Critics Quotes Flashcards
Jonathan Yardley (2007)- GATSBY
“Fitzgerald give us a meditation on some of this country’s most central ideas… the quest for new life, the preoccupation with class, the hunger for riches”
Claire Stocks (2007)- GATSBY
“Nick wants to portray Gatsby as ‘great’ and to ignore or edit anything that might undermine that image”
David O’Rourke- GATSBY
“Nick is considered to be quite reliable, basically honest and ultimately changed by his contact with Gatsby”
Thomas Flanagan- GATSBY
“Gatsby is somewhat vague. The reader’s eyes can never quite focus upon him, his outlines are dim”
Marius Bewley- GATSBY
At the beginning, Daisy has “an emptiness that we see curdling into the viciousness of of a monstrous moral indifference as the story unfolds”
Alfred Kazin- GATSBY
Daisy is “vulgar and inhuman”
Christine Ramos- GATSBY
“By attempting to maintain his way of life, Tom has reduced whole people to ashes without any thought of consequences”
Kathleen Parkinson- GATSBY
“In all his fiction women characters are decorative characters of seemingly fragile beauty”
William Fahey- GATSBY
The characters “[…] dream based on the assumption that material possessions are synonymous with happiness, harmony and beauty”
Rose Page- GATSBY
“Automobiles exacerbate social divisions in the novel.”
Emily D. Irvine- GRAPES
“Women in Steinbeck’s novel are portrayed as adaptable in times of adversity”
Peter Monro Jack- GRAPES
“The promised grapes of California have turned into grapes of wrath that might come to fruition at any moment.”
CT. Dougherty- GRAPES
“The Christlike figure is Tom Joad and not Jim Casy…Tom is active and effective where Casy is a dreamer.”
Louis Kronenberger- GRAPES (on themes)
“The theme is large and tragic.”
Louis Kronenberger- GRAPES (on poverty in the novel)
“Grand tour of exploitation and destitution.”
