Critics Flashcards
Spark notes.. ‘like nick Fitzgerald saw through…
The glitter of the jazz age to the moral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath’
Who said ‘ to dream up a new life…
You must destroy the old one’ - kothman
Who said ‘Fitzgerald portrays America as female whereas the dreamers are male’
Fetterly
Who said ‘gatsbys childish naivety’
Edward Limb
‘Gatsbys invented past is a…
Psychological defence to help him forget his real past’
‘The only thing worth writing about..
Is the human heart in conflict with itself’ - William Faulkner
Gatsby’s dream of love..
symbolises the death of love itself- ababneh
his attempts were all to meet…
the materialistic attitudes of Daisy’s love- ashalabi
Daisy’s failure of gatsby is symbolic..
Of the failure of America to live up to expectations- fetterly
Society was living in..
Excess without curbing it’s appetite as ruin was just around the corner- cliffs notes
The American dream is..
Deadly to the people - bullison
Society was living in excess…
Without curbing its appetite ruin was just around the corner- cliff notes
Men will be seen continually…
Trying to change their track in fear of missing the shortest cut to happiness- Tocqueville
Fitzgeralds fable contrasts Americas…
Romantic western past with her unromantic eastern present- Eble
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‘Fitzgeralds fable contrasts americas romantic western past with her unromantic eastern present’
