Critics Flashcards
1
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Bernstein: “essentially, passing is a novel about two women whose choices….
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were opposite and whose fates were strangely intertwined.”
2
Q
Rodrigues: “although such dream-like ideals materialised on paper…..
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they failed to materialise in practise”
3
Q
Wall: “Larsen’s protagonists such assume false identities that ensure…..
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social survival but result in psychological suicide”
4
Q
Brody: “Gatsbyesque ascendance to the upper-echelons of white society is…..
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under cut by her patriotic racial sympathies”
5
Q
Royster: “murdering the life-giving force is…..
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a prelude to a spiritual waste land”
6
Q
Am do Lille: “The Redfields marriage is……
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passionless”
7
Q
Nelson: “Clare is…..
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an adventuress”
