An unreliable narrator ... makes for stronger demand on the reader's power of inference
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Tony Tanner
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
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Tony Tanner
The green light offers Gatsby a suitably inaccessible focus for his yearning
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Rena Sanderson
Flapperdom stood for individual rebellion against the old pieties and restraints
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Lionel Trilling
[Gatsby comes] inevitably to stand for America itself
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William Rose Bennett
The queer charm, colour, wonder and drama of a young and restless world
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Jeffrey Steinbrink
Moments of happiness or triumph from the past can neither be recaptured nor repeated, and for that reason seldom can they be forgotten
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Leland S Pearson
No woman, no human being, could ever approximate the platonic ideal he has invented
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Michelle McMechan
The impressions generated by Daisy Fay's name are of sunshine. Transience and vague unreality
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H. L. Menchen
Their idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity and triviality, their glittering swishiness
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F Scott Fitzgerald
[My aim was to] write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned
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Johnathan Yardley
That is the American masterwork
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Kathryn Schulz
I find Gatsby aesthetically overrated, psychologically vacant, and morally complacent
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Jay McInerney
It's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American Dream
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Jay McInerney
Without Fitzgerald's poetry, without the editorial consciousness of Fitzgerald's narrator Nick Carraway, the story can seem threadbare and melodramatic
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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
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Tony Tanner
Card 3
Front
The green light offers Gatsby a suitably inaccessible focus for his yearning
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Card 4
Front
Flapperdom stood for individual rebellion against the old pieties and restraints
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Card 5
Front
[Gatsby comes] inevitably to stand for America itself
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