Critics Quotes Flashcards
1
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Unreliable narrator- Thomas Boyle
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‘An unreliable narrator makes for a stronger demand of the readers power of interference’
2
Q
Green light- Tony Tanner
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‘The green light offers Gatsby a suitably inaccessible focus for his yearning’
3
Q
Flapperdom- Rena Sanderson
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‘Flapperdom stood for individual rebellion against the old pieties and restraints’
4
Q
Gatsby and America- Lionel Trilling
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‘Gatsby comes inevitably to stand for America itself’
5
Q
Platonic ideals- Loland S Person
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‘No human being could ever approximate the platonic ideal he has invented’
6
Q
Tom- Christine Romos
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‘Tom has reduced whole people to ashes’
7
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Daisy- Kazin
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‘Daisy is vulgar and inhuman’
8
Q
Nicks portrayl as Gatsby- Claire Stocks
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‘Nick won’t portray Gatsby as anything but great’
