The Great Gatsby AO5 Flashcards
Cyril Connolly indicates the contrast between Fitzgerald’s style and message
Cyril Connolly ‘Fitzgerald style sings with hope but his messages despair’
what does Marriott assert about the novel and society
“novel depicts a society careening towards destruction”
what does McRae assert about everything in the novel?
Everything in the novel has a contradiction flipside; an affirmation -it is always kicked out from under us
McRae on Nick
“He pretends to be trying to help us try to understand Gatsby but really he is trying to work out how to understand himself”
what does McRae assert Fitzgerald is revealing in relation to History
Fitzgerald is trying to reveal the history of how America got to 1920s
the Great Gatsby reveals how the invaders raped that paradise and raped nature -the violence done to the world by uncaring humanity
Brucolli on Gatsby
“Gatsby portrays and is betrayed by the promises of America”
what does Saywood point in relation to the structure of the novel and implications of such
points out that Social gatherings are the structure of the novel so we see social life as important but relationships in this social life are shallow and chaotic
what does MacDonald point out about attitudes in the novel
points out that attitudes put wealth and materialism over things of spiritual values
MacDonald on Gatsby
points out that Gatsby is a fraud and a showman. he passed himself off as something that he isn’t. his character is emblematic of the jazz age -if you scratch the surface you find something cheap underneath. Gatsby is further socially naive as he is unable to realise the insincerity of others – overall Gatsby is emblematic of the 20s as there is something corrupt and unwholesome underpinning the success
what does MacDonald suggest the novel is indicating about Gatsby’s dream and the American dream
indicates that Gatsby’s image of Daisy is a hopelessly Romantic and idolised version and the novel exposes Gatsby dream as a hollow and misguided one. In the real world the objects are desires don’t live up to our expectations dreams are and desires are built on unreality overall the novel is a critique of the American dream as it is exposed as wealth obsessed. relates to the presentation of Daisy as well as she is very materialistic herself the appeal she has to do with his money her voice is full of money and so money is part of her charm
views of other critics on the American dream and Gatsby
The dream is based on success and success can come at all costs
-it is indicated that Gatsby’s tragic flaw is that he impresses everyone but Daisy
‘Fitzgerald has written a novel about failure as if it was a novel of success’
Gatsby is America
what does Weston state about the glamour presented in the novel
‘there is a dark underbelly to showy glamour that we see’
Brucolli - suprising factor of TGG
Great Gatsby “contains surprisingly little in the way of sociological and anthropological detail”
Weston points out about the alternative title of TGG
The alternative title of The Great Gatsby highlights the duality of the 1920s and the novel
McRae on the contradictory nature of the novel
McRae ‘Almost anything that happens, unhappens. what is stated is contradicted’ throughout the novel the final line is trying to go forward but being dragged back
McRae points out what about about Nick and the moral message of the play
Points out that Nick doesn’t give us a moral there are no easy answers
what does Kearns point out about American literature
The first American heroes in literature often not who they appear to be
what does Kearns point out about the 1920s and other contextual information
Points out that the 1920s is an age of intolerance, indulgence and invention - the KKK hit its peak in membership in 1925
Kearns points out something in relation to wealth and religion
“Money is the new religion” In America
Lawes on women in TGG
Points out that women look free in their little dresses but they are sleeping with people for money as shown by the presentation of Myrtle
-2 sides to women- are they victims of themselves, their decisions , their society, of the rich, of men
what does Lawes point out about the emotions of the characters in the novel
nobody in this novel is happy and argues that Daisy’s daughter/ Pammy is the loneliest child or saddest child in American literature
what connection does Lawes point ot between Gatsby and Myrtle
Myrtle was the only person about whom Fitzgerald uses the word ‘vitality’ other than Gatsby -both were trapped in constraints and traditional roles
what does Saywood point out in relation to Daisy
points out the difference in emotion that Daisy experience in relation to a child and her emotions to a pile of shirts
views of feminist critics
believes that Daisy is used as a scapegoat goat for our anger and Feminist critics further assert that myrtle’s death and the attack of her body is a punishment for women as a whole
a CRITICS (unknown name) assertion in relation to Daisy
Asserts that Daisy is like her name -gold at the centre
