The Great Gatsby
TheGreatGatsby-经典台词
The Great Gatsby-经典台词1.盖茨比比以前任何时候都深切地感受到了财富所能赐予青春的魅力和它所能持有的神秘，感受到了锦衣靓饰的清新怡人，意识到了像银子似的发着熠熠光彩的黛西，安然傲倨于劳苦人为生活所做的拼死斗争之上。
Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.2.他经过慢慢追索才来到了这片蓝色的草地上，他的梦想一定已经离得他如此之近以至于他几乎不会抓不到它了。
他不知道他的梦想已经被甩在了他的身后，已经隐藏在了城市以外的冥蒙之中，在那里共和国的黑暗的土地在黑夜中延伸着……He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.3.从这话里，除了能窥测出他对这一无法衡量出的情事之紧张的思考程度，还能推断出什么呢？What could you make of that, except to suspect some intensity in his conception of the affair that couldn’t be measured?4.月光渐渐升高，显得渺小的房屋开始融入这溶溶的月色中去，此时我的眼前逐渐浮现出这座古老的岛屿当年在荷兰航海者眼中的那种妖娆风姿——一个新世界的翠绿欲滴胸膛。
伟大的盖茨比 the great gatsby
Everything seemed to be feasible through modern technology. New technologies, especially automobiles, moving pictures and radio proliferated “modernity” to a large part of the population.
Characters and their relationships
Daisy
ex-lover
murderer
Gatsby
neighbor husband
Wilson
wife
Nick
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previous plots
• 第一章 “我”初到西卵，与黛西、汤姆及贝克共进晚餐； • 第二章 初见汤姆情妇茉特尔； • 第三章 受邀参加宴会，初识盖茨比； • 第四章 了解到盖茨比与黛西之间的往事； • 第五章 在“我”的帮助下，盖茨比与黛西最终相见； • 第六章 黛西与汤姆参加盖茨比的宴会；
What if?
• What will happen if gatsby didn't tell Tom the relationship between Daisy and him?
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• 2.What does Gatsby say Daisy’s voice like? (B) • A.music • B.money • C.the ocean • a telephone
• 3.What does Gatsby want from his relationship with Daisy? (C) • A.He is satisfied if Daisy leaves his husband. • B.He is satisfied if Daisy and himself remain lovers, although he is fine with Daisy remaining married to Tom. • C.He is satisfied only if Daisy renounces（声明放弃）any feelings for Tom and says that she has never loved Tom. • D.One meeting was enough for Gatsby; his dream has been fulfilled.
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I've seen the world, lit it up as my stage now 目睹世界，舞台聚光 Channeling angels in the new age now 粉墨登场，年代转化 Hot summer days, rock and roll 白日盛夏，摇滚震耳欲响 The way you'd play for me at your show 你华装登场，独为我而唱 And all the ways I got to know Your pretty face and electric soul 精致脸庞，魂灵不羁狂妄，你华装登场，我一睹难忘 Will you still love me when I'm no longer yound and beautiful 当年华老去，容颜不再，你是否爱我如初，直到地久天 长？
人物关系图
• 我年纪还轻，阅历不深的时候，我父亲教 导过我一句话，我至今还念念不忘。“每逢 你想要批评任何人的时候，”他对我说， “你就记住，这个世界上所有的人，并不是 个个都有过你拥有的那些优越的条件。 • 于是我们继续奋力向前，逆水行舟，被不 断向后推，被推入过去。
如果没有与《了不起的盖茨比》相遇，我写出来的小说会 与现在完全不同，或许什么都不写。 ——村上春树
When he comes tell me that you'll let me 让他随行，让他进场 Father tell me if you can 神灵请给我回答 All that grace, all that body all that face makes me wanna party 优雅气场，让我沉沦疯狂 He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds 他是太阳，他的光芒，让我如钻石夺目，璀璨闪亮
THE_GREAT_GATSBY_ 了不起的盖茨比
Hemingway saw a democratic world where people were measured by their ability, not by what they owned. Fitzgerald saw the deep differences
between groups of people that money creates. He decided to be among the rich.
The Great Gatsby
• The setting of The Great Gatsby is New York City and Long Island during the 1920s. • Nick Carraway, the narrator, is a young Princeton man, who works as a bond broker in Manhattan. He becomes involved in the life of his neighbor at Long Island.
The life of the title character,
Jay Gatsby, has been compared to Fitzgerald’s life.
