Critical Interpretations - Gatsby

Question 1

‘[Gatsby] tries to live in a world where past, present, and future are all one’

Answer 1

Stavola

Question 1

‘False prophet of the American Dream’

Answer 1

Roger L. Pearson

Question 2

‘Gatsby is a symbol of America itself’

Answer 2

R. Stallman

Question 3

‘His success comes at a corrupt time’

Answer 3

Malcom Cowley

Question 4

‘The green light offers Gatsby a suitably inaccessible focus for his yearning’

Answer 4

Tony Tanner

Question 5

‘Gatsby’s death links him to Myrtle and Wilson, the other working-class victims’

Answer 5

Goldsmith

Question 6

‘Gatsby is a proletarian character, who has no pretence of breeding and struggles upwards from poverty and ignorance

Answer 6

Geismar

Question 7

‘Money can’t buy Gatsby access to the class that Tom Buchanan inhabits’

Answer 7

Iredell

Question 8

‘Gatsby really believes in himself and his illusions’

Answer 8

A.E. Dyson

Question 9

Stavola

Answer 9

‘[Gatsby] tries to live in a world where past, present, and future are all one’

Question 10

Roger L. Pearson

Answer 10

‘False prophet of the American Dream’

Question 11

R. Stallman

Answer 11

‘Gatsby is a symbol of America itself’

Question 12

Malcom Cowley

Answer 12

‘His success comes at a corrupt time’

Question 13

Tony Tanner

Answer 13

‘The green light offers Gatsby a suitably inaccessible focus for his yearning’

Question 14

Goldsmith

Answer 14

‘Gatsby’s death links him to Myrtle and Wilson, the other working-class victims’

Question 15

Geismar

Answer 15

‘Gatsby is a proletarian character, who has no pretence of breeding and struggles upwards from poverty and ignorance

Question 16

Iredell

Answer 16

‘Money can’t buy Gatsby access to the class that Tom Buchanan inhabits’

Question 17

A.E. Dyson

Answer 17

‘Gatsby really believes in himself and his illusions’