The Great Gatsby Critics Flashcards

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Mark Twain said that

“Failure isn’t the….

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Failure isn’t the dark side of he American Dream it is the foundation of it

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Trask stated that

“Gatsby was alone….

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Gatsby was alone in death as he was in life

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Sebastián Falth said that

“The buchanans seem to

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The Buchanans seem to live without goals or ambitions

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Beckrags said that

“The Great Gatsby extends and

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The great Gatsby extend and synthesises the callous indifference of wealth, the hollowness of the American Dream

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Lionel Trilling once said that:

Gatsby comes to

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Gatsby comes to stand for America itself

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Q

Magnum stated that:

God has been replaced by…

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God has been replaced by fading signs of American materialism

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Kathleen said that:

Myrtle devours George or….

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Mettle devours George or drained him sexually and certainly dominated him

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