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1
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Resenberg on Daisy?

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Daisy is someone who wants to be romantic.

2
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Soyza on Daisy?

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a frivolous, seemingly naive personality who claims to be very sophisticated.

3
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Mulligan on Daisy?

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she feels like she’s living in a movie of her own life.

4
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Bewley on daisy?

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“Daisy has no substance”, representation of “emptiness”.

5
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what does the persona in Ennui do (plath)?

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“designs a future where nothing will occur”

6
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w. Lid on Daisy and AD?

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“she is the incarnation of all his elaborate fantasies, his vision of the American Dream.”

7
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S. Person on Daisy as a victim?

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“Daisy… is more victim than victimizer.”

8
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Robert Stone on the novel?

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The Great Gatsby is a novel “that is most representative of the American Condition”.

9
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Fitzgerald on the Lost generation?

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a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in men shaken.

10
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Trimalchio, a possible foil for Gatsby, and quote about the green ball?

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“The green ball fallen to the ground (foil for green light) would be too much much of a reminder of that ineluctable gravity that pulls all things back to earth, balls and dreams alike.”