Gatsby - Critics Flashcards
Clark “They are dumb…
In their insensate selfishness”
Stocks “Nick wants to portray Gatsby…
As ‘great’ and to ignore or edit anything that might undermine that image”
Flanagan “Gatsby lives in the world
Of romantic energies and colours”
Kazin Daisy Buchanan “vulgar
And inhumane”
Bennet “Young and
Reckless world”
Wulick (American Dream)
- a pessimistic critique of the American Dream
Stallman on Gatsby
“Gatsby is a modern day Icarus”
Clarke (Themes in Gatsby)
“Fitzgerald disclosed in these people a means of spirit, carelessness and an absence of loyalty”
Reynolds on Nick
“He is both a symptom and analyst of a class-based society”
Grander - Gatsby as a hero
“Gatsby is clearly a romantic hero”
Stavola - Gatsby’s Delusion
“Gatsby tries to live in a world where past,present and future are all one”
Pearson - Gatsby and The American Dream
“Gatsby: False prophet of the American Dream”
Dyson - On Nick’s Understanding
“Because of his background (Nick) has enough knowledge about both worlds to be able to see both Daisy and Myrtle clearly”
Benet - Gatsby’s Hope
“But he was a man who had hope. He was a child. He believed in a childish thing”
Parkinson - Daisy’s Consumerism
“Romantic possibility was not enough for Daisy”
