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 when only those who have lived by Gatsby's great illusion, lived by the tinsel and the glamour, can feel the terrible force of self betrayal." Pg.29
             "This was the playboy's rare apotheosis, and one all the more moving precisely because all of Gatsby's life was summed up in it, precisely because his decline and death gave a meaning to his life that it had not in itself possessed." Pg.29
             "Fitzgerald seems to say to us, of how little Gatsby wanted at bottom-not to understand society, but to ape it; not to compel the world, but to live in it." Pg.29
             "His own dream of wealth ...

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