The Great Gatsby CRITICS Flashcards
Mark Twain
“Failure is not the dark side of the American Dream it is the foundation of it”
Marius Bewley {Daisy}
“[Daisy has] an emptiness that we see curdling into the viciousness of a monstrous moral indifference as the story unfolds”
Leland S Person
“No woman, no human being, could ever approximate the platonic ideal he invented.”
Alfred Kazin
“{Daisy is} vulgar and inhuman”
Marius Bewley [dream]
“The Great Gatsby is an exploration of the American Dream as it exists in a corrupt period”
Mason Scisco
“he transforms Daisy herself into a thing”
Claire Stocks
‘Nick wants to portray Gatsby as ‘great’ and to ignore or edit anything that might undermine that image’
Thomas Flanagan
“Gatsby lives in the world of romantic energies and colours”
Tony Tanner
“Nick transcribes these accounts; how much he may be requiting his sources and how much translating them… we can never know”
Rena Sanderson
“Flapperdom stood for individual rebellion against the old pieties and restraints”
Andrew Carnegie
“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”
A E Dyson
“Tom’s restlessness is an arrogant assertiveness seeking to evade in bluster the deep uneasiness of self-knowledge.”
