Critics Reversed Flashcards
“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”
Jonathan Yardley (2007)
“Gatsby lives in the world of romantic energies and colors”
Thomas Flanagan (2000) - Gatsby
“Nick wants to portray Gatsby as ‘great’ and to ignore or edit anything that might undermine that image”
Claire Stocks (2007) - Nick
“Nick is considered to be quite reliable, basically honest and ultimately changed by his contact with Gatsby”
David O’Rourke - Nick
“Gatsby is somewhat vague. The reader’s eyes can never quite focus upon him, his outlines are dim”
Thomas Flanagan - Gatsby
“glamorous story of today”
Edwin Clark (1925)
“vulgar and inhuman”
Alfred Kazin - Daisy Buchanan
“By attempting to maintain his way of life, Tom has reduced whole people to ashes without any thought of consequences”
Christine Ramos - Tom Buchanan
“Only Gatsby himself lives and breathes all others are lifeless”
H L Meneken (1925)
‘Scott Fitzgerald has the one thing that a novelist needs: a truly seeing eye’
Richard Anderson
“Her siren’s voice was merely full of money”
Charles Thomas Samuels - Daisy
“Young and reckless world”
William Rose Bennett
“Monstrous moral indifference”
Marius Bewley - Daisy
“They are dumb in their insensate selfishness”
Edwin Clark - general characters
‘The spoils of a good life can spoil a good man if he allows it.’
Wilkerson, 2003
