THE GREAT GATSBY

• 'a grotesque fairground attraction doll' 


  Michelle McMehan on Myrtle
• 'Gatsby is the tragedy of a romanticist in a materialist society' because the 'concepts of American civilization decieve him, convince him that money can buy the ideal life of his dreams and illusions.' 


  John Kuehl
• 'Her orgasmic response to Gatsby's shirts is also ironic and absurd, in that she shows more emotion for his possessions than fror him. But, in fact, Gatsby becomes his possessions here, and his display of clothing a symbolic sexual act.' 


  Ross Posnock
• 'surrouned by vulgar, mass produced decore, [myrtle] is a mockery of everything she aspires to imitate... she resembles Jay Gatsby, whose self-invention parodies Benjamins Franklin's succes story of hard work and moral self-invention.' 


  Sanderson
• 'wealth brutalized by selfishness and arragone.'


  Malcolm Cowley on Tom
• 'what nick sees as unimportant, we see as appalling irrespnsibility.' 


  Boyle
• ‘the story of america is the story of a moon that never rose‘ Fitzgerald
• 'she represents illusion itself, the illusion of everything...' rena sanderson
• “Her orgasmic response to Gatsby’s shirts is also ironic and absurd'

  Ross Posnock about Daisy
• 'tom buchanan is wealth brutalized by selfishness and arragonce' malcolm cowley.
• 'a spectator in search of a performer' tony tanner on nick buchanan
• 'she is a mockery of everything she aspires to imitate'

  rena sanderson on myrtle
• 'he wants to show america desecrated, mutilated, violated' tony tanner
• The critical recption was originally negative, critics noting there was 'no important development of his characters and many other titles would be equally appropriate.'

  'The clown Fitzgerald rushes to his death in just nine short chapters.'
• Daisy is an illusion of everything 'admirable, authentic, desirable and unattainable'
• 'The clown Fitzgerald rushes to his death in just nine short chapters.' Critic on Gatsby