Gatsby Flashcards

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Who believes that Gatsby’s failure originates from his lack of moral guidance from his parents?

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Thomas Stavola

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When did Fitzgerald learn that life is not a force that can be conquered?

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Had a breakdown in 1934

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Who was president during the Teapot Scandal?

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Warren G. Harding

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Who believes that Gatsby’s death was “a product of an elusive, outlived subconscious illusion”?

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Thi Huong Giang Bui

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Who argues that Nick as a narrator is more of a spectator than an actor?

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Max Perkins, Fitzgerald’s editor

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Which critic discusses Gatsby’s duality as a “chivalrous lover and cold-blooded killer”?

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Keith Gandal

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Which critic states that Fitzgerald doesn’t allow us to meet Gatsby until “he has concretely created his fantastic world of Gatsby’s vision”?

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Marius Bewley

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Which critic describes Gatsby as a romantic hero and states that Fitzgerald appears to believe in the enchantment of the romantic dream?

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James E. Miller Jr

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What feeds into the modern reader’s belief of first-person narration as unreliable?

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Freudian psychology

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Who views Myrtle as a sacrificial victim from a class perspective?

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Nicolas Tredell

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Which critic argues that romanticism in 20th century America is intertwined with capitalism and brutality?

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Nicolas Tredell

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Which critic argues that class is an issue that Fitzgerald delights in and views as darkly apocalyptic due to upheaval of traditional social order?

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Robert Emmet Long

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Who declares that Gatsby’s greatness lies in the fact that there is no authentic object of his desire?

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Harold Bloom

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Where did Fitzgerald go to college?

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Princeton

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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?

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Keath Fraser

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16
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Wayne Booth

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Unreliable narration is about being at a distance; circumventing “norms”; actions conflicting with narration

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Which rich socialite did Fitzgerald court when he was younger?

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Ginevra King

18
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Who were some of the most popular athletes of the time?

A

Babe Ruth; Ty Cobb

19
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Which critic views Gatsby as a classic scapegoat?

A

Thomas J. Cousineau

20
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What does Per Bjorner Grande argue that Nick’s fixation with Gatsby’s mansion is paralleled with?

A

Kant and his church steeples

21
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Who states that the depreciation of nature is a common trait of both Gnosticism and Existentialism?

A

Hans Jonas

22
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Which critic believes that we are acting towards Carraway in the same way that he acts towards Gatsby?

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Thomas Boyle

23
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When was Fitzgerald alive?

24
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Which critic states that Fitzgerald’s first two novels expose common failure of Romantic writers- the inability to understand true nature of characters?

A

Gary J. Scrimgeour

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Which critic believes that Gatsby's failure is his prolongation of the "adolescent incapacity to distinguish between dream and reality"?
William Troy
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Who argues that Gatsby tries to maintain his own loneliness?
Thi Huong Giang Bui
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Which critic argues that Jordan is an honest hedonist?
Gary J. Scrimgeour
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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
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When was the novel published?
1925
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Which critic believes that Fitzgerald projected some of himself onto both Gatsby and Nick?
Bill Mullen
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Who believes that Baz Luhrmann's 2013 adaptation fails to appreciate Fitzgerald's intensely ironic ambivalence and hostility towards the upper classes?
Bill Mullen
32
What was Wilsonian idealism replaced with?
Disillusion; isolationism
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When was there a massive influenza epidemic?
Spring of 1918- spread throughout Europe in 1917
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How many Americans were killed in the massive influenza epidemic?
More than 1/2 million
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What small but influential group of writers and intellectuals was Fitzgerald part of?
'Lost Generation'
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What defined the 'Lost Generation'?
Shocked by carnage of WW1; dissatisfied with materialism and spiritual emptiness of USA
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What was government policy like in the 1920s?
Very conservative