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Master works
Novels: This Side of Paradise 1920 The Beautiful and Damned 1922 The Great Gatsby 1925 Tender Is the Night 1934 The Last Tycoon (最后一个大亨) 1941 Short story collections: Flappers and Philosophers 1920 Tales of the Jazz Age 1922 All the SadYoung Men 1926
美国文学选读 The Great Gatsby 分析
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1890 - 1940)II. His masterpiece: The Great Gatsby1.The story summary:The entire story takes place in one summer in 1922.The novel describes the life and death of Jay Gatsby, as seen through the eyes of a narrator who does not share the same point of view as the fashionable people around him.The narrator learns that Gatsby became rich by breaking the law. Gatsby pretends to be a well-educated war hero, which he is not, yet the narrator portrays（描绘）him as being far more noble than the rich, cruel, stupid people among whom he and Gatsby live.Gatsby’s character is purified by a deep, unselfish love for Daisy, a beautiful, silly woman who, earlier, married a rich husband instead of Gatsby and moved into high society.Gatsby has never lost his love for her and, in an era when divorce has become easy, he tries to win her back by becoming rich himself. He does not succeed, and in the end he is killed by accident because of his determination to shield Daisy from disgrace.None of Gatsby’s upper class friends come to his funeral. The narrator is so disgusted that he leaves New York and returns to his original home.Chapter NineNick makes plans for the funeral.Gatsby's Funeral, three people show up.Nick returns to the west.Nick meets with Tom BuchananNick gets a last view of Gatsby's house.小说表面上是一个爱情故事，但实际却是对社会现状的讽刺批判。
(完整版)thegreatgatsby(了不起的盖茨比)英文介绍及赏析
The Great Gatsby F。
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FitzgeraldContextFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key，the author of The Star-Spangled Banner。
Fitzgerald was raised in St。
Paul， Minnesota. Though an intelligent child， he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Despite being a mediocre student there, he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913. Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated， instead enlisting in the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end.Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant， and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery， Alabama. There he met and fell in love with a wild seventeen-year-old beauty named Zelda Sayre. Zelda finally agreed to marry him, but her overpowering desire for wealth， fun， and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success。
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• Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter --to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning----
人物结局
• 盖茨比：被枪杀 • 威尔逊：杀了盖茨比之后吞枪自杀 • Nike：回到了中西部
Chapter 9
• 大意：时隔两年，Nike回忆起了盖茨比死 后的一切，那些淡漠的不愿来参加盖茨比 葬礼的有以前来参加聚会的人，有盖茨比 以前的生意伙伴。 • 葬礼上只有看到报纸报道之后闻讯而来的 盖茨比的爸爸，葬礼结束后，Nike便离开 了这个让他感到无比失望的地方。 • Nike和乔丹终于结束了那一段不清不楚的 关系，Nike也在一次偶遇Tom的时候，证 实了威尔逊错杀盖茨比的原因。
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Chapter 8
• 大意：黛西开车撞死了威尔逊太太，Nike整夜辗转难眠
找到了盖茨比，盖茨比把他跟丹· 科迪度过的年轻时代的 离奇故事告诉了Nike，也回忆了他跟黛西的过往，既有他 们的相识相爱，也有战争结束后他回来寻找黛西时他们的 擦肩而过。早饭过后，Nike磨蹭了许久错过了好几班车之 后告别了盖茨比不情不愿的去工作了，而盖茨比准备游泳 等待黛西的电话，无法静下心工作的Nike途中接到了 Jordan的电话，他们不欢而散。 • 乔治· 威尔逊在威尔逊太太死后便疯疯癫癫，一根小小的 贵重的狗皮带让他觉得他太太一定是出轨了然后被其情夫 杀死了，于是他走遍了大大小小的车行，知道了那是属于 盖茨比的车，于是一场杀戮开始了，Nike回到盖茨比家， 看到的只有在游泳池里冰冷的盖茨比和草丛里自杀的威尔 逊。
the great gatsby(了不起的盖茨比) 英文介绍及赏析
The Great Gatsby F.Scott.FitzgeraldContextFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star-Spangled Banner. Fitzgerald was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Despite being a mediocre student there, he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913. Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead enlisting in the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end.Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama. There he met and fell in love with a wild seventeen-year-old beauty named Zelda Sayre. Zelda finally agreed to marry him, but her overpowering desire for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success. With the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920, Fitzgerald became a literary sensation, earning enough money and fame to convince Zelda to marry him.Many of these events from Fitzgerald’s early life appear in his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, published in 1925. Like Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is a thoughtful young man from Min nesota, educated at an Ivy League school (in Nick’s case, Yale), who moves to New York after the war. Also similar to Fitzgerald is Jay Gatsby, a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a military camp in the South.Having become a celebrity, Fitzgerald fell into a wild, reckless life-style of parties and decadence, while desperately trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money. Similarly, Gatsby amasses a great deal of wealth at a relatively young age, and devotes himself to acquiring possessions and throwing parties that he believes will enable him to win Daisy’s love. As the giddiness of the Roaring Twenties dissolved into the ble akness of the Great Depression, however, Zelda suffered a nervous breakdown and Fitzgerald battled alcoholism, which hampered his writing. He published Tender Is the Night in 1934, and sold short stories to The Saturday Evening Post to support his lavish lifestyle. In 1937, he left for Hollywood to write screenplays, and in 1940, while working on his novel The Love of the Last Tycoon, died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four.Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation. Prohibition, the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1919), made millionaires out of bootleggers, and an underground culture of revelry sprang up. Sprawling private parties managed to elude police notice, and “speakeasies”—secret clubs that sold liquor—thrived. The chaos and violence of World War I left America in a state of shock, and the generation that fought the war turned to wild and extravagant living to compensate. The staid conservatism and timeworn values of the previous decade were turned on their ear, as money, opulence, and exuberance became the order of the day.Like Nick in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald found this new lifestyle seductive and exciting, and, like Gatsby, he had always idolized the very rich. Now he found himself in an era in which unrestrained materialism set the tone of society, particularly in the large cities of the East. Even so, like Nick, Fitzgerald saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to the moral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath, and part of him longed for this absent moral center. In many way s, The Great Gatsby represents Fitzgerald’s attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age. Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald was driven by his love for a woman who symbolized everything he wanted, even as she led him toward everything he despised.Plot OverviewNick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night.Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with wh om Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also l earns a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose.As the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of Ga tsby’s legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smile, and calls everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arr ange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair.After a short time, Tom grows in creasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her. Though Tom is himself involved in an extramarital affair, he is deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful to him. He forces the group to drive into New York City, where he confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom asserts that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announces to his wife that Gatsby is a criminal—his fortune comes from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realizes that her allegiance is to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sends her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt him.When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby’s car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intends to take the blame. The next day, Tom tells Myrtle’s husband, George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car. George, who has leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover, finds Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead. He then fatally shoots himself.Nick stages a small funeral for Gatsby, ends his relationship with Jordan, and moves back to the Midwest to escape the disgust he feels for the people surrounding Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby’s power to transform his dreams into reality is what makes him “great,” Nick reflects that the era o f dreaming—both Gatsby’s dream and the American dream—is over.Character ListNick Carraway - The novel’s narrator, Nick is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business. Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. After moving to West Egg, a fictional area of Long Island that is home to the newly rich, Nick quickly befriends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. As Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he facil itates the rekindling of the romance between her and Gatsby. The GreatGatsby is told entirely through Nick’s eyes; his thoughts and perceptions shape and color the story.Nick Carraway (In-Depth Analysis)Jay Gatsby - The title character and protagonist of the novel, Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night, but no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune. As the novel progresses, Nick learns that Gatsby was born James Gatz on a farm in North Dakota; working for a millionaire made him dedicate his life to the achievement of wealth. When he met Daisy while training to be an officer in Louisville, he fell in love with her. Nick also learns that Gatsby made his fortune through criminal activity, as he was willing to do anything to gain the social position he thought necessary to win Daisy. Nick views Gatsby as a deeply flawed man, dishonest and vulgar, whose extraordinary optimism and power to transform his dreams into reality make him “great” nonetheless.Jay Gatsby (In-Depth Analysis)Daisy Buchanan - Nick’s cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful socialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is sardonic and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband’s constant infidelity.Daisy Buchanan (In-Depth Analysis)Tom Buchanan - Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick’s social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family, Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.Jordan Baker - Daisy’s friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest: she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth.Myrtle Wilson - Tom’s lover, whose lifeless husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle herself possesses a fierce vitality and desperately looks for a way to improve her situation. Unfortunately for her, she chooses Tom, who treats her as a mere object of his desire.George Wilson - Myrtle’s husband, the lifeless, exhausted owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the valley of ashes. George loves and idealizes Myrtle, and is devastated by her affair with Tom. George is consumed with grief when Myrtle is killed. George is comparable to Gatsby in that both are dreamers and both are ruined by their unrequited love for women who love Tom.Owl Eyes - The eccentric, bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby’s mansion. Nick finds Owl Eyes look ing through Gatsby’s library, astonished that the boo ks are real.Klipspringer - The shallow freeloader who seems almost to live at Gatsby’s mansion, taking advantage of his host’s money. As soon as Gatsby dies, Klipspringer disappears—he does not attend the funeral, but he does call Nick about a pair of te nnis shoes that he left at Gatsby’s mansion. Analysis of Major CharactersJay GatsbyThe title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man, around thirty years old, who rose from an impoverished childhood in rural North Dakota to become fabulously wealthy. However, he achieved this lofty goal by participating in organized crime, including distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities. From his early youth, Gatsby despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication—he dropped out of St. Olaf’s College after only two weeks because he could not bear the janitorial job with which he was paying his tuition. Though Gatsby has always wanted to be rich, his main motivation in acquiring his fortune was his love for Daisy Buchanan, whom he met as a young military officer in Louisville before leaving to fight in World War I in 1917. Gatsby immediately fell in love with Daisy’s aura of luxury, grace, and charm, and l ied to her about his own background in order to convince her that he was good enough for her. Daisy promised to wait for him when he left for the war, but married Tom Buchanan in 1919, while Gatsby was studying at Oxford after the war in an attempt to gain an education. From that moment on, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, and his acquisition of millions of dollars, his purchase of a gaudy mansion on West Egg, and his lavish weekly parties are all merely means to that end.Fitzgerald delays the introduction of most of this information until fairly late in the novel. Gats by’s reputation precedes him—Gatsby himself does not appear in a speaking role until Chapter III. Fitzgerald initially presents Gatsby as the aloof, enigmatic host of the unbelievably opulent parties thrown every week at his mansion. He appears surrounded by spectacular luxury, courted by powerful men and beautiful women. He is the subject of a whirlwind of gossip throughout New York and is already a kind of legendary celebrity before he is ever introduced to the reader. Fitzgerald propels the novel forward through the early chapters by shrouding Gatsby’s background and the source of his wealth in mystery (the reader learns about Gatsby’s childhood in Chapter VI and receives definitive proof of his criminal dealings in Chapter VII). As a result, the reader’s first, distant impressions of Gatsby strike quite a different note from that of the lovesick, naive young man who emerges during the later part of the novel. Fitzgerald uses this technique of delayed character revelation to emphasize the theatrical qualit y of Gatsby’s approach to life, which is an important part of his personality. Gatsby has literally created his own character, even changing his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby to represent his reinvention of himself. As his relentless quest for Daisy demonstrates, Gatsby has an extraordinary ability to transform his hopes and dreams into reality; at the beginning of the novel, he appears to the reader just as he desires to appear to the world. This talent for self-invention is what gives Gatsby his qual ity of “greatness”: indeed, the title “The Great Gatsby” is reminiscent of billings for such vaudeville magicians as “The Gre at Houdini” and “The Great Blackstone,” suggesting that the persona of Jay Gatsby is a masterful illusion.Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.