The Great Gatsby - AO5 Readings

Question 1

Bradbury

Answer 1

[The Great Gatsby] ‘Is a story of a careless, materially privileged society built upon a sterile world’

Question 2

Gray

Answer 2

‘A story about the reinvention of the self’

Question 3

Tanner

Answer 3

‘Fitzgerald wants to show America desecrated, mutilated, violated… Of what might have been a wonderland… We have made a wasteland’

Question 4

Churchwell

Answer 4

‘Daisy is playing at love - she offers gestures, not emotions. She was raised among the same aristocracy that Edith Wharton described as a world in which people with emotions were not visited.’

Question 5

Fetterley

Answer 5

‘Daisy’s failure of Gatsby is symbolic of the failure of America to live up to the expectations of the men who ‘discovered’ it. America is female; to be American is male; and the quintessential American experience is betrayal by women’

Question 6

[The Great Gatsby] is a story about a careless, materially privileged society, built upon a sterile world

Answer 6

Bradbury

Question 7

A story about the reinvention of the self

Answer 7

Gray

Question 8

Fitzgerald wants to show America desecrated, mutilated, violated… of what might have been a wonderland… we have made a wasteland

Answer 8

Tanner

Question 9

Daisy plays at love, she offers gestures not emotions. She was raised in the same aristocracy that Edith Wharton described as a world in which people with emotions were not visited

Answer 9

Churchwell

Question 10

Daisy’s failure at Gatsby is symbolic of the failure of America of meeting the expectations of the men who ‘discovered’ it. America is female, to be American is male and the quintessential American experience is betrayal by women

Answer 10

Fetterley