critics quotes Flashcards
1
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H.L. Menchen
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“Their idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity and triviality, their glittering swinishness”
2
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Tony Tanner
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“Nick transcribes these accounts; how much he may be requiting his sources and hoe much translating them- transforming, embellishing, amplifying, rewording- we can never know”
3
Q
Rodger lewis (the characters)
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“The characters of ‘The Great Gatsby’ are pursuing a world of misunderstood elegance”
4
Q
Rodger Lewis (Conceiving)
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“Conceiving one’s self would seem to be a final expression of rootlessness”
5
Q
Michelle McMechan
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“The impressions generated by Daisy Fay’s name are of sunshine. Transience and vague unreality”
6
Q
Rena Sanderson
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“Flapperdom stood for individual rebellion against the old pieties and restraints”
