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Tang Soo Ping 1980 |
"Nick, unlike the others, belongs to the world of normal, uncomplicated routine." "His death is almost insignificant for Gatsby is already spiritually dead." (on Eckleburg) "This image of the eyes is also a comment on faulty vision (...) one cannot see beyond the immediate and superficial" "Gatsbys idealism is itself given a religious, almost divine significance in the way in which he is presented a a God like figure."
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Kathleen Parkinsonism (1987) |
Gatsby, most of all, embodies the duality of American experience, but it is Nick who confronts the issues that this raises. |
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Jay McInerny 2012 |
"Fitzgerald manages to strike a balance between his attraction and judgement." "he seems capable of viewing character from inside and outside." |
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Kate Maurer 2015 |
By creating distinct social classes - old money, money, no money - Fitzgerald sends strong messages about the elitism running through every strata of society |
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Robert Mccrum 2014 |
"The plot, ripped from the pages of a tabloid and crossed with a romantic novelette, has the potency of cheap music." "it's a prose poem, an elegy to the authors lost love, a hymn to.the anxieties of the American Dream." "the great gatsby becomes a tantalising metaphor for the eternal mystery of art." "There was no second act, just as Fitzgerald had predicted, no second act in this American life. Just immortality." |
