"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

"The play dramatizes the efforts and frustrations of a family in pursuits of the American Dream." (www ) The title of the play is itself an allusion to this theme. The sixty-year-old matriarch of the family, Mrs. Younger (mama), came north with her husband years before the play begins in order to fulfill the American Dream for her children. Although the family has survived except for Mr. Younger, who died of over work, dreams of leisure. As the play commences, the dream is not only being renewed but is tantalizingly close to becoming reality.

"Is she for whom men compare, and possessing her is the clearest sign that one has made it into that magical world." Pg. 25

"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.......Study electricity ..... Work... Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it....Read one improving book or magazine per week." Pg.29

n 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

"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

Beneatha's dream differs from Mama's in that Beneatha's dream is in many more ways self-serving. In her desire to "express herself," and to become a doctor, Beneatha is an early feminist who radically views her role as self-oriented and not family-oriented. Beneatha's spraying of the apartment seems symbolic of her dissatisfaction with her surroundings. She wants to rid herself and her family of what she later refers to as "acute ghetto-itis." It is obvious that Beneatha is not proud of her family's economic and soci

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