The_Great_Gatsby小说及作者简介
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目录
1 内容简介 2 写作背景 3 人物分析 4 写作手法
5 盖茨比的了不起
写作背景
《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉 德1925年所写的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约市及长岛 为背景的中篇小说，小说的背景被设定在现代化的美 国社会中上阶层的白人圈内，通过尼克的叙述展开。
《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家弗·司各特·菲 茨杰拉德的 “精神自传”
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。
人物分析
他作为一个矛盾的集合体而存在， 在他的身上，透射出人性最为复杂的一面。
Jay Gatsby Daisy
• 首先，在盖茨比的身上，能看到一个 痴心不改的男人对爱情的执著。对待 爱情，盖茨比真诚而又浪漫，他努力 营造着黄金的宫殿和热闹的聚会只为 与黛西相遇。
• 盖茨比是那个时代的一个典型的矛盾人 物，优雅中透出憨拙，精明中显出“乡 巴佬”的愚蠢。他既狠心，又善良；既 时时为财富的占有而自豪，又时时为自 己的穷苦出身而自卑。
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。
人物的象征意义——尼克 Nike
• 尼克以叙述者的身份出现,在小说中起着举足轻重的作用。这种叙述 方式使小说中异乎寻常的主角盖茨比变得真实可信。
英语版读书笔记
英语版读书笔记读书是一场心灵的冒险，每一本书都是一扇通向不同世界的窗户。
当我们用英语来记录读书的心得和感悟时，不仅能加深对书籍内容的理解，还能提升我们的英语表达能力。
接下来，我将与大家分享我最近读的一本英文书籍《The Great Gatsby》（《了不起的盖茨比》）的读书笔记。
《The Great Gatsby》是美国作家 F Scott Fitzgerald 创作的一部以 20 世纪 20 年代的纽约市及长岛为背景的小说。
故事主要围绕着年轻而神秘的百万富翁 Jay Gatsby 对初恋 Daisy Buchanan 的痴迷追求展开。
书中的主人公 Jay Gatsby 给我留下了深刻的印象。
他出身贫寒，但凭借着自己的决心和毅力，成为了富甲一方的人物。
然而，他的财富并没有给他带来真正的幸福。
他为了重新赢得 Daisy 的爱，举办奢华的派对，试图融入她所在的上流社会。
但 Daisy 却是一个自私、肤浅的女人，她最终还是选择了自己的丈夫 Tom，而 Gatsby 则成为了这场爱情悲剧的牺牲品。
Fitzgerald 对 20 世纪 20 年代美国社会的描绘也十分精彩。
那个时代，人们追求物质享受，道德观念淡薄，社会充满了虚荣和浮华。
书中的人物在这个物欲横流的世界中迷失了自我，找不到真正的价值和意义。
在阅读的过程中，我注意到了作者细腻而生动的语言描写。
比如，“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into thepast”（于是我们奋力向前划，逆流而上的小舟，不停地被浪潮推回到过去。
）这句话深刻地表达了人们在追求梦想时的无奈和挣扎。
通过阅读这本书，我不仅感受到了爱情的复杂和无常，也对美国的社会历史有了更深入的了解。
同时，我的英语词汇量也得到了扩充，对于英语语言的运用也更加熟练。
另一本让我受益匪浅的英文书籍是《To Kill a Mockingbird》（《杀死一只知更鸟》）。
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中文简介《了不起的盖茨比》（英语：The Great Gatsby，又译《大亨小传》），出版于1925年，是美国作家弗朗西斯·斯科特·基·菲茨杰拉德所写的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约市及长岛为背景的短篇小说，被视为美国文学“爵士时代”的象征。
它在初出版时并不受欢迎——菲茨杰拉德在世时的总销量只有少于二万四千本。
在大萧条以及二战时被忽略，直至20世纪50年代再版时才受到广泛注目。
其后的数十年它更成为高中、大学文学课的标准教材。
经常有人把它称为20世纪最伟大的英文小说之一[1]。
杰·盖茨比是一个年轻的百万富翁，他过去的名声并不十分好，他本人也相当可疑。
他与他交往的社会阶层并没有什么太多的联系，而且没人知道他是怎样发财的。
有人说他在禁酒期间非法酿酒发财。
还有传说说他杀过人，或者他在战争中是德国间谍。
