Gatsby Flashcards
Who believes that Gatsby’s failure originates from his lack of moral guidance from his parents?
Thomas Stavola
When did Fitzgerald learn that life is not a force that can be conquered?
Had a breakdown in 1934
Who was president during the Teapot Scandal?
Warren G. Harding
Who believes that Gatsby’s death was “a product of an elusive, outlived subconscious illusion”?
Thi Huong Giang Bui
Who argues that Nick as a narrator is more of a spectator than an actor?
Max Perkins, Fitzgerald’s editor
Which critic discusses Gatsby’s duality as a “chivalrous lover and cold-blooded killer”?
Keith Gandal
Which critic states that Fitzgerald doesn’t allow us to meet Gatsby until “he has concretely created his fantastic world of Gatsby’s vision”?
Marius Bewley
Which critic describes Gatsby as a romantic hero and states that Fitzgerald appears to believe in the enchantment of the romantic dream?
James E. Miller Jr
What feeds into the modern reader’s belief of first-person narration as unreliable?
Freudian psychology
Who views Myrtle as a sacrificial victim from a class perspective?
Nicolas Tredell
Which critic argues that romanticism in 20th century America is intertwined with capitalism and brutality?
Nicolas Tredell
Which critic argues that class is an issue that Fitzgerald delights in and views as darkly apocalyptic due to upheaval of traditional social order?
Robert Emmet Long
Who declares that Gatsby’s greatness lies in the fact that there is no authentic object of his desire?
Harold Bloom
Where did Fitzgerald go to college?
Princeton
Which critic explored Nick’s fascination with Tom’s masculine body as well as the homoerotic undertones in the scene between Nick and Chester McKee?
Keath Fraser
Wayne Booth
Unreliable narration is about being at a distance; circumventing “norms”; actions conflicting with narration
Which rich socialite did Fitzgerald court when he was younger?
Ginevra King
Who were some of the most popular athletes of the time?
Babe Ruth; Ty Cobb
Which critic views Gatsby as a classic scapegoat?
Thomas J. Cousineau
What does Per Bjorner Grande argue that Nick’s fixation with Gatsby’s mansion is paralleled with?
Kant and his church steeples
Who states that the depreciation of nature is a common trait of both Gnosticism and Existentialism?
Hans Jonas
Which critic believes that we are acting towards Carraway in the same way that he acts towards Gatsby?
Thomas Boyle
When was Fitzgerald alive?
1896-1940
Which critic states that Fitzgerald’s first two novels expose common failure of Romantic writers- the inability to understand true nature of characters?
Gary J. Scrimgeour
Which critic believes that Gatsby’s failure is his prolongation of the “adolescent incapacity to distinguish between dream and reality”?
William Troy
Who argues that Gatsby tries to maintain his own loneliness?
Thi Huong Giang Bui
Which critic argues that Jordan is an honest hedonist?
Gary J. Scrimgeour
Which critic argues that Fitzgerald was “the man at the dance and also the poor boy outside with his nose pressed to the glass”?
Malcolm Cowley
When was the novel published?
1925
Which critic believes that Fitzgerald projected some of himself onto both Gatsby and Nick?
Bill Mullen
Who believes that Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 adaptation fails to appreciate Fitzgerald’s intensely ironic ambivalence and hostility towards the upper classes?
Bill Mullen
What was Wilsonian idealism replaced with?
Disillusion; isolationism
When was there a massive influenza epidemic?
Spring of 1918- spread throughout Europe in 1917
How many Americans were killed in the massive influenza epidemic?
More than 1/2 million
What small but influential group of writers and intellectuals was Fitzgerald part of?
‘Lost Generation’
What defined the ‘Lost Generation’?
Shocked by carnage of WW1; dissatisfied with materialism and spiritual emptiness of USA
What was government policy like in the 1920s?
Very conservative
