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the_great_gatsby(了不起的盖茨比)_英文介绍及赏析

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英文PPT

THE GREAT GATSBY英文PPT

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Gatsby is a poor youth from the Midwest.He falls in love with Daisy,a girl from wealthy family.As a poor lad ,Gatsby is too poor to marry her,so Daisy is marryed to a rich young man named Tom.Determained to win Daisy back,Gatsby earns enough money to buy a magnificent mansion.There he hosts dazzling parties every weekend in the hope of attracting the Daisy's relative and he helps Gatsby to make an appointment.By chance his next-door neighbor,Nick,is Daisy's relative and he helps Gatsby to make an appointment.They finally come and Gatsby meets Daisy again.But he finds Daisy is no longer the ideal love of his dream.A sense of loss and disillusionment come over him.Daisy and Tom do not love each other.In fact,Tom has a mistress by name of Myrtle Wilson,who is the wife of the owner of a garage.

了不起的盖茨比英文简介ppt

了不起的盖茨比英文简介ppt

PART 03
STYLE
artistic style
1.symbolism(象征手法) The novel reveals the practical significance of the young man's American dream in that era, and adopts a unique and profound artistic expression, especially the vivid symbol.(小说在揭示 当时那个年代青年人美国梦的 破灭这一现实意义的主题时 , 采用了独特深刻的艺术表现手 法 , 尤其是生动形象的象征手 法。)
PART 04
TECHNIQUES
This movie is mainly using 3D technology to complete the shooting. Shooting in 3 studio. The villa interior and garden was filmed at No. 1 Studio; swimming pool and private beach is located in No. 2 studio, wharf No. 3 in the studio. Gatsby in his mansion for luxurious banquet. The purpose is to attract attention. Daisy like snowflakes in the air of the night of the fireworks, confetti, and music is full of energy, all of these are the Gatsby party portrayal, the performance of the flashy but empty social conditions. These scenes to photography and 3D technology together to shoot up in the banquet is perfect. With the 20mm, or 24mm camera overlooking the whole scene. Then, when the main role in the party and the shuttle, the lift arm photo opportunities swept the banquet guests of the head, and finally back to the ground In the end, close-up Maguire or DiCaprio. In the era of Gatsby, the rich people will create lighting effects in buildings and water, to enliven their party atmosphere as light up like. "So the movie also used the bad boy spotlight PRG, as the party lighting.