有人甚至说他是德皇威廉二世的侄子。
无论如何，虽然他举办众多的豪华的宴会，而且有许多人到他那里去吃喝，他始终是一个孤独的人。
他所想要的仅仅是“重复过去”：与他一生的爱人黛西在一起。
但黛西现在已经和一个稳重的、受人尊敬的百万富翁汤姆·布卡南结婚了，两人还有一个女儿。
对盖茨比来说，这并不妨碍他争取黛西的爱，而黛西觉得她被她的婚姻束缚，对她的婚姻不满，喜欢盖茨比的主意。
小说的主人公尼克·卡拉威（第一人称）是一个华尔街的股票商，他是盖茨比的邻居。
后来卡拉威体会到不论外表上多么尊严，这些巨富们实际上是非常淡漠的人，汤姆和黛西也不例外。
汤姆有一个情人默尔特，她是长岛和纽约市的高楼大厦之间的不毛之地上的一个加油站主的妻子。
一天，盖茨比与汤姆因为黛西产生争执后，黛西因为神经紧张，为了平息情绪，驾着盖茨比的车返回，盖茨比同坐。
在交通事故中黛西意外地将默尔特碾死了，默尔特是汤姆的情妇。
为了保护黛西，盖茨比说是他驾的车。
痛恨盖茨比的汤姆，说服默尔特的丈夫，是盖茨比勾引了默尔特并且故意将她杀死。
经典英文著作
经典英文著作以下是一些经典的英文著作，供您参考：1.《傲慢与偏见》（Pride and Prejudice）：简·奥斯汀的这部经典小说讲述了一段关于爱情和社会阶层的19世纪英国故事。
2.《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby）：弗朗西斯·斯科特·基·菲茨杰拉德的这部小说是一部描绘20世纪20年代美国社会的经典之作。
3.《老人与海》（The Old Man and the Sea）：欧内斯特·海明威的这部短篇小说是一部关于勇气和毅力的经典之作。
4.《哈利·波特》（Harry Potter）系列：J.K.罗琳的这部奇幻小说系列在全球范围内广受欢迎，讲述了一位年轻巫师的成长故事。
5.《简爱》（Jane Eyre）：夏洛蒂·勃朗特的这部经典小说是一部描绘19世纪英国女性自我觉醒和追求自由的故事。
6.《雾都孤儿》（Oliver Twist）：查尔斯·狄更斯的这部经典小说是一部描绘19世纪英国社会黑暗面的作品。
7.《呼啸山庄》（Wuthering Heights）：艾米莉·勃朗特的这部经典小说是一部描绘爱情、复仇和自然之美的作品。
8.《鲁滨逊漂流记》（Robinson Crusoe）：丹尼尔·笛福的这部经典小说是一部描绘人类与自然斗争的故事。
9.《战争与和平》（War and Peace）：列夫·托尔斯泰的这部经典小说是一部描绘19世纪俄国社会的史诗巨著。
10.《傲慢与偏见》（Animal Farm）：乔治·奥威尔的这部经典小说是一部描绘权力斗争和政治讽刺的作品。
以上是一些经典的英文著作，它们涵盖了不同的文学流派和主题，对于提高英语阅读和写作能力有很大帮助。
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Background imformation
About the author
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in St.Paul, on September 24, 1896, the only son of an unsuccessful upper class father and an energetic mother of an Irish（爱尔兰） background.
The Great Gatsby
...his finest novel, sensitive and symbolic treatment of
themes of contemporary life related witndry of the American dream. ——《The Oxford Companion to American Literature》
The Jazz Age
• 就是爵士时代 • 第一次世界大战结束了(1918)，经济大萧条 (1929)还没有到来，传统的清教徒道德已经土崩 瓦解，享乐主义开始大行其道。美国著名小说家 菲茨杰拉德说，“这是一个奇迹的时代，一个艺 术的时代，一个挥金如土的时代，也是一个充满 嘲讽的时代。”菲茨杰拉德称这个时代为“爵士 乐时代”（一般指一战以后，经济大萧条以前的 约十年的时间），他自己也因此被称为爵士乐时 代的“编年史家”和“桂冠诗人”。
In 1925, he wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby which deals symbolically with the frustration and despair resulting from the failure of the American dream.
