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Gatsby

"Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God--- a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that-and he must be about his father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty." Pg.28 "The tragedy here is pure confession, a supplication complete in the human note it strikes." Pg. 28"Fitzgerald could sound the depths of Gatsby's life because he himself could not conceive any other." Pg.28"Out of his own weariness and fascination with damnation he caught Gatsby's damnation, caught it as only someone so profoundly attentive to Gatsby's dream could have pierced to the self-lie behind it." Pg.28 "The book has no real scale; it does not rest on any commanding vision, nor is it in any sense a major tragedy." Pg.28"But it is a great flooding moment, a moment's intimation and penetration; and as Gatsby's disillusion becomes felt at the end it strikes like a chime through the mind." Pg. "It was as if Fitzgerald, the playboy moving with increasing despair thorough this tinsel world of Gatsby's, had reached that perfect moment, before the break of darkness and death, when the mind does really and absolutely know itself--- a moment whe


Beneatha's spraying of the apartment seems symbolic of her dissatisfaction with her surroundings. 29"His own dream of wealth meant nothing in itself; he merely wanted to buy back the happiness he had lost-Daisy, now the rich man's wife-when he had gone away to ear. Although the family has survived except for Mr. 25"Is she for whom men compare, and possessing her is the clearest sign that one has made it into that magical world. Read one improving book or magazine per week. As the play commences, the dream is not only being renewed but is tantalizingly close to becoming reality. 29 "And now there was only the wry memory of Gatsby's dream, left in that boyhood schedule of September 12, 1906, with its promise of industry and self-development - "Rise from bed.

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