Critics Quotes

Jonathan Yardley (2007)

“Fitzgerald gives us a mediation of some of this country’s most central ideas… the quest for new life, the preoccupation with class, the hunger for riches”

Clair Stocks (2007) - Nick Carraway

“Nick wants to portray Gatsby as ‘great’ and to ignore or edit anything that might undermine that image”

Alfred Kazin- Daisy Buchanan

“Vulgar and inhuman”

David O’Rourke- Nick Carraway

“Nick is considered to be quite reliable, basically honest and ultimately changed by his contact with Gatsby”

A.E Dyson- Jay Gatsby

“In one sense Gatsby is the apotheosis of his rootless society…he really believed in himself and his illusions”