Gatsby Scholarship Flashcards
New York World (contemporary)
‘F.Scott Fitzgerald’s latest dud’
Fitzgerald women
‘the book contains no important woman character’
Bruccoli Gatsby
‘Gatsby is truly great by virtue of his capacity to commit himself to his aspirations’
Sarah Churchwell adultery
‘used adultery to suggest a larger world of broken promises and betrayals of faith’
Fetterley women
‘another American ‘love story’ centred on hostility to women’
Ivan Strba Myrtle
‘Dead, Myrtle Wilson is a victim of the callous rich’
Ivan Strba American Dream
‘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.’
Ivan Strba Daisy
‘Fitzgerald fails to develop her other than a spoilt, petulant appendage to Tom.’
Lois Tyson minor female characters (Modern Women)
‘clones of a single, negative character type: shallow, exhibitionist, revolting and deceitful.’
Lois Tyson Modern Woman
‘the novel finds freedom unacceptable in women’
Lois Tyson Daisy
‘spoiled brat and remorseless killer’
Lois Tyson Myrtle’s death
‘the most severe punishment…is meted out to the woman who threatens the patriarchy the most.’
Lois Tyson race in the novel
‘one-dimensional, dehumanized ethnic characters.’ Ignoring the variety of race of the Jazz Age.
Lois Tyson Tom
‘clearly the most culturally privileged character in the novel.’
Ivan Strba
‘not a single female character who exhibits anything but a desire for a good time and material possessions.’
Zachary Houle
‘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’
Zachary Houle women
‘The Great Gatsby is a novel about the sexes, and the inequity between them’
James Truslow Adams book
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’
James Truslow Adams the American Dream
In the 1920s ‘the American Dream was changed into a nightmare of gambling and corruption and mad spending’
New York Times American Dream
1940: ‘when people wrote of the American Dream after 1930, they meant the American mirage, the American illusion…the American lie’
