The Great Gatsby critics quotes

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Q M I C H E L L E M C M E C H A N L J H D
J E F F R E Y S T E I N B R I N K L T E B
W C B L E L A N D S P E A R S O N T B W W
D Z N L V G B T X F N I D E G D E T J I S
J L B H W T J M X J K A H O L N X H O C H
A U P T H Q R M C F T X X A N G F O H G N
Y H Q H D L F K H F G X R E P N U M N X I
M C Q O L W M U S O P E B S X I U A A C A
C S T L O P E I M F G E H M W L U S T V H
I N O L D R W A U Z S U N J X L K B H U A
N Y I S S Q P J T O L C U X R I P O A M K
E R T K I D S I R T A A Y H H R D Y N A W
R H H P P Y F M C V B T V I F T W L Y S H
N T Y V N T A X U U T B I K F L O E A M H
E A N T T I D S Q G B M O V A E D R R N N
Y K K O L Q R F H X L Q O U N N B F D A P
Q I C L J T K D B Q E X Y F I O Q A L R Q
I S I B J T T L J G B D V V G I S H E F V
F W Q W K B A X Q T N I W Q X L W B Y D W
S P U B F G N L S S F L K F I S F K C G F
W B E V N X W X U U G N P K I X M J I C T

Clues

  • [Gatsby comes] inevitably to stand for America itself (6, 8)
  • [My aim was to] write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned (1, 5, 10)
  • An unreliable narrator ... makes for stronger demand on the reader's power of inference (6, 5)
  • I find Gatsby aesthetically overrated, psychologically vacant, and morally complacent (7, 6)
  • It's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American Dream (3, 9)
  • Moments of happiness or triumph from the past can neither be recaptured nor repeated, and for that reason seldom can they be forgotten (7, 10)
  • No woman, no human being, could ever approximate the platonic ideal he has invented (6, 1, 7)
  • That is the American masterwork (9, 7)
  • The impressions generated by Daisy Fay's name are of sunshine. Transience and vague unreality (8, 8)
  • The queer charm, colour, wonder and drama of a young and restless world (7, 4, 7)

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