(See Important Quotations Explained)As the novel progresses and Fitzgerald deconstructs Gatsby’s self-presentation, Gatsby reveals himself to be an innocent, hopeful young man who stakes everything on his dreams, not realizing that his dreams are unworthy of him. Gatsby invests Daisy with an idealistic perfection that she cannot possibly attain in reality and pursues her with a passionate zeal that blinds him to her limitations. His dream of her disintegrates, revealing the corruption that wealth causes and the unworthiness of the goal, much in the way Fitzgerald sees the American dream crumbling in the 1920s, as America’s powerful optimism, vitality, and individualism become subordinated to the amoral pursuit of wealth.Gatsby is contrasted most consistently with Nick. Critics point out that the former, passionate and active, and the latter, sober and reflective, seem to represent two sides of Fitzgerald’s personality. Additionally, where as Tom is a cold-hearted, aristocratic bully, Gatsby is a loyal and good-hearted man. Though his lifestyle and attitude differ greatly from those of George Wilson, Gatsby and Wilson share the fact that they both lose their love interest to Tom.Nick CarrawayIf Gatsby represents one part of Fitzgerald’s personality, the flashy celebrity who pursued and glorified wealth in order to impress the woman he loved, then Nick represents another part: the quiet, reflective Midwesterner adrift in the lurid East. A young man (he turns thirty during the course of the novel) from Minnesota, Nick travels to New York in 1922 to learn the bond business. He lives in the West Egg district of Long Island, next doorto Gatsby. Nick is also Daisy’s cousin, which enables him to o bserve and assist the resurgent love affair between Daisy and Gatsby. As a result of his relationship to these two characters, Nick is the perfect choice to narrate the novel, which functions as a personal memoir of his experiences with Gatsby in the summer of 1922.Nick is also well suited to narrating The Great Gatsby because of his temperament. As he tells the reader in Chapter I, he is tolerant, open-minded, quiet, and a good listener, and, as a result, others tend to talk to him and tell him their secrets. Gatsby, in particular, comes to trust him and treat him as a confidant. Nick generally assumes a secondary role throughout the novel, preferring to describe and comment on events rather than dominate the action. Often, however, he functions as Fitzger ald’s voice, as in his extended meditation on time and the American dream at the end of Chapter IX. Insofar as Nick plays a role inside the narrative, he evidences a strongly mixed reaction to life on the East Coast, one that creates a powerful internal conflict that he does not resolve until the end of the book. On the one hand, Nick is attracted to the fast-paced, fun-driven lifestyle of New York. On the other hand, he finds that lifestyle grotesque and damaging. This inner conflict is symbolized througho ut the book by Nick’s romantic affair with Jordan Baker. He is attracted to her vivacity and her sophistication just as he is repelled by her dishonesty and her lack of consideration for other people.Nick states that there is a “quality of distortion” to life in New York, and this lifestyle makes him lose his equilibrium, especially early in the novel, as when he gets drunk at Gatsby’s party in Chapter II. After witnessing the unraveling of Gatsby’s dream and presiding over t he appalling spectacle of Gatsb y’s funeral, Nick realizes that the fast life of revelry on the East Coast is a cover for the terrifying moral emptiness that the valley of ashes symbolizes. Having gained the maturity that this insight demonstrates, he returns to Minnesota in search of a quieter life structured by more traditional moral values.Daisy BuchananPartially based on Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. As a young debutante in Louisville, Daisy was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lied about his background to Daisy, claiming to be from a wealthy family in order to convince her that he was worthy of her. Eventuall y, Gatsby won Daisy’s heart, and they made love before Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, bu t in 1919 she chose instead to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle and who had the support of her parents.After 1919, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, making her the single goal of all of his dreams and the main motivation behind his acquisition of immense wealth through criminal activity. To Gatsby, Daisy represents the paragon of perfection—she has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota and that first attracted him to her. In reality, however, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby’s ideals. She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic. Nick characterizes her as a careless person who smashes things up and then retreats behind her money. Daisy proves her real nature when she chooses Tom over Gatsby in Chapter VII, then allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson even though she herself was driving the car. Finally, rather than a ttend Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no forwarding address.Like Zelda Fitzgerald, Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury. She is capable of affection (she seems genuinely fond of Nick and occasionally seems to love Gatsby sincerely), but not of sustained loyalty or care. She is indifferent even to her own infant daughter, never discussing her and treating her as an afterthought when she is introduced in Chapter VII. In Fitzgerald’s conception of America in the 1920s, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg set.Themes, Motifs & SymbolsThemesThemes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920sOn the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island, New York, The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties and wild jazz music—epitomized in The Great Gatsby by the opulent parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night—resulted ultimately in the corruption of the American dream, as the unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed more noble goals. When World War I ended in 1918, the generation of young Americans who had fought the war became intensely disillusioned, as the brutal carnage that they had just faced made the Victorian social morality of early-twentieth-century America seem like stuffy, empty hypocrisy. The dizzying rise of the stock market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden, sustained increase in the national wealth and a newfound materialism, as people began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels. A person from any social background could, potentially, make a fortune, but the American aristocracy—families with old wealth—scorned the newly rich industrialists and speculators. Additionally, the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919, which banned the sale of alcohol, created a thriving underworld designed to satisfy the massive demand for bootleg liquor among rich and poor alike.Fitzgerald positions the characters of The Great Gatsby as emblems of these social trends. Nick and Gatsby, both of whom fought in World War I, exhibit the newfound cosmopolitanism and cynicism that resulted from the war. The various social climbers and ambitious speculators who attend Gatsby’s parties evidence the greedy scramble for wealth. The clash between “old money” and “new money” manifests itself in the novel’s symbol ic geography: East Egg represents the established aristocracy, West Egg the self-made rich. Meyer Wolfshiem and Gatsby’s fortune s ymbolize the rise of organized crime and bootlegging.As Fitzgerald saw it (and as Nick explains in Chapter IX), the American dream was originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. In the 1920s depicted in the novel, however, easy money and relaxed social values have corrupted this dream, especially on the East Coast. The main plotline of the novel reflects this assessment, as Gatsby’s dream of loving Daisy is ruined by the difference in the ir respective social statuses, his resorting to crime to make enough money to impress her, and the rampant materialism that characterizes her lifestyle. Additionally, places and objects in The Great Gatsby have meaning only because characters instill them with meaning: the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg best exemplify this idea. In Nick’s mind, the ability to create meaningful symbols constitutes a central component of the American dream, as early Americans invested their new nation with their own ideals and values.Nick compares the green bulk of America rising from the ocean to the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Just as Americans have given America meaning through their dreams for their own lives, Gatsby instills Daisy with a kind of idealized perfection that she neither deserves nor possesses. Gatsby’s dream is ruined by the unworthiness of its object, just as the American dream in the 1920s is ruined by the unworthi ness of its object—money and pleasure. Like 1920s Americans in general, fruitlessly seeking a bygone era in which their dreams had value, Gatsby longs to re-create a vanished past—his time in Louisville with Daisy—but is incapable of doing so. When his dream crumbles, all that is left for Gatsby to do is die; all Nick can do is move back to Minnesota, where American values have not decayed.The Hollowness of the Upper ClassOne of the major topics explored in The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth, specifically, how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country’s richest families. In the novel, West Egg and its denizens represent the newly rich, while EastEgg and its denizens, especially Daisy and Tom, represent the old aristocracy. