MENCKEN:
- 'no more than a glorified anecdote'
- 'Only Gatsby himself genuinely lives and breathes'
- 'Their idiotic pursuit of sensation' (in relation to the lives of the rich)
THE PINK ELEPHANT, THE GUARDIAN:
- 'a reflection on the hollowness of a life of leisure'
- 'Gatsby wants to create a beautiful future by restoring the past'
- 'Fitzgerald highlights the horrors of being a careless person'
O'NEILL:
- Fitzgerald explores 'our enormous capacity to dream, to imagine, to hope and to persevere.'
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