Gatsby 'comes inevitably to stand for America itself'
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Taylor S. Murtaugh
Nick was 'able to resist the temptation of material wealth that crept into the understanding of the American Dream' (why we should trust him)
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William Rose Bennet
'the queer charm, colour, wonder and drama of a young and reckless world'
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Jonathan Yardly
'Fitzgerald gives us mediation on some of this country's most central ideas... the quest for new life, the preoccupation with class, the hunger for riches'
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David O'Rourke
'Nick is considered to be quite reliable, basically honest and ultimately changed by his contact with Gatsby'
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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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Alfred Kazin
Daisy is 'vulgar and unhuman'
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Christine Ramos
'Tom has reduced whole people to ashes without any though of consequences'
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H.L. Menecken
'only Gatsby himself genuinly lives and breathes. The rest are mere marionettes'
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Kathleen Parkinson
'in all his fiction women characters are decorative characters of seemingly fragile beauty'
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Edwin Clark
'they are dumb in their insensitive selfishness'
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Nick was 'able to resist the temptation of material wealth that crept into the understanding of the American Dream' (why we should trust him)
Back
Taylor S. Murtaugh
Card 3
Front
'the queer charm, colour, wonder and drama of a young and reckless world'
Back
Card 4
Front
'Fitzgerald gives us mediation on some of this country's most central ideas... the quest for new life, the preoccupation with class, the hunger for riches'
Back
Card 5
Front
'Nick is considered to be quite reliable, basically honest and ultimately changed by his contact with Gatsby'
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