Great Gatsby Critics Flashcards
Qilliam Rose Bent
“The Great Gatsby is a disillusioned novel, noel with pace…. a novel of admirable control”
The Observer 1926
“Weak characters and strong circumstances”
Judith fetterley
“Centred on hostility to women.. not dead gatsby but surviving Daisy is the object of the novels hostility and its scapegoat”
Keneth Bruffee
“Seduce the reader into sharing first his illusion and then his disillusionment”
Jason Cowley
“locating happiness in the search for a sensation rather than its realisation”
The observer
“colour green… colour of money certainly, and the money that says go”
Richard Lehan
“inverted myth of the west… conflict between civilisation and the wilderness”
sarah churchwell
“a time of turmoil and reinvention for all participants”
Christine Ramos
“by attempting to maintain his way of life , tom reduces people to ashes”
Rena sanderson
the flapper is “spoiled, sexually liberated, self centred, fun loving and magnetic”
Parkinson
“Serves as a grotesque symbol, the valley of ashes represents the grim underside” of America
Fitzgerald, ‘Echoes of the Jazz Age’ (war)
something had to be done with all the nervous energy stored up and unexpended in the War
A.E. Dyson
Tom’s restlessness is an arrogant assertiveness seeking to evade in bluster the deep uneasiness of self-knowledge
Tony Cavender
Daisy is superficial and affected, Jordan cool and aloof, Myrtle coarse and vulgar
E. C. Bufkin
Gatsby is Myrtle’s double, her quest for social mobility mirrors his own and their relationship to the Buchanans are the same (seeing them as objects of wealth) They are both victims
Fitzgerald, ‘Echoes of the Jazz Age’ (Causes)
we were tired of Great Causes
First cinematic adaptation
-A silent film produced in 1926
-The actor for Nick praised for his skill
- Fitzgerald and Zelda walked out halfway through
Fitzgerald, ‘Echoes of the Jazz Age’ (age)
It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire
Judith fetterley 2
“Ownership of women is invoked as the index of power: he who possesses Daisy Fay is the most powerful boy.”
Plants and charcaters
Tom Buchanan- ‘Willie buchanan’ Astilbe represents patience and dedication to a beloved one.
Daisy- radiance and sunshine, also purity and innocence
Myrtle- sacred tree of Aphrodite (goddess of love) and Adonis (god of beauty and desire)
Nick carraway- symbolism faithfulness (loyalty)
Churchwell
“Although he can make money, Gatsby can’t make destiny”
McInereny
“Gatsby’s story mirrors Fitzgerald’s- a poor boy who performs heroic feats to win the hand of a princess”
Dr Wulick
George is ‘resigned to his working class life’
