critics

Question 1

quote about ownership of women

Answer 1

• Fetterley believed the novel is about ownership

‘ownership of women is invoked as he index of power: he who possesses Daisy is the most powerful boy’

Question 2

quote about Mrytle trying to be more wealthy

Answer 2

Ronald Berman

‘everything about the apartment suggests that, like Gatsby, Mrytle has got her ideas about class and style from the mass market’

Question 3

quote about Jordan

Answer 3

Frances Kerr

‘no other woman in the novel has such control’

Question 4

quote about the class system

Answer 4

’ fitzgerald seems to suggest, society is strictly ordered, and for the elite to remain in their exclusive position at the top of the hierarchy, those below them must also remain in their proper place’

clare stocks

Question 5

quote about american dream

Answer 5

fitzgerald shows ‘the quest for a new life, the preoccupation with class, the Hunger for riches’

Jonathon Yardley

Question 6

critics belief about Daisy

Answer 6

Darren morton

the colour white shows Daisy is a ‘blank canvas’ that men project their desires onto

Question 7

feminist approach

Answer 7

looking at the position of women in the text and how they are marginalised