Critics Reversed Flashcards

1
Q

“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”

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Jonathan Yardley (2007)

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“Gatsby lives in the world of romantic energies and colors”

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Thomas Flanagan (2000) - Gatsby

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3
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“Nick wants to portray Gatsby as ‘great’ and to ignore or edit anything that might undermine that image”

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Claire Stocks (2007) - Nick

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“Nick is considered to be quite reliable, basically honest and ultimately changed by his contact with Gatsby”

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David O’Rourke - Nick

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“Gatsby is somewhat vague. The reader’s eyes can never quite focus upon him, his outlines are dim”

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Thomas Flanagan - Gatsby

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6
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“glamorous story of today”

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Edwin Clark (1925)

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7
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“vulgar and inhuman”

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Alfred Kazin - Daisy Buchanan

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“By attempting to maintain his way of life, Tom has reduced whole people to ashes without any thought of consequences”

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Christine Ramos - Tom Buchanan

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9
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“Only Gatsby himself lives and breathes all others are lifeless”

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H L Meneken (1925)

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10
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‘Scott Fitzgerald has the one thing that a novelist needs: a truly seeing eye’

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Richard Anderson

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“Her siren’s voice was merely full of money”

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Charles Thomas Samuels - Daisy

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12
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“Young and reckless world”

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William Rose Bennett

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13
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“Monstrous moral indifference”

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Marius Bewley - Daisy

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14
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“They are dumb in their insensate selfishness”

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Edwin Clark - general characters

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15
Q

‘The spoils of a good life can spoil a good man if he allows it.’

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Wilkerson, 2003

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