The Great Gatsby critics quotes

1. The impressions generated by Daisy Fay's name are of sunshine. Transience and vague unreality (8, 8)
4. Nick transcribes these accounts; how much he may be requiting his sources and how much translating them - transforming, embellishing, amplifying, rewording - we can never know (4, 6)
5. I find Gatsby aesthetically overrated, psychologically vacant, and morally complacent (7, 6)
7. No woman, no human being, could ever approximate the platonic ideal he has invented (6, 1, 7)
8. Flapperdom stood for individual rebellion against the old pieties and restraints (4, 9)
9. The green light offers Gatsby a suitably inaccessible focus for his yearning (4, 6)
10. That is the American masterwork (9, 7)

2. [Gatsby comes] inevitably to stand for America itself (6, 8)
3. It's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American Dream (3, 9)
6. Their idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity and triviality, their glittering swishiness (1, 1, 7)

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