ModernLibraryTop100 Flashcards
Unnamed black narrarator struggling with black identity in Harlem
Invisible Man (1952)
Written as a parallel to the Odyssey
Ulysees (1922)
worships Henry Ford (e.g. “Our Ford” instead of “Our Lord”, and the year 632 AF (After Ford))
Brave New World (1932)
Chester Gillette murdered Grace Brown on Big Moose Lake
An American Tragedy (1925)
“It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him”
Catch-22 (1961)
Billy Pilgrim
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Joseph Heller
Catch-22 (1961)
The Joads trapped in the Dust Bowl, move from OK to CA on Route 66 during the Great Depression, doesn’t end well
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Jim Casy
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Jay Gatsby
The Great Gatsby (1925)
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Bigger Thomas
Native Son (1940)
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Major Major Major Major
Catch-22 (1961)
“War is Peace”, “Freedom is Slavery”, “Ignorance is Strength”
1984 (1949)
The only solution to the prolem is denied by a circumstance in the problem
Catch-22 (1961)
a black American 20 yo lives in poverty in Chicago slum and commits crimes “because he’s a product of society’s view towards blacks”, executed
Native Son (1940)
George Orwell
1984 (1949)
June 16 - Bloomsday
Ulysees (1922)
Yossarian and other bombadiers try to keep sane on Mediterranean island so they can return home during WW II
Catch-22 (1961)
Ministry of Truth
1984 (1949)
Clyde Griffiths gets Roberta pregnant, falls in love with rich girl Sondra, lets Roberta drown, is executed
An American Tragedy (1925)
Jazz Age / Roaring Twenties
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Eric Blair
1984 (1949)
Daisy Buchanan
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tom Buchanan
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Stanley Kubrick
Lolita (1955)
Yossarian tries to plead insanity to keep from flying
Catch-22 (1961)
Stepehen rebels against Catholic/Irish conventions in Dublin and leaves for Paris
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)