Critics Flashcards
TGG
Daisy Buchanan is the source of Jay Gatsby’s greatest fantasies, “the golden girl” described as having a voice “full of money.”
TGG - Marius Bewley
Daisy … has no substance. She is a gesture that is committed to nothing more real than her own image on the silver screen
TGG - Richard W. Lid
[Daisy] is the bright symbol of Gatsby’s dreams. Beautiful and rich, she is the incarnation of all his elaborate fantasies, his vision of the American Dream.
TGG - Leland S. Person, Jr.
Daisy, in fact, is more victim than victimizer: she is first victim of Tom Buchanan’s “cruel” power, but then of Gatsby’s increasingly depersonalized vision of her.
TGG - Carey Mulligan
She’s constantly on show, performing all the time. Nothing bad can happen in a dream. You can’t die in a dream.
TGG - Thomas Boyle
“An unreliable narrator… makes for a stronger demand on the reader’s power of inference”
TGG - Tony Tanner
“The green light offers Gatsby a suitably inaccessible focus for his yearning”
TTG - Edwin Clark
‘…Fitzgerald discloses in these people a means of spirit, carelessness and absence of loyalties.’
TGG - Thomas Flanagan
‘Gatsby is somewhat vague. The reader’s eyes can never quite focus upon him, his outlines are dim’
TGG - Christine Ramos
‘By attempting to maintain his way of life, Tom has reduced whole people to ashes without any thought of consequences’
GofW - Hughes
“Steinbeck countered the idealism of the frontier”
GofW - Spangler
“Steinbeck has smashed the notions of the American dream”
GofW - Arthur Miller
“with the possible exception of Mark Twain, who so deeply penetrated the political life of the country.
GofW - Lyle Borden
this book exposes a condition and a character…the truth is this book exposes nothing but the total depravity, vulgarity, and degraded mentality of the author
GofW - Nicholas Tredeli
The motor vehicles become more than mechanical as they are invested with human desires