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. Gatsby, for example, lives in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce, and does not pick up on subtle social signals, such as the insincerity of the Sloanes’ invitation to lunch. In contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by the Buchanans’ tasteful home and the flowing white dresses of Daisy and Jordan Baker.What the old aristocracy possesses in taste, however, it seems to lack in heart, as the East Eggers prove themselves careless, inconsiderate bullies who are so used to money’s ability to ease their minds that they never worry about hurting others. The Buchanans exemplify th is stereotype when, at the end of the novel, they simply move to a new ho use far away rather than condescend to attend Gatsby’s funeral. Gatsby, on the other hand, whose recent wealth derives from criminal activity, has a sincere and loyal heart, remaining outside Daisy’s window until four in t he morning in Chapter VII simply t o make sure that Tom does not hurt her. Ironically, Gatsby’s good qualities (loyalty and love) lead to his death, as he takes the blame for killing Myrtle rather than letting Daisy be punished, and the Buchanans’ bad qualities (fickleness and selfishness) allow them to remove themselves from the tragedy not only physically but psychologically.MotifsMotifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.GeographyThroughout the novel, places and settings epitomize the various aspects of the 1920s American society that Fitzgerald depicts. East Egg represents the old aristocracy, West Egg the newly rich, the valley of ashes the moral and social decay of America, and New York City the uninhibited, amoral quest for money and pleasure. Additionally, the East is connected to the moral decay and social cynicism of New York, while the West (including Midwestern and northern areas such as Minnesota) is connected to more traditional social values an d ideals. Nick’s analysis in Chapter IX of the story he has related reveals his sensitivity to this dichotomy: though it is set in the East, the story is really one of the West, as it tells how people originally from west of the Appalachians (as all of the main characters are) react to the pace and style of life on the East Coast.WeatherAs in much of Shakespeare’s work, the weather in The Great Gatsby unfailingly matches the emotional and narrative tone of the story. Gatsby and Daisy’s reunion begins amid a pouring rain, proving awkward and melancholy; their love reawakens just as the sun begins to come out. Gatsby’s climactic confrontation with Tom occurs on the hottest day of the summer, under the scorching sun (like the fatal encounter between Mercutio and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet). Wilson kills Gatsby on the first day of autumn, as Gatsby floats in his pool despite a palpable chill in the air—a symbolic attempt to stop time and restore his relationship with Daisy to the way it was five years before, in 1917.SymbolsSymbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.The Green LightSituated at the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock and barely visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn, the green light represents Gatsb y’s hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby associates it with Daisy, and in Chapter I he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead him to his goal. Because Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream, the green light also symbolizes that more generalized ideal. In Chapter IX, Nick compares the green light to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have looked to early settlers of the new nation.The Valley of AshesFirst introduced in Chapter II, the valley of ashes between West Egg and New York City consists of a long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. It represents the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure. The valley of ashes also symbolizes the plight of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality as a result.The Eyes of Doctor T. J. EckleburgThe eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are a pair of fading, bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes. They may represent God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland, though the novel never makes this point explicitly. Instead, throughout the novel, Fitzgerald suggests that symbols only have meaning because characters instill them with meaning. The connection between the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg and God exists only in George Wilson’s grief-stricken mind. This lack of concrete significance contributes to the unsettling nature of the image. Thus, the eyes also come to represent the essential meaninglessness of the world and the arbitrariness of the mental process by which people invest objects with meaning. Nick e xplores these ideas in Chapter VIII, when he imagines Gatsby’s final thoughts as a depressed consideration of the emptiness of symbols and dreams.。
the_great_gatsby(了不起的盖茨比)_英文介绍及赏析
The Great Gatsby F.Scott.Fitzgerald.Character ListDaisy Buchanan - Nick’s cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful socialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is sardonic and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband’s constant infidelity.Daisy Buchanan (In-Depth Analysis)Tom Buchanan - Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick’s social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family, Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.Jordan Baker - Daisy’s friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest: she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth.Myrtle Wilson - Tom’s lover, whose lifeless husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle herself possesses a fierce vitality and desperately looks for a way to improve her situation. Unfortunately for her, she chooses Tom, who treats her as a mere object of his desire.Analysis of Major CharactersDaisy BuchananPartially based on Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. As a young debutante in Louisville, Daisy was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lied about his background to Daisy, claiming to be from a wealthy family in order to convince her that he was worthy of her. Eventually, Gatsby won Daisy’s heart, and they made love before Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, but in 1919 she chose instead to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle and who had the support of her parents.After 1919, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, making her the single goal of all of his dreams and the main motivation behind his acquisition of immense wealth through criminal activity. To Gatsby, Daisy represents the paragon of perfection—she has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota and that first attracted him to her. In reality, however, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby’s ideals. She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic. Nick characterizes her as a careless person who smashes things up and then retreats behind her money. Daisy proves her real nature when she chooses Tom over Gatsby in Chapter VII, then allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson even though she herself was driving the car. Finally, rather than atte nd Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving noforwarding address.Like Zelda Fitzgerald, Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury. She is capable of affection (she seems genuinely fond of Nick and occasionally seems to love Gatsby sincerely), but not of sustained loyalty or care. She is indifferent even to her own infant daughter, never discussing her and treating her as an afterthought when she is introduced in Chapter VII. In Fitzgerald’s conception of America in the 1920s, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg set.。
The Great Gatsby 了不起的盖茨比英文
? Jordan Baker –A cynical and conceited woman who cheats in golf;wants Nick to go out with her.
