TGG Critics - How society is presented (individualism)

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Bewley
"The theme of Gatsby is the withering of the American Dream in an industrial society"
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Watkins
"To make Gatsby something beyond a mere member of the lost generation: an American who was a personification of the national dream as it has been corrupted"
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Fitzgerald
"In abandoning out dreams, we have abandoned that element which connects them with the larger dream."
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Rohrkemper (A pattern he observes in Fitzgerald's examination of America past and present)
"first it will be based in allusion; second, the allusion will suggest a diminishment, a loss of idealism , courage and valour of an earlier America, which are exchanged for the pursuit of material wealth"
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Jeffery Steinbeck
"[Gatsby] is manipulating people and circumstances to suit his necessities"
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Card 2

Front

"To make Gatsby something beyond a mere member of the lost generation: an American who was a personification of the national dream as it has been corrupted"

Back

Watkins

Card 3

Front

"In abandoning out dreams, we have abandoned that element which connects them with the larger dream."

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

"first it will be based in allusion; second, the allusion will suggest a diminishment, a loss of idealism , courage and valour of an earlier America, which are exchanged for the pursuit of material wealth"

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

"[Gatsby] is manipulating people and circumstances to suit his necessities"

Back

Preview of the back of card 5

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