《了不起的盖茨比》赏析
The plot synopsis
Nick came to New York from home in the Midwest, is next to his residence book hero gatsby luxurious mansion. Here every night in held a grand banquet.
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• I do not know the younger girl. She lie low is on the imperial concubine couch, immobilized, chin tilted slightly, as if something is about to fall down, the above and she is trying to keep its balance. Her eyes turn don't turn, doesn't seem to see me in. But in fact I was surprised, almost did to apologize for my coming to bother her.
反正贝克小姐的嘴唇是动了几下，几乎看不 出来地朝我点点头，然后赶紧让她的头回到原 位——她下巴顶着的那样东西显然歪了一点， 把她吓坏了。我又差点脱口说出道歉的话。
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That summer, the music from my neighbor's house in the middle of the night often. The blue of the garden, a lot of men and women like moths in twitter, walking up and down between the champagne and the stars.
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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第三章感受与收获
the great gatsby第三章感受与收获《了不起的盖茨比》是美国著名作家F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德创作的一部文学经典，它以富豪盖茨比的传奇经历为背景，生动展现了上世纪20年代美国社会的虚伪与破败。
第三章是全书中的关键章节之一，通过描述盖茨比的豪华派对和人们的狂欢场面，展现了人性的脆弱和对物质的贪婪，带给我深刻的感受与启示。
第三章开篇，菲茨杰拉德以描写盖茨比的派对来展现人们的放纵与堕落。
派对的规模之大和无法想象的奢华让我震惊。
人们在豪华的庄园里疯狂狂欢，各种名流和社会精英都聚集在这个地方。
然而，在繁华背后，却隐藏着人们内心的空虚和孤独。
无论是盖茨比自己还是来参加派对的人们，都在这片虚荣的海洋中迷失了自己。
这让我想到了现实社会中人们对物质的过渡追求和内心的空虚，以及人们在社交场合上的虚伪与伪善。
众多参加派对的贵族和名流们简直就像是一群饥饿的狗，他们来到盖茨比的派对，希望通过参与这样的场合来寻找快乐和满足。
这种追逐物质享受和外表光鲜的现象令我想起了现实生活中的社交场合，人们往往只关注表面的光鲜亮丽，而忽略了真正的内在价值。
这也让我不禁思考，物质是否真的能带来快乐和满足，或许我们应该更多地从内心去追求真正的价值和快乐。
在这个派对中，我对盖茨比产生了深深的兴趣。
他一直以来都是神秘的存在，人们对他的来历和财富都充满了八卦和猜测。
然而，在这个派对中，我第一次看到了盖茨比真正的面貌，一个富有悲剧色彩的形象。
他虽然年轻有为、事业有成，但他内心却是孤独和空虚的。
无论他参与多少派对、结交多少朋友，他都无法找到内心的满足和真正的快乐。
这让我深深地思考人生的意义和追求，究竟是什么才能真正满足我们的内心需求？通过阅读第三章，我意识到财富和地位并不等同于幸福。
在这个派对中，有很多贵族和名流们生活奢华，却感到无趣和虚无。
而盖茨比虽然拥有巨大的财富和华丽的派对，却缺乏真正的幸福感。
这给了我一个重要的启示，那就是真正的幸福不仅来自物质的享受，更来自于内心的满足和对生活的热爱。
《了不起的盖茨比》(The Great Gatsby)500字读后感