? Myrtle Wilson -Tom has an affair with this
wrote many short stories that Fitzgerald's friendship
“信达雅”标准下的The Great Gatsby书名翻译
“信达雅”标准下的The Great Gatsby书名翻译译者对菲茨杰拉德的小说The Great Gatsby书名尝试过多种译法，其中以《了不起的盖茨比》最为流行。
用“信、达、雅”标准对《了不起的盖茨比》的译法进行重新审视，其准确性尚有可商榷之处。
《了不起的盖茨比》的译法是特定时代的产物，且“信”而不“达”，抛开意识形态的禁锢，《伟大的盖茨比》的译法更符合“信”和“达”的标准。
在众多追求“雅”译的译法中，既暗示小说内容，又呼应小说主题的《灯绿梦渺》堪称“尔雅”，充分体现了译者对整部小说的透彻理解，是译者对小说的一种高度概括和唯美诠释。
标签：The Great Gatsby；“信、达、雅”；书名翻译；《了不起的盖茨比》严复先生在其首部译著《天演论》的“译例言”中，论述了他对翻译标准的看法，提出了他所遵循的翻译标准——“信、达、雅”，[1]从而一举奠定了其在我国近现代翻译理论中的基础地位。
严复对“信、达、雅”标准的模糊阐述，赋予了其所涵盖的范畴和涵义极强的伸缩性，成就了其在翻译理论中的基石作用。
孙严群在《天演论》“序”中断言：“吾国学人致力译事来者方多，犹奉‘信’‘达’‘雅’为圭臬”，果然一语成箴。
严复关于翻译的“信、达、雅”标准，历经百年不衰，一直为许多译者所推崇。
虽然译界对其理论和翻译思想争论不断，对“信、达、雅”的内容和涵义进行完善和发展，出现了诸如陈西滢的“形似、意似、神似”、钱钟书的“化境”、刘重德的“信、达、切”、许渊冲的“信、达、优”等，但归根结底，都留有“信、达、雅”的痕迹，很难割离开与“信、达、雅”千丝万缕的联系，所谓“万变不离其宗，‘信达雅’之宗”。
[2]用“信、达、雅”作为翻译的标准，衡量The Great Gatsby书名翻译，探讨多年来大陆和港台出现的诸多译法，对更深刻认识这部作品，大有裨益；同时，对今后重译书名的再选择，提供一些借鉴和有益的启示。
菲茨杰拉德的“爵士时代”代表作品The Great Gatsby于1925年出版，著名诗人兼文学评论家T·S·艾略特在给菲茨杰拉德的信中，赞扬这部作品“代表了美国小说自亨利·詹姆斯以来，向前迈出的第一步”。
the great gatsby
the great gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》（英语：The Great Gatsby）是由巴兹·鲁赫曼（Baz Luhrmann）执导，巴兹·鲁赫曼、克雷格·皮尔斯（Craig Pearce）、弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德（F. Scott Fitzgerald）担任编剧，莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥（Leonardo DiCaprio）、凯瑞·穆里根（Carey Mulligan）、托比·马奎尔（Tobey Maguire）等主演的爱情电影。
该片改编自美国作家弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德1925年出版的小说《了不起的盖茨比》，是导演巴兹·鲁赫曼继改编莎士比亚作品《罗密欧与朱丽叶》后的又一名著改编。
影片讲述了1922年的春天，作家尼克(托比·马奎尔饰)随淘金热潮来到纽约，他放弃写作而进入证券市场，成为神秘富豪盖茨比（莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥饰）的邻居，随后被表妹黛西（凯瑞·穆里根饰）的贵族丈夫汤姆（乔尔·埃哲顿饰）带去找情妇寻欢，渐渐迷失。
然而，当尼克被盖茨比邀请参加盛宴时，尼克发现了原来盖茨比深爱着表妹黛西，最终在盖茨比被杀后，尼克看清了上流社会的虚情寡义而决心远离喧嚣、冷漠、虚假的大都市的故事。
2013年，该片获得第15届美国青少年选择奖最佳剧情片提名；2014年，贝弗利·邓恩（Beverley Dunn）和凯瑟琳·马丁（Catherine Martin）凭借该片获得第86届奥斯卡金像奖最佳艺术指导和第18届金卫星奖电影部门最佳美术指导，同时凯瑟琳·马丁还获得第86届奥斯卡金像奖最佳服装设计奖。
— 1 —该片制片于美国、澳大利亚，于2013年5月1日在美国纽约首映，2013年5月10日在美国公映，2013年5月30日在澳大利亚公映，2013年8月30日在中国大陆上映。
the great gatsby译文
the great gatsby译文
《了不起的盖茨比》
作者：F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德
译者：略
第一章
在我的一生中，假如一些东西浮上了水面，我就总是希望遭殃。
并且假如我真遭了殃，我也会细细地品味一番。
——杰伊·盖
茨比
当我29岁的时候，我的乡村富户朋友汤姆•布坦南带我去纽约
一起玩。
他是一个很高大的金发男子，一个在那个年代里扮演了“新金融”角色的人物。
在那个让人吃惊的女人们尚未习惯现金富商们告诉他们的故事之前，这类角色通常是默默无闻的。
我以邱小颖方式感慨，但这对他来说是个挑战。
他的态度装载着昂首挺胸的世界，对他来说除了自己之外都是渺小的。
汤姆的恰荣耀之外，长得很像邦慕斯，但我总是幻想邦慕斯可能是势利的。
渐渐地，我清楚地看到这被唤做“暗湖”的闷墙后面的门户，是他个人不愿花时间去打破的一堵墙。
他手里的笔更像一个握着长枪的斯巴达勇士的样子。
2002年，我要去纽约看汤姆。
所以我在公布我的日程之前，
首先让他解释为什么他没从瓜岛飞回来；终于，在我们抵达那
里的时候，它为此事出了眼睛。
他的苍白的女人——女巫这种讨厌的形象一直是我的嘲笑；她经常给汤姆写信，甚至给我们几百元的支票，如果在纽约偶然度过不想在金罩里结账的周末后，我们就会敲门向酒窖开放；她的透明的爱豆，那是金枪鱼罐头里泡出来的，是用水割的；她16岁时重逾200磅，让所有男子在深情厚意下逛过；她是泡在美国精神里的浓形式。
“眼前的《国家地理》摆在我面前，很快两小时过去了。
这一刻，桌子上的物质更加让我怀念了。
”。
The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比
The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity(繁荣兴旺) during the “roaring” 1920s as the economy soared（飞升）. At the same time, Prohibition（禁止禁令）, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated（命令，指 令） by the Eighteenth Amendment（修正草案）made millionaires out of bootleggers（私卖酒）. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon （模范）of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world and is ranked second in the Modern Library's lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.
