Critical Comments - Gatsby 2.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? English LiteratureThe Great GatsbyA2/A-levelEdexcel Created by: Mollie Kate CohenCreated on: 30-04-13 21:07 Edwin Clark - 1950 "Glamorous story of today" 1 of 9 L.P Hartley - 1926 "Plain record of New York high life" 2 of 9 William Troy - 1945 "Grail-romance" .... "deluded youth to maturity" 3 of 9 Arthur Mizener - 1946 "Urban sophistication and culture and corruption" 4 of 9 Lev Grossman - 2005 "tragic heart of the self-made man" ... "one of the most quintessentially American novels ever written" 5 of 9 William Rose Benet - 1925 "The Great Gatsby is a disillusioned novel" 6 of 9 Burke Wilkinson - 1950 "Narrative without character is two dimensional, as Fitzgerald well knew" 7 of 9 Jason Cowley - 2000 "a sense of lost time" ... "undertone of mourning" 8 of 9 Bookrags site "Callous indifference of wealth" ... "The hollowness of the American success myth" ... "The sleaziness of the contemporary scene" 9 of 9
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