“This patient romantic hopefulness against existing conditions symbolizes Gatsby”
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William Rose Benet - 1925
“The queer charm, colour, wonder and drama of a young and wreckless world”
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H.L Mencken - 1925
“Their idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity and triviality, their glittering swinishness—these are the things that go into his book.”
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Claire Stocks - 2007
‘Even in America, Fitzgerald seems to suggest, society is strictly ordered, and for the elite to retain their exclusive position at the top of the hierarchy, those below them must also remain in their proper place.’
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Thomas Flanagan - 2000
‘Gatsby lives in the world of romantic energies and colors, a world shaped as a conspiracy between himself and the writer who has been creating him.’
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A. E. Dyson
In one sense Gatsby is the apotheosis of his rootless society. His background is cosmopolitan, his past a mystery, his temperament that of an opportunist entirely oblivious to the claims of people of the world outside…. He really believes in himself
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David O’Rourke - 1982, The International Fiction Review, Centennial College
“Nick is considered quite reliable, basically honest, and ultimately changed by his contact with Gatsby.”
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F.S.Fitzgerald
“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat … the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure…but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”
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A. E. Dyson
“Tom’s restlessness is an arrogant assertiveness seeking to evade in bluster the deep uneasiness of self-knowledge. His hypocrisy and lack of human feeling make him the most unpleasant character in the book, but he is also, when it comes to the point
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Harold Bloom
‘So much of the meaning in Gatsby comes out of imagery, it’s texture and the complexity of it’s motives’
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Matthew Bruccoli
‘It is one of those novels that so richly evokes the texture of their time’
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R.W.Stallman
‘Nick is to be respected for his moral concern’
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Life Magazine - 1925
“Fantastic proof that chivalry, of a sort, is not dead.”
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Thomas Flanagan
“Gatsby is somewhat vague. The reader’s eyes can never quite focus upon him, his outlines are dim”
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
“The queer charm, colour, wonder and drama of a young and wreckless world”
Back
William Rose Benet - 1925
Card 3
Front
“Their idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity and triviality, their glittering swinishness—these are the things that go into his book.”
Back
Card 4
Front
‘Even in America, Fitzgerald seems to suggest, society is strictly ordered, and for the elite to retain their exclusive position at the top of the hierarchy, those below them must also remain in their proper place.’
Back
Card 5
Front
‘Gatsby lives in the world of romantic energies and colors, a world shaped as a conspiracy between himself and the writer who has been creating him.’
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