Critics

Question 1

Keith Fraser on Daisy

Answer 1

“She is torn between a desire for personal freedom (represented by love for Gatsby) and her fear of emotions and need for stability”

Question 2

Fredrick C. Millet on Gatsby

Answer 2

“Referring to the problems of American wealth and spirituality on another”

Question 3

Judith Fetterley on Daisy

Answer 3

“Surviving Daisy is the object of the novels hostility and as scapegoat”

Question 4

Tony Tanner on Gatsby

Answer 4

“Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret longing that can never be fulfilled”

Question 5

Sansford Pinsker on Huck

Answer 5

“Huck is a very young, young boy, despite his sound heart and outbursts of good sense. He is, in short, given to back-sliding of the human sort.”
“Freedom is America’s abiding subject, as well as its deepest problem”

Question 6

Leslie Gregory on Jim

Answer 6

“Twain’s juxtaposition of Jim the minstrel and Jim the human being is reflective of the ambiguity of black humanity in the late 1800s”

Question 7

Steven Mintz on Huck

Answer 7

“Twain is showing that moral authority can come from a representative of ‘poor white trash’ and a juvenile delinquent”