《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby）500字读后感《了不起的盖茨比》是弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的文学巨著，一部深刻描绘了20世纪初美国社会的小说。
读完这部小说，我被其对美国梦的反思、对社会虚荣的揭示以及对人性脆弱性的刻画深深打动。
小说的主人公，盖茨比，是一个神秘而富有的人物，他以对黛西·布坎南的痴迷和对美国梦的执着为中心。
然而，盖茨比的一切都是建立在虚构和不可实现的理想之上。
他所代表的繁荣和奢华的象征，背后却隐藏着他对过去黛西的执念和对无法改变的现实的逃避。
盖茨比的命运令人唏嘘，他虽然追逐着虚幻的幸福，最终却陷入了无尽的悲剧。
小说通过对盖茨比及其周围人物的描写，反映了美国社会的虚荣和对物质追求的过度热衷。
那个时代的社交场合、奢侈派对和荒诞的价值观，使得人们迷失在表面光鲜的外表之下。
黛西·布坎南成为了一个代表，她的空虚和对财富的无尽渴望反映了社会对金钱和地位的痴迷。
小说中的这些人物，每个都代表着社会不同层面的虚荣和追求。
菲茨杰拉德通过小说中的一系列符号和隐喻，巧妙地传达了他对美国梦的质疑。
那璀璨的绿灯、盖茨比的豪华派对、汽车事故等元素，都暗示着一个被表象包裹的现实。
这种现实既是个体心灵深处的脆弱和孤独，也是社会价值观的空虚和荒谬。
小说的结尾是悲剧的，盖茨比死于对自己理想的执着和对黛西不切实际的追求。
他的死象征着对美国梦的破灭，对社会虚荣的揭露。
而那个一直默默守望的尼克·卡拉威，成为了对这场梦的见证者和反思者。
他对盖茨比的理解和对社会的独立思考，使他成为小说中一个旁观者，也是一个深思熟虑的叙述者。
《了不起的盖茨比》是一部令人深思的小说，它不仅揭示了美国梦的虚幻，还深刻反映了社会的价值观念和人性的脆弱。
菲茨杰拉德通过对角色的塑造、对象征的运用，以及对人性的细腻描绘，刻画了一个荒诞而深刻的社会画卷。
这部小说永远都不会过时，因为它触及了人性的底线，引人深思，不禁让人对自己的欲望和对社会的期待进行反思。
the great gatsby内容简介
the great gatsby内容简介
《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby）是美国作家弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德于1925年发表的一部小说。
小说讲述了20世纪20年代的美国华丽的浮华生活和东部精英阶层的道德腐败，主要围绕着主人公杰伊·盖茨比和他的痴情追求达芙妮·布坎南展开。
盖茨比是一个自我造就的富翁，为了痴情于达芙妮而建造起奢华的庄园和昂贵的生活方式。
但实际上他是一个心灵孤独的人，因为达芙妮早已嫁给了富商汤姆·布坎南。
在奢华的聚会中，盖茨比认识了汤姆的情人黛西，并与她展开了一段暗恋。
但最终，在汤姆的暴力威胁下，盖茨比的爱情梦想破灭。
《了不起的盖茨比》以优美的语言、细腻的叙事，揭示了人性的卑微与社会的冷酷，以及人们对爱情与名望的狂热追求。
该小说被誉为20世纪美国文学的经典作品，广受读者欢迎和赞誉。
The great Gatsby
• 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。
The Great Gatsby
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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。
《了不起的盖茨比》(The Great Gatsby)500字读后感
《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby）500字读后感《了不起的盖茨比》是一部关于爱情、欲望、社会虚荣和美国梦破灭的文学巨著。
菲茨杰拉德以独特的叙述手法，描绘了20世纪初美国社会的繁华与空虚，通过主人公盖茨比的命运，反映了人性的脆弱和现实社会的冷酷。
小说以卡拉韦家族的一位表妹尼克·卡拉韦为叙述者，通过她的视角展现了盖茨比的传奇故事。
盖茨比是一个神秘而富有的百万富翁，他以对黛西·布坎南的痴迷为中心展开。
黛西是一个典型的“黄金女孩”，她的出现点燃了盖茨比内心对美好未来的向往。
小说中对于社会虚荣和狂欢的描绘令人印象深刻。
在那个繁荣而浮华的时代，人们沉湎于肆意放纵的欢乐中，却忽略了内心的空虚。
盖茨比的豪华派对、奢侈生活，以及那炫目的浮华背后，是一片虚无和寂寞。
盖茨比与黛西之间的爱情线成为小说的核心。
他们曾经相爱，却因为社会阶层的隔阂而无法在一起。
盖茨比通过发财来追求黛西，但最终发现金钱不能填补感情的鸿沟。
