The Great Gatsby – Critics by Character
Quote Themes
Gatsby ‘Young and reckless world’ – Bennet
‘Fitzgerald seems to have had a brilliant understanding of lives that are
corrupted by greed’ - Topham
‘Gatsby progressively devitalizes Daisy’s symbolic meaning’ – Person
Nick ‘Nick is to be respected for his moral concern’ - Stallman
‘Nick is a self-isolating voyeur’ - Tanner
Daisy ‘Vulgar and inhuman - Kazin
‘Women characters are decorative characters of seemingly fragile beauty’ –
Parkinson
Tom ‘Stuck in a world that has moved on without him’ - Stavely
‘Tom has reduced whole people to ashes’ - Ramos
Myrtle ‘Frenetic quest for wealth’ – Akesson
Myrtle’s death is ‘made to embody the ebbing vigour of the 1920s’. -
McMechan
Quote Themes
Gatsby ‘Young and reckless world’ – Bennet
‘Fitzgerald seems to have had a brilliant understanding of lives that are
corrupted by greed’ - Topham
‘Gatsby progressively devitalizes Daisy’s symbolic meaning’ – Person
Nick ‘Nick is to be respected for his moral concern’ - Stallman
‘Nick is a self-isolating voyeur’ - Tanner
Daisy ‘Vulgar and inhuman - Kazin
‘Women characters are decorative characters of seemingly fragile beauty’ –
Parkinson
Tom ‘Stuck in a world that has moved on without him’ - Stavely
‘Tom has reduced whole people to ashes’ - Ramos
Myrtle ‘Frenetic quest for wealth’ – Akesson
Myrtle’s death is ‘made to embody the ebbing vigour of the 1920s’. -
McMechan
