AO5: The Great Gatsby

Question 1

Mark Twain

Answer 1

“Failure is not the dark side of the American Dream it is the foundation of it”

Question 2

Marius Bewley {Daisy}

Answer 2

“[Daisy has] an emptiness that we see curdling into the viciousness of a monstrous moral indifference as the story unfolds”

Question 3

Mason Scisco

Answer 3

“Gatsby transforms Daisy herself into a thing”

Question 4

Claire stocks

Answer 4

“Nick wants to portray gatsby as ‘great’ and to ignore or edit anything that might undermine that image’

Question 5

Thomas Flanagan

Answer 5

“Gatsby lives in a world of romantic energies and colours”

Question 6

Tonny Tanner

Answer 6

“Nick transcribes these accounts; how much he may be requiting his sorces and how much translating them… we can never know”

Question 7

Rena Sanderson

Answer 7

“Flapperdom stood for individual rebllion against the old pieties and restraints

Question 8

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 8

“the man who dies rich, dies disgraced”

Question 9

A E Dyson

Answer 9

“Tom’s relentlessness is an arrogant assertiveness seeking to evade in bluster the deep uneasiness of self-knowledge”