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TGG - Flanagan: ‘Gatsby is somewhat vague…
‘The reader’s eyes can never quite focus upon him, his outlines are dim’
TGG - Marius Bewley: “Daisy Buchanan has an emptines that…
‘we see curdling into the viciousness of a monstrous moral indifference’
TGG - Spearman: “It is an embodiment of…
“Marxist Soviet propaganda”
TGG - Orstein: “Fitzgerald adumbrated the coming…
“tragedy of a nation grown decadent without achieving maturity”
TGG - Callahan: “Gatsby’s feelings towards Daisy are inseparable from…
“money and possessions due to the pervasive culture of material success”
AOI - Pamlea Knights: “the novel is a memorial to…
“the extinct social order”
AOI - Max Herzberg: “Archer and May’s marriage is bound…
by the tribal code of the elite”
TGG - Jonathan Yardley: “Fitzgerald gives us a mediation on some of this country’s most central ideas…
“the quest for new life, the preoccupation with class, the hunger for riches”
TGG - Thomas Flanagan: “Gatsby lives in a world of..
“romantic energies and colours”
TGG - Edwin Clark: “Fitzgerald discloses in these people…
“a means of spirit, carelessness and absence of loyalties”
TGG - Fahey: “dream based on the assumption that…
“material possessions are synonymous with happiness, harmony and beauty”
TGG - Menchen: “their idiotic pursuit of…
“sensation, their almost incredible stupidity and trivality”
TGG- Rena Sanderson: “women are presented to…
“simply dominate the American man…a woman has no identity except in the eyes of her beholder”
AOI - Judith Fryer: “Wharton saw the repression of the…
“self in the old ways and the fragmentation of the self in the new ways”
AOI - Singley: “instinct, not reason…
“rules New York”
AOI - Nancy Bentley: “custom is an…
“always-present web of force”
AOI - Pamela Knight: “Archer locks May…
“in the virginal script he criticises”
PASSING - Joyce: “the novel is more about class…
“than it is about race”
PASSING - Wall: “In her whiteness, Clare is not free…
“she has taken on an existence that assures her emotional and spiritual captivity”
PASSING - Askew: “Irene Redfield is deeply invested in…
“her sense of authenticity as a member of the black bourgeoisie”
PASSING + TGG - Charles Lewis: “Irene and Nick…
“both possess a sense of pedigree that makes them feel superior to the main characters”
PASSING - Eva McKnight: “Through Irene, Larsen illustrates the irreparable damage…
“and self-hating effects of the white gaze”
PASSING - Eva McKnight: “the priviledged paleness that these two women share…
leaves them in a racial limbo, cursed in their ethnic fluidity”
American man - Alan Houston
“the survival of the American man depends on the rediscovery of primal masculinity”
GOW - Taliawaite: “By ending the novel this way, Steinbeck continues his literary references to…
“the Bible as it provides symbolic resurrection of humanity and steps towards societies regrowth"
GOW - Fielder: “The ending is…
“simply symbolic and does little to resolve the otherwise realistic novel”
GOW - Peter Salwen: “Jim is the…
“moral centre of the book”
TGG - Paul Stavely: “Like America itself, Gatsby has lost sight of…
“his original ideas and strives to reach a place of impossible perfection”
American Freedom - Pinsker: “Freedom is America’s…
“abiding subejct, as well as its deepest problem”
AOI - Joslin: “Newland is an…
“armchair feminist”
TGG - Jay McInerney: “In its barest outline, TGG is…
“a love story”
GOW - Malcolm Cowley: “What one remembers most of all is Steinbeck’s…
“sympathy for the migrants”
American Dream - Apess and Douglas: “the American Dream is America's…
"self-generated mythology”
Faith - Peter Lisca: “out of the profoundest depth of despair…
“comes the greatest assertion of faith"
TGG - Kathleen Parkinson: “[Gatsby epitomises] the ethic of individual enterprise…
“in a land of boundless opportunities”
Jeffrey Steinbrink: [Gatsby] “adopts the myth of regeneration…
“as the single sustaining principle of his existence”
Paul MacKenderick: “[Gatsby] devoted his whole corrupt life…
“to the realising of his incorruptible dream”
Kathleen Parkinson: "Daisy's role as the jewel in Tom's social crown…
“demands that she remain passive”
Kathleen Parkinson: "Daisy's superficial charm conceals…
“a deep moral emptiness"
Frederick Carpenter: "the family remains…
“the fundamental unit”