Gatsby Critcs Flashcards
‘The impressions generated by Daisy Fay’s
name are of sunshine. Transience and vague reality.’
McMechan
‘Flapperdom stood for individual rebellion
Against the old pieties and restraints’
Sanderson
‘Unlike all the other characters Nick
met, Gatsby had hope’
Bloom
‘Money alone is not enough
to win entrance’
Bussey
‘For Gatsby, Daisy does not
exist in herself. [she] is only the promise of fulfilment that lies beyond the green light’
Bewley
‘Fitzgerald clearly intended
A fundamental criticism of the ‘American Dream’’
Millgate
‘Gatsby may be a product of his age, an American emblem of
Hope, faith and self-fashioning - but he is also our tragedy, a universal symbol of this impossibility of those hopes, and the poignant grandeur of splendid failure’
Churchwell
‘By attempting to maintain his way of life, Tom has
Reduced whole people to ashes without any thought of consequences’
Ramos
“nick transcribes these account; how much he may be requiting his sources and how much
translating them - transforming, embellishing, amplifying, rewording - we can never know”
Tony Tanner
“conceiving oneself would seem to be a
final expression of rootlessness”
Roger Lewis
“A lost generation of men and women adrift in a chaotic
hell of their own solipsism”
Stein
Nick feels a “sense of
alienation, loss and despair”
Forward
“Jordan begins a rootless
existence in which she lives in the homes of others”
Makowsky
New York has “the queer charm, colour,
wonder and drama of a young and reckless world”
Bennett
“the stubborn closeness of Tom and Daisy’s marriage, despite Daisy’s exaggerated
unhappiness and Tom’s filandering reinforces the dominance of the old money class over the world of Gatsby”
Wulick
