Critical Comments - Gatsby

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Edwin Clark - 1950
"Glamorous story of today"
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L.P Hartley - 1926
"Plain record of New York high life"
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William Troy - 1945
"Grail-romance" .... "deluded youth to maturity"
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Arthur Mizener - 1946
"Urban sophistication and culture and corruption"
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Lev Grossman - 2005
"tragic heart of the self-made man" ... "one of the most quintessentially American novels ever written"
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William Rose Benet - 1925
"The Great Gatsby is a disillusioned novel"
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Burke Wilkinson - 1950
"Narrative without character is two dimensional, as Fitzgerald well knew"
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Jason Cowley - 2000
"a sense of lost time" ... "undertone of mourning"
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"Callous indifference of wealth" ... "The hollowness of the American success myth" ... "The sleaziness of the contemporary scene"
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"Plain record of New York high life"

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L.P Hartley - 1926

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"Grail-romance" .... "deluded youth to maturity"

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"Urban sophistication and culture and corruption"

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"tragic heart of the self-made man" ... "one of the most quintessentially American novels ever written"

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As they say; money is the anthem of success, everybody knows it its the facts, kiss and kiss! "Lana Rey"

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