Ao5 Flashcards
Gray- The East
‘The East… have become for them a new frontier…neutral space in which dreams of wealth, measureless power and mobility may be realised’.
Stern- Falsehood of American Dream
‘How hard it is to be an American, enticed by your nation, only to have to grow up at last and settle for the cold limitations of history’
Bradbury
‘A story of a careless, materially privileged society build upon a sterile world.’
Lid- Daisy
‘incarnation of all his elaborate fantasies, his vision of the American Dream.’
Baker- Relationship change between Gastby and Daisy
[Early love of G and D} ‘innocent and true’
[End of the Book] ‘tawdry and ruined. Stained by blood, stained by adultery, stained by her equivocations and shady lies’