Ao5

Question 1

Gray- The East

Answer 1

‘become for them a new frontier…neutral space in which dreams of wealth, measureless power and mobility may be realised’.

Question 2

Stern- Falsehood of American Dream

Answer 2

‘How hard it is to be an American, enticed by your nation, only to have to grow up at last and settle for the cold limitations of history’

Question 3

Bradbury

Answer 3

‘A story of a careless, materially privileged society build upon a sterile world.’

Question 4

Lid- Daisy

Answer 4

‘incarnation of all his elaborate fantasies, his vision of the American Dream.’

Question 5

Baker- Relationship change between Gastby and Daisy

Answer 5

[Early love of G and D} ‘innocent and true’
[End of the Book] ‘tawdry and ruined. Stained by blood, stained by adultery, stained by her equivocations and shady lies’

Question 6

Anderson on AD and Gatsby’s death

Answer 6

‘If he embodies the potential of the American Dream, then he also illustrates its limitations: here is a man, let’s not forget, whose end is destined to be as pointless as it is violent.’

Answer 7

Maybe it’s not the champagne and the dancing, maybe it is those feelings of wondering where we are, the sense that anything can crumble at any moment, that keep Gatsby meaningful – Michael Farris Smith

Question 8

Cain

Answer 8

(American Dream) “they give up all too much to try to achieve that great success,” Cain

Question 9

What is Gatsby’s career in bootlegging a metaphor of

Answer 9

Gatsby as a counterfiet person