Critics

• H.L Mencken, 1925

  • ‘only Gatsby Genuinley lives and breathes. The rest are mere marionettes’.
• Kenneth Eble, 1964

  • ‘Daisy moves away from actuality into an idea existing in Gatsby’s mind’
• Thomas Flanagan, 2000

  • ‘Gatsby lives in the world of romantic energies and colours’.
  • ’Gatsby is somewhat vague. The readers eyes can neve quite focus upon him, his outlines are dim’.
• Jacqueline Lance, 2000

  • becoming Tom was Gatsby’s dream
• Marius Bewley

  • ’Daisy has monstrous moral indifference and vicious emptiness’.
• A.E Dyson

  • ‘in one sense Gatsby is the apotheosis of his rootless society.. he really believes in himself and his delusions’.
• K.Fraser

  • ‘Daisy is torn between a desire for personal freedom and the need for stability’.
• K.Parkinson

  • ‘Daisy is only allowed to exist in the images that men create of her’.
• P.Staveley

  • ‘Gatsby, like America itself… strives to reach a place he has created in his own mind, an impossible perfect‘.