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The Great Gatsby: Interpretations (AO5) - Coggle Diagram
The Great Gatsby: Interpretations (AO5)
Gatsby
Grander - Gatsby is clearly a romantic hero
Miller jr. - His dream is 'transfigured by imagined memory'
Lewis - 'The period when his love becomes most intense, however, is precisely that in which he does not see Daisy.'
Lewis - 'The romantic and fantastic nature of Gatsby's love seems extraordinary and absurd, looked at in worldy, practical terms.'
Lewis - 'Wilson and Gatsby both die by Wilson's hand, suggesting an identification... Both have aspired to marry above their social station.'
Magistrate - Through this metaphorical web (time), Nick Carraway draws us into a dialogue of participation in Jay Gatsby's attempt to 'repeat the past'.
Stavola - '(Gatsby) tries to live in a world where past, present, and future are all one'
Pearson - 'Gatsby: False prophet of the American Dream'
Decker - 'Gatsby appears in the guise of the archetypal, if somewhat misguided, self-made man in America.'
Decker - 'A story of entrepreneurial corruption.'
Stallman - 'Gatsby is a symbol of America itself.'
Cowley - 'his success comes at a corrupt time'
Tom
Lewis - [Tom and Daisy] they must cover their dissatisfactions with the distractions of the idle rich.'
Daisy
Society
Lewis - 'the world of The Great Gatsby can seem as sordid, loveless, commercial, and dead as the ash heaps presided over by the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg.'
Mellard - the 'normal' standards are reversed in the novel'
Steinbrink - '[The Great Gatsby] conveys so pervasively a sense of the fundamental paradox which give the Age its poignancy.'
Streissguth - 1920s 'was a never ending display of immoral behaviour'
Wilson and Myrtle
Jordinson - 'This is a book entirely wrapped up in time...time that is lost.'
Pelzer - 'so [Nick] he has had the benefit of time to reflect on and evaluate the experience.'