The Great Gatsby Critics Flashcards
1
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Lios Tyson
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’ a scathing critics of American capitalist culture and the ideology that it promotes’
2
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Alfred Kazin
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‘vulgar and inhuman’
3
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Claire Stocks
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’ Nick wants to portray Gatsby as ‘great’ and to ignore or edit anything that undermines that image’
4
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Leland S Person
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no women, no human being, could ever approximate the platonic ideal he has invented
5
Q
Fetterly
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Gatsbys dream weighing down Daisy is unbearable
6
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Rena Sanderson
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Flapperdom stood for individual rebellion against the old pieties and restraints
7
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Post colonial
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focus on the frequency of references in the novel to European tastes and values in order to dissolve the persistence in America of old world power and influence supposedly left behind in 17776
