 | 1925 - 194 pages
...unsuccessful farm people—his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that 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,... | |
 | Steven G. Kellman - Education - 1980 - 188 pages
...unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. 29 The future belongs to bastards and orphans because they choose it to and because, rejecting the... | |
 | Robert R. Sherman, Rodman B. Webb - Education - 1988 - 232 pages
...180). What, indeed, happens when the American Dream sounds only 'like money', when the dreamer feels he 'must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty' (p. 99)? What is the end-in-view of our teaching? How do we educate an informed public? What, in the... | |
 | Peter Funke - Cross-cultural studies - 1989 - 334 pages
...which he sprang. "His imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from...Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God." (p. 99) His ritualistic name change at age seventeen (from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby), indeed, suggests... | |
 | Henry Idema - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 278 pages
...farm people — his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from...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,... | |
 | F. Scott Fitzgerald - Fiction - 1991 - 288 pages
...farm people — his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang...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,*... | |
 | Arnold Weinstein - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 362 pages
...farm people— his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself (99). There is doubtless no more perfect piece of Americana in all of literature. Horatio Alger, rags-to-riches,... | |
 | Daniel Royot - United States - 1993 - 252 pages
...there never was a Jay Gatsby. There was James Gatz from the dreary plains of North Dakota, Gatsby « 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,... | |
 | E. Miller Budick - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 308 pages
...birth altogether: "He was the 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. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent,... | |
 | Bryan R. Washington - Literary Collections - 1995 - 196 pages
...Gatsby 's ambiguous ancestry, his questionable past, is intolerable to Nick begins to make sense. To say that "Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself" (99) is to confirm that he is the worst kind of outsider. Gatsby, unlike Daisy and Tom (Nick's distant... | |
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The truth was that 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,... 
