用google搜了一下，果然用heavens是另有深意的

看這篇文章，說的是對於Gat*****y這個人物的分析：

http://www.helium.com/items/851501-literary-analysis-the-character-of-gat*****y-in-the-great-gat*****y-by-f-scott

說Gat*****y是Christ-like。

The character of Gat*****y is also seen as a religious entity when Nick describes Gat*****y's appearance in the yard the first night Nick sees him:
Something in his leisurely movements and the secure postion of his feet
upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gat*****y himself, come out to
determine what share was his of our local heavens (25).

A somewhat less obvious, yet direct statement about Gat*****y as Christ-like can be found in the recounting of the evening between Daisy and Gat*****y in the past:
[Gat*****y] knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God (117).

Not only does this passage suggest that Gat*****y's mind is like that of God, but it refers to Daisy's breath as perishable. One could assume that the inclusion of this description would assert that Gat*****y's breath, or life, was not perishable.

Though one could assume Gat*****y to be a Christ figure based solely on the statements above, there are several more references to this intriguing character that are veiled in religious references. In describing Gat*****y's personality, for example, Nick explains that Gat*****y had "an extraordinary gift of hope...(6)." In his examinations of Christianity in the Bible, Paul explains that hope is one of the three theological。。。

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