Critics Flashcards
Jonathan Yardley (2007)
“Fitzgerald give us a meditation on some of this country’s most central ideas… the quest for new life, the preoccupation with class, the hunger for riches”
Thomas Flanagan (2000) - Gatsby
“Gatsby lives in the world of romantic energies and colors”
Claire Stocks (2007) - Nick
“Nick wants to portray Gatsby as ‘great’ and to ignore or edit anything that might undermine that image”
David O’Rourke - Nick
“Nick is considered to be quite reliable, basically honest and ultimately changed by his contact with Gatsby”
Thomas Flanagan - Gatsby
“Gatsby is somewhat vague. The reader’s eyes can never quite focus upon him, his outlines are dim”
Edwin Clark (1925)
“glamorous story of today”
Alfred Kazin - Daisy Buchanan
“vulgar and inhuman”
Christine Ramos - Tom Buchanan
“By attempting to maintain his way of life, Tom has reduced whole people to ashes without any thought of consequences”
H L Meneken (1925)
“Only Gatsby himself lives and breathes all others are lifeless”
Richard Anderson
‘Scott Fitzgerald has the one thing that a novelist needs: a truly seeing eye’
Charles Thomas Samuels - Daisy
“Her siren’s voice was merely full of money”
William Rose Bennett
“Young and reckless world”
Marius Bewley - Daisy
“Monstrous moral indifference”
Edwin Clark - general characters
“They are dumb in their insensate selfishness”
Wilkerson, 2003
‘The spoils of a good life can spoil a good man if he allows it.’
