AO5 - Critical Interpretations Flashcards
What does James E. Miller Jr. say about Gatsby’s memory?
‘His dream is transfigured by imagined memory’.
What does Roger Lewis say about the world of the Great Gatsby?
‘The world of the Great Gatsby can seem as sordid, loveless, commercial and dead as the ash heaps presided over by the eyes of Dr TJ Eckleburg’.
What does Magistrale say about the web of time?
‘Through this metaphorical web, Nick Caraway draws us into a dialogue of participation in Jay Gatsby’s attempt to ‘repeat the past’.
What does Pelzer say Nick has benefitted from?
‘He has had the benefit of time to reflect on and evaluate the experience’.
What does Jeffrey Decker say it is a story of?
‘A story of entrepreneurial corruption’.
What does Streissguth say about the 1920’s?
It was a ‘never ending display of immoral corruption’.
What does Sebastian Fealth say about Gatsby and the American Dream?
‘By adding the illegal aspect to Gatsby’s success he also problematises the American Dream’.
What does Fealth say about the importance of Gatsby being a soldier?
‘In making Gatsby a soldier, Fitzgerald at once eliminates and highlights the issues of social class’.
What does Edwin Clark in 1925 say about the novel and Fitzgerald?
‘A mystical, glamorous story of today’ one that ‘takes a deeper cut at life than hitherto has been enjoyed by Mr Fitzgerald’.
What does Tanner say about the green light?
‘The green light offers Gatsby a suitably inaccessible focus for his yearning’.
What does Milton Hindus say about Wolfsheim?
‘Fitzgerald does not allow a single redeeming characteristic to his Jewish gambler’.
What does Carrey Mulligan say about Daisy?
‘She’s constantly on show, performing all the time’.
What does Patrice Comeau say about Gatsby’s car?
‘A symbol of prosperity, wealth, and everything he has worked to be a part of, becomes an instrument of violent death’.
What does Ramos say about Tom?
‘By attempting to maintain his way of life, Tom has reduced whole people to ashes without any thought or consequences’.
What does Katie Baker say about Gatsby and Daisy’s love?
‘While the love between the young Gatsby and teenaged Daisy seems innocent and true, by the end of the book, it’s tawdry and ruined’.