小说通过这段悲剧爱情，深刻揭示了财富和社会地位无法解决人类内心渴望真挚爱情的追求。
小说的结尾是悲剧的，盖茨比对黛西的坚持最终以悲惨的命运收场。
这个结局让人对社会的冷漠、虚伪以及美国梦的可贵性产生深刻的反思。
盖茨比的故事成为一个关于理想、现实和破灭的象征，他是一个梦想家，也是一个受困于社会束缚的俘虏。
菲茨杰拉德以精湛的文学技巧，通过对细节的描写和对人物内心的揭示，创造了一个充满深意的小说世界。
小说的寓意和对时代的敏锐观察使它超越了当时的社会背景，成为流传千年的文学经典。
《了不起的盖茨比》是一部思考人生、爱情和梦想的伟大之作。
它通过对人性的深刻洞察，引发读者对于社会现象和个人命运的深刻思考。
这个故事不仅让人陶醉于其优美的文学构思，更在读者心中留下深远的印记，成为探讨人类心灵深处的经典之作。
经典外文书籍
经典外文书籍经典外文书籍是我们阅读的宝库，它们不仅给我们带来知识和智慧，还能丰富我们的思想和视野。
在下面的内容中，我将介绍一些经典外文书籍及其相关参考内容。
1. 《The Great Gatsby》- 弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德这本小说是20世纪美国文学的经典之作，描绘了20世纪20年代的美国社会和人性的缺陷。
该书被广泛认为是对美国梦的研究，以及对物质主义和空虚生活的批判。
参考内容：这本书的参考内容可以包括对主题的深入探讨，如美国梦的定义和实现的可能性。
可以分析小说中的角色、情节和象征意义。
还可以研究作者的写作技巧和文化背景。
2. 《1984》- 乔治·奥威尔这本小说是对权力和专制主义的强烈批判，以及对个人自由和隐私权的忧虑。
它描绘了一个被极权主义政权控制的世界，追踪并惩罚任何反对者。
参考内容：这本书的参考内容可以包括对极权主义和思想控制的研究。
可以分析小说中的政府体系、新闻媒体、社会控制和思想审查等方面。
还可以探讨作者的政治观点和他对未来的预言。
3. 《To Kill a Mockingbird》- 哈珀·李这本小说以南方小镇为背景，通过一个少女的视角，讲述了种族歧视和社会不公义的故事。
它深刻地刻画了人类的善恶并鼓励反对不公正的行为。
参考内容：这本书的参考内容可以包括对种族歧视和社会不公义的分析，以及对人性的思考。
可以研究小说中的角色、情节和象征性意义。
还可以探讨作者的写作手法和南方美国社会的历史背景。
4. 《Pride and Prejudice》- 简·奥斯汀这本小说是英国文学的经典之作，以嘲讽和幽默的方式描绘了19世纪英国社会的等级制度和婚姻观念。
它强调了个人品质和价值观的重要性。
参考内容：这本书的参考内容可以包括对19世纪英国社会和婚姻观念的研究。
可以分析小说中的角色、对话和社会习俗。
还可以探讨作者的写作风格和她对女性地位的看法。
5. 《The Catcher in the Rye》- J·D·塞林格这本小说以一个叛逆的青少年的视角，讲述了对社会虚伪和成人世界的反叛。
great gatsby英文梗概
great gatsby英文梗概
摘要：
1.了解《了不起的盖茨比》的英文梗概
2.梗概的主要内容
3.梗概的重要性
正文：
《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby）是美国作家F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德（F.Scott Fitzgerald）创作的一部小说，被认为是美国文学史上最杰出的作品之一。
这部小说通过讲述20 世纪20 年代长岛富人阶层的生活，揭示了当时的美国梦以及社会道德的沦丧。
梗概的主要内容
《了不起的盖茨比》的英文梗概讲述了在20 世纪20 年代长岛的富人阶层中，一位名叫杰伊·盖茨比（Jay Gatsby）的富有男人举办的一系列豪华派对。
这些派对的目的是吸引他的爱人黛西·布坎南（Daisy Buchanan），但最终他们的爱情故事以悲剧收场。
小说通过这个故事，展示了当时的美国梦以及社会道德的沦丧。
梗概的重要性
梗概对于读者来说具有重要的参考价值。
首先，通过梗概，读者可以迅速了解小说的主要内容和故事情节，从而决定是否值得花时间阅读。
其次，梗概可以帮助读者在阅读过程中更好地理解小说中的各种象征和隐喻，提高阅读效果。
最后，梗概还可以为读者提供一个整体框架，帮助他们更好地把握小说的
主题和作者的创作意图。
总之，《了不起的盖茨比》的英文梗概对于读者来说具有重要的参考价值。
了解梗概可以帮助读者更好地理解小说的内容、主题和作者的创作意图。
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.
