Critics Quotations
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- Created on: 29-04-13 17:20
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- CRITICS QUOTATIONS A03
- The Great Gatsby
- ''His characters are so real that you have the uncanny feeling of having met them somewhere before.''- Sunday Tribute.
- ''...a novel written in pace and fine attention.''-Laurance Stallings
- ''Gatsby's dream centres on Daisy, an alluring creature who deserted him for wealth and safety in the presence of Tom Buchanan...''-E.K
- ''Tom is the sensualist of the bad-gin-and-fool-the-wife ear. Jordan is the modern girl to whom nothing is surprising any more.'' -Herbert S.Gorman
- ''..Jay Gatsby, who found an objective in life and lived and died in the pursuit of it.'' Herbert S.Gorman
- Birdsong
- john Mullan
- ''...death comes so thick that the narrative cannot pause for individuals.''
- ''... in this novel deaths cannot be handled in any conventional novelistic manner.''
- Sebastian Faulks
- ''Elizabeth existed at first to ask questions...''
- ''...a thinner, more neutral quality in the prose, to suggest what Elizabeth identifies as a ''a lack of intensity' in her modern life.''
- ''In the war sections, I tried to introduce an unstable feeling by various grammatical means...''
- ''I wanted to end with this bird because it's the redemption of Jack and the validations of Stephen's promise to Jack..''
- john Mullan
- The Great Gatsby
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