JG= Gatsby, DB= Daisy Buchanan. TB= Tom Buchanan
Flanagan about Gatsby
"Gatsby lives in the world of romantic energies and colors"
AE DYSON about Gatsby
"In one sense Gatsby is the apotheosis of his rootless society... He really believes in
himself and his illusions"
Hodo ab JG
"Gatsby is the embodiment of the self-made success"
Tanner
"The green light offers Gatsby a suitably inaccessible focus for his yearning"
Kazin ab DB
VULGAR AND INHUMAN
Bewley on DB
"an emptiness that we see curdling into the viciousness of of a monstrous moral
indifference as the story unfolds'
samuels on db
"Her siren's voice was merely full of money,"
Fussell on db
'typifying feature of her role as la belle dame sans merci' (about her voice)
Fetterley on DB
"The weight that Gatsby's dream brings to bear on Daisy is unbearable"
Bewley on db inability
Daisy's significance 'lies in her failure to represent the objective correlative of
Gatsby's vision'
vogel on TB
embodiment of traditional, masculine Anglo-Saxon aristocracy
VOGEL ON TB AND JG
Tom despises "Jay Gatsby's carnivalesque parties (because) they blatantly defy
Tom's notions of racial superiority"
Vogel on overprotextiveness
Preventing Daisy, the idealized white Southern belle, frommarrying a racial alien,'
Staveley on TB
"In a world that has moved on without him in which everything has changed, Tom is
like a caged animal in his fear"
Ramos on TB
"By attempting to maintain his way of life, Tom has reduced whole people to ashes
without any thought of consequences"
O' Keefe:
"Nick has an inability to commit- we never know how much we should trust him"
O'Keefe:
"Nick has indeed fallen in love with Gatsby
Claire Stocks (2007)
"Nick wants to portray Gatsby as 'great' and to ignore or edit anything that might
undermine that image"
Tanner on nick
Flanagan about Gatsby
"Gatsby lives in the world of romantic energies and colors"
AE DYSON about Gatsby
"In one sense Gatsby is the apotheosis of his rootless society... He really believes in
himself and his illusions"
Hodo ab JG
"Gatsby is the embodiment of the self-made success"
Tanner
"The green light offers Gatsby a suitably inaccessible focus for his yearning"
Kazin ab DB
VULGAR AND INHUMAN
Bewley on DB
"an emptiness that we see curdling into the viciousness of of a monstrous moral
indifference as the story unfolds'
samuels on db
"Her siren's voice was merely full of money,"
Fussell on db
'typifying feature of her role as la belle dame sans merci' (about her voice)
Fetterley on DB
"The weight that Gatsby's dream brings to bear on Daisy is unbearable"
Bewley on db inability
Daisy's significance 'lies in her failure to represent the objective correlative of
Gatsby's vision'
vogel on TB
embodiment of traditional, masculine Anglo-Saxon aristocracy
VOGEL ON TB AND JG
Tom despises "Jay Gatsby's carnivalesque parties (because) they blatantly defy
Tom's notions of racial superiority"
Vogel on overprotextiveness
Preventing Daisy, the idealized white Southern belle, frommarrying a racial alien,'
Staveley on TB
"In a world that has moved on without him in which everything has changed, Tom is
like a caged animal in his fear"
Ramos on TB
"By attempting to maintain his way of life, Tom has reduced whole people to ashes
without any thought of consequences"
O' Keefe:
"Nick has an inability to commit- we never know how much we should trust him"
O'Keefe:
"Nick has indeed fallen in love with Gatsby
Claire Stocks (2007)
"Nick wants to portray Gatsby as 'great' and to ignore or edit anything that might
undermine that image"
Tanner on nick
