to find more of what they mean and drive them to insanity. Eyes, in Janet’s perspective is the key of connecting the past to the present. She gets drawn into it and it changes her just like words spoken to the colonel had changed his life through the powerful significance of the words.
The central motif that I had chosen to be explored in my piece was the eyes of Eckleburg. In the Great Gatsby, Eckleburg’s medical practice is gone but his presence through his eyes still remain. I have interpreted Eckleburg as a memory of the past and a reminder. Elliot’s eyes reminds Janet throughout the story of the memory of her past and Elliot. This is explored where Janet sees the eyes which leads her into one of her flashbacks.
At first, my central motif, eyes were originally seen to be sinister and I would have …show more content…
It was ambiguous to the point where the readers would think one way but not be completely sure if that’s what had really happened. This is seen through the disappearance of Elliot, it is not known if he is dead or not but you can assume he has faded away into Janet’s memory. The ambiguous nature of my story is also seen as one of my strengths in my story as the reader would have had to connect everything that has happened and the whole point of the flashbacks makes sense once the story is read till the end. Another strength in my story was the idea of incorporating flashbacks to give detail on how the first paragraph of my story would be the driving nature of my whole