American lit critics Flashcards
Reynolds on Nick
he is both a symptom and analyst of a class based society
Kazin on Daisy
vulgar and inhuman
Edwin Clarke on Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald discloses in these people a means of spirit, carelessness and absence of loyalties
RW Stallman on Gatsby
Gatsby is a modern Icarus
Congressman of Oklahoma on grapes
exposes nothing but the total depravity, vulgarity, and degraded mentality of the author
Crockett on California
not a promised land but a blighted Eden
Coffman on the Joads
the Joad family are at the mercy of forces beyond their control
Kronenberger on grapes
document of protest and compassion
Alan Yucas on grapes
Steinbeck did not want us to lose hope, he wanted us to get angry at those who would strip hope from us
Haslam on Ma
the family’s core
Cowley on grapes
what one remembers most of all is Steinbecks sympathy for the migrants
John Bicknell on grapes
explores the modern corruption in contrast to a lost rather than emergent ideal
Lisca on grapes
man’s spiritual brotherhood must express itself in a social unity
Singh on Tom
Tom aspires to be Jim Casy
Robert J. Wiersema on religion
Jim Casy makes the case often that religious faith offers little more than hypocrisy and conflict
Railton on grapes
Steinbeck’s antagonist in the novel is not the group of large owners, but rather the idea of ownership itself
Steinbeck on anger
anger is the healthiest thing in the world… anger is a symbol of thought evaluation and reaction; without it what have we got?
Cowley on Steinbeck
has the force of the headlong anger that drives ahead from the first chapter to last
Collins on Steinbeck
tied to the marxist loom but feels outrage at the violation of the bond between man and soil
Yardley on Fitzgerald
this country’s most central ideas… the quest for new life, the preoccupation with class, the hunger for riches
Stocks on Nick
nick wants to portray Gatsby as ‘great’ and to ignore anything that , right undermine that image
A.E Dyson on Gatsby
in one sense Gatsby is the apotheosis of his rootlesss society… he really believe in himself and his illusions
Flanagan on Gatsby
Gatsby is somewhat vague. The readers eyes can never quite focus upon him, his outlines are dim
Bewley on Daisy
an emptiness that we see curdling into the viciousness of a monstrous moral indifference
Ramos on Tom B
tom has reduced whole people to ashes without any thought of consequences
Orstein on American society
the coming tragedy of a nation grown decadent without achieving maturity
H.L Mencken on Gatsby characters
idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity
Morton on Daisy
Daisy represents a blank canvas that men can project their desires onto
Cavender on Myrtle
a pathetic figure desperate to escape her conflicted circumstances
Motley on the joads
the Joad family shifts from a patriarchal structure to a predominantly matriarchal one
Page on the car
it exacerbates social divisions in the novel
