AO5- Critical interpretations Flashcards
“women are viewed as possessions in male…”
“power games”- Gregory S Jay
“Fitzgeralds language proves a resistance to change”
David Stouck
Michael Foucault proclaimed that “the modern man is not”
“the man who attempts to uncover his personal secretes and truths, but the man who tries to invent himself”
Marius Bewley stated that “The great gatsby offers some of the severest…”
“and closest criticism of the American dream”
“the theme of Gatsby is the…”
“withering of the American dream” - Marius Bewley
Marius Bewley stated that “it is not probable that anything better will be discovered than….”
“what was known to our fathers”
“the great gatsby explores the american dream in an co….”
“corrupt period” - Marius Bewley
“the American dream kept men from becoming old or too…”- Kenneth Elbe
“too wise or cynical of their human limitations”
John Bicknell comment on Gatsby in relation to ‘Wasteland” by TS Elliot
“Gatsby is the prose form of Wasteland”
A depiction of all the bad in human nature
Who commented that “when Gatsby’s dream of love is destroyed, he is nothing but his extravagant props”
Sven Birkerts
comment on the Jazz age - “gatsby is as much a victim as he is…”
“an exploiter” - James E Miller Jnr
“gatsby embodies a grotesque way the desire to…”
“transcend time” James E Miller
Scott Donaldson’s comment on the power of money….
“Gatsby documents the truism in the phrase that “money can’t buy you love”
