Critical Interpretations - Tom and Daisy

Question 1

‘By attempting to maintain his way of life, Tom has reduced whole people to ashes without any thought of consequences’

Answer 1

Christine Ramos

Question 2

‘Tom’s restlessness is an arrogant assertiveness seeking to evade the deep uneasiness of self-knowledge’

Answer 2

A.E. Dyson

Question 3

‘An emptiness curdling into the viciousness of a monstrous moral indifference’

Answer 3

Marius Bewley on Daisy

Question 4

‘Vulgar and inhuman’

Answer 4

Alfred Kazin

Question 5

‘Women characters are decorative characters of seemingly fragile beauty”

Answer 5

Kathleen Parkinson

Question 6

Christine Ramos

Answer 6

‘By attempting to maintain his way of life, Tom has reduced whole people to ashes without any thought of consequences’

Question 7

A.E. Dyson

Answer 7

‘Tom’s restlessness is an arrogant assertiveness seeking to evade the deep uneasiness of self-knowledge’

Question 8

Marius Bewley on Daisy

Answer 8

‘An emptiness curdling into the viciousness of a monstrous moral indifference’

Question 9

Alfred Kazin

Answer 9

‘Vulgar and inhuman’

Question 10

Kathleen Parkinson

Answer 10

‘Women characters are decorative characters of seemingly fragile beauty”