English Paper 2 Flashcards
(10 cards)
RW Stallman on Gatsby
“Gatsby is a modern Icarus”
Kronenberger on ‘Grapes of Wrath’
“Document of protest and compassion”
Alan Yucas on ‘Grapes of Wrath’
“Steinbeck did not want us to lose hope, he wanted us to get angry at those who would strip hope from us”
Haslam on Ma
“The family’s core”
H.L Mencken on ‘The Great Gatsby’ characters
“Idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity”
Cavender on Myrtle Wilson
“A pathetic figure desperate to escape her conflicted circumstances”
Motley on the Joads
“The Joad family shifts from a patriarchal structure to a predominantly matriarchal one”
Kazin on Daisy Buchannan
“vulgar and inhuman”
Collins on Steinbeck
“Tied to the Marxist loom” (Marxism = conflict between social classes)
Reynolds on Nick Carraway
“He is both a symptom and an analyst of a class based society”
