Critics Flashcards
1
Q
“Gatsby is a ‘mythic’ character… because he embodies the core conflict in the American Dream, between illusion and reality”
A
Bewley
2
Q
“The imagery of decay, death and corruption infects the story and it’s hero too”
A
Herman
3
Q
Epigraph
A
Thomas Parke D’invilliers
4
Q
“a figure of tragic intensity, helplessly enmeshed in his environment”
A
Parkinson
5
Q
Hedonistic pleasure of lost generation driven by Id
A
Freudian
6
Q
Conspicuous consumption
A
Marxism
7
Q
Nihilism, existentialism
A
The Lost Generation
