Gatsby Scholarship

Question 1

New York World (contemporary)

Answer 1

‘F.Scott Fitzgerald’s latest dud’

Question 2

Fitzgerald women

Answer 2

‘the book contains no important woman character’

Question 3

Bruccoli Gatsby

Answer 3

‘Gatsby is truly great by virtue of his capacity to commit himself to his aspirations’

Question 4

Sarah Churchwell adultery

Answer 4

‘used adultery to suggest a larger world of broken promises and betrayals of faith’

Question 5

Fetterley women

Answer 5

‘another American ‘love story’ centred on hostility to women’

Question 6

Ivan Strba Myrtle

Answer 6

‘Dead, Myrtle Wilson is a victim of the callous rich’

Question 7

Ivan Strba American Dream

Answer 7

‘American Dream is corrupted for both, for it is not only the nobility that rots on the inside but also the lower class that deteriorates in attempt to attain the heights beyond sight.’

Question 8

Ivan Strba Daisy

Answer 8

‘Fitzgerald fails to develop her other than a spoilt, petulant appendage to Tom.’

Question 9

Lois Tyson minor female characters (Modern Women)

Answer 9

‘clones of a single, negative character type: shallow, exhibitionist, revolting and deceitful.’

Question 10

Lois Tyson Modern Woman

Answer 10

‘the novel finds freedom unacceptable in women’

Question 11

Lois Tyson Daisy

Answer 11

‘spoiled brat and remorseless killer’

Question 12

Lois Tyson Myrtle’s death

Answer 12

‘the most severe punishment…is meted out to the woman who threatens the patriarchy the most.’

Question 13

Lois Tyson race in the novel

Answer 13

‘one-dimensional, dehumanized ethnic characters.’ Ignoring the variety of race of the Jazz Age.

Question 14

Lois Tyson Tom

Answer 14

‘clearly the most culturally privileged character in the novel.’

Question 15

Ivan Strba

Answer 15

‘not a single female character who exhibits anything but a desire for a good time and material possessions.’

Question 16

Zachary Houle

Answer 16

‘I see this book the foreshadowing of the Great Depression’

‘Gatsby and his followers seem oblivious to the fact that the party must end sometime’

Question 17

Zachary Houle women

Answer 17

‘The Great Gatsby is a novel about the sexes, and the inequity between them’

Question 18

James Truslow Adams book

Answer 18

Coined the term ‘American Dream’ in 1931 book ‘the Epic of America.’ Believed it was achieving the fullst of what can be achieved and it being recognised by others, ‘regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.’ Became disillusioned with the materialism of the dream, believing it should be achieved through ‘communal spiritual and intellectual life’

Question 19

James Truslow Adams the American Dream

Answer 19

In the 1920s ‘the American Dream was changed into a nightmare of gambling and corruption and mad spending’

Question 20

New York Times American Dream

Answer 20

1940: ‘when people wrote of the American Dream after 1930, they meant the American mirage, the American illusion…the American lie’