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• Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people I have ever known.
great gatsby英文梗概
great gatsby英文梗概（最新版）目录1.了解《了不起的盖茨比》的英文梗概2.概述英文梗概的主要内容3.分析英文梗概对读者的吸引力正文《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby）是美国作家菲茨杰拉德（F.Scott Fitzgerald）创作的一部经典小说。
这部小说以 20 世纪 20 年代的美国为背景，讲述了一位名叫杰伊·盖茨比的神秘富翁的故事。
虽然这部小说最初是在 1925 年出版的，但它至今仍然被认为是美国文学史上最杰出的作品之一。
下面我们将简要介绍一下这部小说的英文梗概。
英文梗概以一位名叫尼克·卡拉韦（Nick Carraway）的年轻人为主视角，他搬到纽约州长岛，成为盖茨比豪宅的邻居。
尼克是一位刚刚从一场世界大战中归来的士兵，对这个繁华世界充满好奇。
他观察到盖茨比举办的豪华派对和奢华生活，逐渐发现这个充满魅力的富翁背后的悲剧。
梗概中还涉及了尼克与盖茨比的朋友黛西·布坎南（Daisy Buchanan）和乔丹·贝克（Jordan Baker）之间的复杂关系。
这部小说的英文梗概吸引读者的方式有很多。
首先，它展示了 20 世纪 20 年代美国的繁荣和纵欲主义，这是一个令人兴奋的时代，充满着机遇和挑战。
其次，梗概中的角色形象丰满，每个角色都有自己独特的个性和动机，让读者产生共鸣。
最后，梗概以一种引人入胜的方式呈现了小说的主题，包括财富、爱情、道德和社会地位等。
总之，《了不起的盖茨比》的英文梗概为读者呈现了一个充满魅力和悲剧的故事。
它让读者对小说的主题和角色产生兴趣，从而激发他们阅读原著的欲望。
The Great Gatsby 1
The Great Gatsby was published in 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. At first glance, the novel appears to be a simple love story, but further examination reveals Fitzgerald's masterful adj. 专横的，傲慢的；主人派头的；熟练的Scrutiny n. 详细审查；监视；细看；选票复查of American society during the 1920s and the corruption of the American dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1926) is, at first sight, a novel about love, idealism and disillusionment. n. 幻灭；醒悟However, it soon reveals its hidden depths and enigmas. n. 解谜（enigma的复数）What is the significance of the strange "waste land" between West Egg and New York, where Myrtle Wilson meets her death, an alien landscape presided over by the eyes of T J Eckleburg whose eyes, like God's, "see everything"? And what are we to make of the novel's unobtrusive adj. 不唐突的；谦虚的；不引人注目的symbolism (the green light, the colour of American dollar bills, which burns at the end of Daisy's dock, the references to the elements - land, sea and earth - over which Gatby claims mastery, n. 掌握；精通；优势；征服；统治权the contrast between "East" and "West"), or its subtle adj. 微妙的；精细的；敏感的；狡猾的；稀薄的use of the personalised first narrator, the unassuming Nick Carraway? It is a novel which has intrigued adj. 好奇的；被迷住了的v. 引起…的兴趣；使迷惑；策划阴谋（intrigue的过去分词and fascinated adj. 着迷的；被深深吸引的v. 使着迷；使陶醉（fascinate的过去分词）readers. Clearly, as a self-proclaimed "tale of the West", it is exploring questions about America and what it means to be American. In this sense Gatsby is perhaps that legendary opus, 具有传奇色彩的作品the "Great American Novel", following in the footsteps of works such as Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn. We will return to this aspect of the novelin more detail later on. However, we also need to be aware that it is a novel which has much to be say about more abstract questions to do with faith, belief and illusion. Although rooted in the "Jazz Age" which Fitzgerald is so often credited with naming, it is also a novel which should be considered alongside adv. 在旁边prep. 在……旁边works like The Waste Land, exploring that "hollowness n. 空旷；空虚；凹陷at the heart of things" which lies just below the surface of modern life. Eliot himself remarked that the novel "interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years". Viewed from more distant perspectives it is possible to see Gatsby as an archetypally tragic 悲剧的典型figure, the epitome n. 缩影；摘要；象征of idealism and innocence which strives for order, purpose and meaning in a chaotic adj. 混沌的；混乱的，无秩序的and hostile adj. 敌对的，敌方的；怀敌意的n. 敌对world. In this sense Gatsby contains religious and metaphysical adj. 形而上学的；超自然的；玄学派诗歌的Dimensions n. 规模，大小: the young man who shapes a "Platonic vision of himself" 不切实际的自己| 柏拉图的自己and who endows vt. 赋予；捐赠the worthless figure of Daisy with religious essence, 宗教本质eventually passes away into nothingness, n. 虚无，不存在；空白；不存在的状态with few at the funeral 葬礼to lament vt. 哀悼；痛惜the passing of his romantic dream.《了不起的盖茨比》出版于1922年斯科特·菲茨杰拉德。
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人物的象征意义——黛西 Daisy
• 黛西不论在尼克的眼中还是在盖茨比的心目中,她是美貌、 权势和财富的象征。 • 她的歌声叮当作响,嗓音铿锵优美,仿佛充满了金钱。她是 时代的产物,同时也是盖茨比梦想的化身。但她徒有一副 美丽躯壳,内心空洞、冷漠和自私。 • 黛西美丽却缺乏内涵正如美国梦，作者刻画出黛西这个人 物来象征美国梦。 • 女主人公的名字是作者精心设计的,Daisy一词翻译成汉语 就是雏菊,也就象征着金钱和空虚同时存在,并预示着梦想 的破灭。
Jay Gatsby
黛西是美貌、权势和财富的象征。
• 她的歌声叮当作响,嗓音铿锵优 美,仿佛充满了金钱。她是时代 的产物,同时也是盖茨比梦想的 化身。
• 她娇憨可爱，善于做作，卖弄 风情。像仙女一样，白衣飘飘， 声音无比婉转，充满了激情。 • 黛西不自食其力，过着寄生的 生活。她贪恋金钱，贪恋优越 的生活。她徒有一副美丽躯壳, 内心空洞、冷漠和自私。
背景设置中象征手法的运用
• 夏天,太阳火辣辣地照射大地,大地好像要被烧焦了似的,它容易引发 人们冲动、急躁。作者把背景设置在夏天,可以看出作者细腻的感情 和精心的设计。小说第七章以炙热天气开始,并展示所有主要人物的 复杂关系;高潮部分不仅预示了盖茨比幻想的破灭,而且也对其他主要 人物进行了犀利的道德评判。故事发生的季节就像喧噪的20世纪20年 代。 • 但作者在写小说的时候保持了清醒的头脑。正如炎热的天气到了一定 程度就要下雨一样,他相信雨后会见到彩虹,也许夏天过去,人们就会 平静下来,了解并反思自己的观念和行为,他们会有所收获。一个人的 经历是这样,美国也是这样;经历了喧噪的20年代,又迎来了30年代的 黄金时代。
Jay Gatsby Daisy
• 其次，在盖茨比的身上，可以看 到拜金时代在他身上打下的深刻 烙印。
The Great Gatsby
Background 创作背景
• The 1920s was a brief and special period in the history of the United States, known as the "hustle and bustle", referring to the 1929 years before the end of the First World War in 1919 to the 1929. • 20世纪20年代是美国历史上一个短暂而特殊的 时期，史称“喧嚣年代”，指的是第一次世界大 战结束后的1919年到美国经济大溃败之前的 1929年这10年。
• “The Great Gatsby" came out, laid the Scott Schuart Fitzgerald in the history of modern American literature, became the 1920s "Jazz era" spokesman and "lost generation" representatives One of the writers. At the end of the twentieth century, the authority of the American academy elected one hundred best novels in the centuries of English literature, and the "Great Gatsby" was the second highest and was repeatedly on the screen and the stage. • 《了不起的盖茨比》的问世，奠定了弗· 司各特· 菲茨杰拉德 在现代美国文学史上的地位，成了20年代“爵士时代”的 发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。20世纪末，美 国学术界权威在百年英语文学长河中选出一百部最优秀的 小说，《了不起的盖茨比》高居第二位，并被多次搬上银 幕和舞台。