FamouБайду номын сангаас lines
• 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.
THEGREATGATSBY了不起的盖茨比全解
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(了不起的盖茨比)_英文介绍及赏析
The Great Gatsby by 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 Minnesota, 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 bleakness 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 w ays, 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 whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also learns 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 andMyrtle. 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 Gatsby’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 hi s mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange 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 increasingly 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 of 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 fac ilitates the rekindling of the romance between her and Gatsby. The Great Gatsby 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 beautifulsocialite, 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, exhauste d 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 looking through Gatsby’s library, astonished that the b ooks 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 tennis 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 lied 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. Ga tsby’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 forwa rd 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 qual ity 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 forself-invention is what gives Gatsby his qu ality of “greatness”: indeed, the title “The Great Gatsby” is reminiscent of billings for such vaudeville magicians as “The Great 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, whe reas 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 door to Gatsby. Nick is also Daisy’s cousin, which enables him to observe 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 Fitzg erald’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 throug hout 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” t o 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 the appalling spectacle of Gatsby’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 i n 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 fallsfar short of Gatsb y’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 attend 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 parti es evidence the greedy scramble for wealth. The clash between “old money” and “new money” manifests itself in the novel’s symbolic geography: East Egg represents the established aristocracy, West Egg the self-made rich. Meyer Wolfshiem and Gatsby’s fortune symbolize 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 their 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 bul k 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 unworthiness 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 moveback 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 East Egg 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 this stereotype when, at the end of the novel, they simply move to a new house 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 the morning in Chapter VII simply to 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 and 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 am id 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 Gats by’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。
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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。
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• W ha t the a uthor w a nte d to conve y is the lone ly void of pe ople ’s spiritua l w orld • T he la ck of dre a m s (D a isy a nd T om ) • T he m isle a ding of dre a m s (G a tsby )
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T his story ca n se rve a s a re m inde r for us . T o live a m e a ningful life , w e should ca re fully choose som e dre a m s to pursue . A nd in the proce ss of fulfilling our dre a m s , w e should a lw a ys be conscious a bout w ha t w e re a lly de sire . A nyhow , only by pursuing the prope r dre a m s ca n w e fina lly ge t to the de e p springs of ha ppine ss .
• 每当你觉得想要批评什么人的时候，你切要记着， 这个世界上的人并非都具备你禀有的条件。
• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
• .为此，我们将顶住那不停地退回到过去的潮头奋 力向前。
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The Lost Generation
T he Lost G e ne ra tion w a s a group of re be llious youth a ppe a re d in Am e rica a fte r the F irst W orld W a r.
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My reading response
• Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.
The Jazz Age
T he Ja z z Age is the nickna m e in Am e rica of the de ca de of the 1920s, be ginning from 1919 to the C ra sh a t the e nd of 1929. It re fe rs to the “T w e ntie s ” of this ce ntury .T he se te n ye a rs we re , for Am e rica ns , a tim e of ca re fre e prospe rity , isola te d from the world ’s proble m , be w ilde ring gre a t socia l cha nge , a nd a fe ve rish pursuit of ple a sure . “爵士乐时代”（一般指一战以后，经济 大萧条以前的约十年的时间）