一些名著英语作文
一些名著英语作文1. The Great Gatsby。
The Great Gatsby is a classic novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It's set in the 1920s and follows the story of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious and wealthy man who throws extravagant parties in the hopes of winning back his lost love, Daisy Buchanan.2. To Kill a Mockingbird。
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee that explores themes of racism, injustice, and morality. The story is told through the eyes of a young girl named Scout Finch, whose father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman.3. 1984。
1984 is a dystopian novel by George Orwell that depictsa totalitarian society ruled by a party led by Big Brother. The protagonist, Winston Smith, rebels against the oppressive regime and falls in love with Julia, leading to a series of events that challenge the party's control.4. Pride and Prejudice。
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The American Dream
Historian James Adams: A dream of being able to grow to fullest development as man and woman, unhampered(无阻碍的) by the barriers in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of higher classes. My understanding: It is the need to fight for what you believe in, show love to the things you care about; a belief of achieving a better life through your diligence, constant efforts, courage, and innovation but not through social status and other people‘s aids.
Nick struggles to arrange Gatsby's funeral, finding that very few people, are willing to attend. Daisy didn‘t attend, instead, she went on vacation with Tom.
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Main characters
Nick (narrator)---a bond salesman, and neighbor of Gatsby. Jay Gatsby --- a young, mysterious millionaire later revealed to be a bootlegger(造私酒者). Daisy Buchanan---an attractive young woman, Nick‘s cousin and the wife of Tom Buchanan. Tom Buchanan---Daisy‘s husband, an arrogant ―old money‖ millionaire. Myrtle Wilson — Tom‗s mistress(情妇). George B. Wilson—Myrtle‘s husband, a mechanic and owner of a garage.
Famous sentences
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. 我们继续奋力向前划，逆水行舟，不停地向后退退，直至回 到往昔岁月。
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven„t had the advantages that you‟ve had.” “每逢你想要对别人品头论足的时候，”他对我说，“要记 住，世上并非所有的人，都有你那样的优越条件。”
5 years later, Gatsby became a millionaire through being a bootlegger. He still loved Daisy, so he bought a big mansion and held lavish parties every week with the only hope that Daisy would attend some day.
An American author of novels and short stories. One of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. His works are the paradigm(范例) writings of the Jazz Age(爵士时代)(the 1920s) in America.
When they went back, Daisy , driving Gatsby‘s car, hit and killed Tom‘s mistress, Mrs. Wilson, unaware of her identity.
Tom told Mr. Wilson it was Gatsby who killed his wife. At last, Mr. Wilson murders Gatsby and then commits suicide.
The Great Gatsby
《了不起的盖茨比》 ------Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
(弗· 司各特· 菲茨杰拉德)
Question
In your opinion, why is Gatsby great?
(Give your understanding of the word ―Great‖ in the title.)
His works
This Side of Paradise《人间天堂》 The Beautiful and Damned《美丽诅咒》 Tender is the Night《夜色温柔》 The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比》 (His most famous one) Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.
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about the author The background Main characters Plot The theme Famous sentences
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
(1896 –1940)
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Gatsby
Fell in love with each other 5 years ago, but they were apart due to their social status.
Jack Tom Daisy
Mrs. Wilson
Mr. Wilson
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Plot
Setting:
In essence, Gatsby was the embodiment(化身) of this dream. He has risen from being a poor farm boy with no prospects, to being rich, having a big house, servants, and a large social circle attending his numerous functions. What‘s more, he has achieved all this in only a few short years. The gap between Gatsby’s dream and reality is a prominent point in this book.
The Theme
The Great Gatsby reflects the collapse of the American dream. In the 1920s, easy money and relaxed social values have corrupted this dream, especially on the East Coast. To Gatsby, Daisy is an ideal image of holy and pure. She is the simple of all nice things in Gatsby‘s dream. But actually, what Daisy care is only money.
The gaudiest spree (最华而不实的狂欢) in American history.
It is also known as ―the Roaring 20s‖.
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Background
The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the Roaring 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol made millionaires out of bootleggers(造私酒者). The main character Gatsby is one of the bootleggers.
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Jazz Age
(1918~1929)
The decade after World War I and before the Great Depression in 1929. Everything seemed to be feasible(可行的) through modern technology.