great gatsby英文梗概

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。

了不起的盖茨比读书笔记 英文版

了不起的盖茨比读书笔记 英文版

The Mirror of the Social Morality——The Females in The Great Gatsby As an unreplaceable part of the society, females are often considered to be in an unequal status and act a different role from males. By now, they are gaining more and more attention. It’s interesting to analyze their words, their behaviors and their thoughts, because they are usually more sensitive to the changeable society and more likely to react to the change. Therefore, to some extent, they are a mirror of the social morality in their times. In F.Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, there are many female characters. They are of various personalities: some of them look pure while some of them seem to be hypocritic. However, all of them play a vital role in developing the fascinating plot and fitting in the large picture of the theme. From these females, we can learn how they reflect the general corruption of the morality at Jazz Age, especially the value of money and the hypocrisy.One of the most distinctive subject in the novel is the American values, indicated by Myrtle and Daisy especially when they choose between love and money. To begin with, Myrtle, namely Mrs.Wilson, is the wife of a garage owner George B.Wilson. Wilson loves her so much that he even becomes insane after her death.According to this, she should have cherished their marriage. However, she marries him just “because I thought he is a gentleman”(P41), and she has an affair with Tom, a man who even broke her nose. Her choice of husband or lover is not depended on how much he loves her, but merely their status. It is strange, isn’t it? Whether she really loves Tom more than Wilson or not is uncertain, but it is clear that Tom is richer. Although Myrtle lives in lower class of the society, she is alwaysstruggling to go up. Unlike her husband, who is “a blond, spiritless man”(P31) without the desire, she is with “immediately perceptible vitality”(P31). So she tries to improve her status but in a wrong way of having relationship with a “real gentleman” who doesn’t love her.Compared to Myrtle, Daisy is more god-favored. Born in a relevantly rich family, she marries to a equally rich man, Tom as a matter of course. She loves Gatsby, but could not marry him because he was a man of nothing. She does not accept him later because she has no intention to leave the rather distinguished society to which she and Tom belong. When Daisy and Gatsby reunite five years later, the reason she is moved is not the persistent love from Gatsby, but Gatsby’s lavish shirts. How absurd it is!Evidently, no matter from upper or lower class, both of Myrtle and Daisy worth status and wealthy much more than true love as many people do. At that luxury roaring 20th, Americans treasure money most. Therefore it’s no t difficult to understand why people often trade for some materials at the expense of sacrifying their love, their healthy, or something else valuable. Nowadays, some women still prefer to marry a man with large possessions rather than the one she really love, owing to the appetite of material.Moreover, another distinctively perceivable character should be hypocrisy. Firstly, it could be noticed from Daisy. She likes to dress herself and her daughter in white, a color that symbolizes purity. In contrary, she talks to Nick with absolute smirk and insincerity, she praises at party while she dislik es West Egg, she ignores Gatsby’s profound affection, shirk responsibility onto Gatsby after she killed Myrtle and so on. Since all of these behaviors have no thing to do with pure spirit, the white dress becomes an ironic satire on her. In no way can she be as pure as she seems, neither can she perceive what purity is. She even seessomething terrible from this purity that she could never understand, which is the reason why she dislikes West Egg. Similarly, Myrtle is also hypocritic. Even though she is not in upper society, She pretends to be noble. So she lets four taxicabs drive away and finally selects “a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery” (P33), she acts like a queen “throwing a regal homecoming glance” (P34) at the arrival at the apartment, and she laughs, talks and revolves with impressive hauteur at the party she holds. She strives to be elegant but only to make others feel lousy. Her sister Cat herine’s appearance arouse s the same unpleasant feeling. She wears heavy makeup with “solid, sticky bob of red hair, powdered milky white, eyebrows drawn at a rakish angle and pottery bracelets.”(P36) Unfortunately, the restoration of beauty against nature works the opposite way. It doesn’t make her more favorable, but presents a sense of unreal.All of these pretending deeds may seem ridiculous to us, but it is human nature. At times, it may be quite tired to live in disguise. Daisy complains that she is sophisticated. As she said, “I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world”(P24), it’s better to be a simple-minded fool than a calculating woman. However, as a matter of fact, dishonest people are still inclined to wear up a mask so as to attain what they pursue and get where they long for. No one wants to be considered as poor, ignorant, or anything bad, so they disguise by instinct. It’s neither uncommon for vain people to conceal their shabby family background to get what they want, nor unusual for illiterate people to conceal their ignorance. In a word, hypocrisy is not only typical among females, but the common characteristic of human race.As the result, none of the females in the novel has a happy ending: Myrtle dies in theaccident, Daisy becomes a fugitive, Jor dan breaks up with Nick, ect. From above, we can safely draw the conclusion that neither females nor men should make wealth and status the only standard of their life. Life is all about trades. We should never trade their love, their marriage, their happiness of the rest life for wealth. It is essential for us to recognize what is actually valuable in our life. It is also important to take money correctly and pursue it in a reasonable way.。

the_great_gatsby(了不起的盖茨比)_英文介绍及赏析

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。

了不起的盖茨比(The Great Gatsby)简介

了不起的盖茨比(The Great Gatsby)简介

了不起的盖茨比(The Great Gatsby)简介:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.弗朗西斯·斯科特·基·菲茨杰拉德(Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald,1896年9月24日-1940年12月21日),美国二十世纪最杰出的作家之一,《了不起的盖茨比》是其代表作。

美国文学之了不起的盖茨比中英文PPT

美国文学之了不起的盖茨比中英文PPT
Mother: descendant of an Irish immigrant Entering Princeton at 17 Joining the army in 1917; writing The
Romantic Egoist ; falling in love with Zelda Sayre Discharged from the army in 1919; going to New York Returning to St. Paul; publishing This Side of Paradise in 1920 Getting married; going to New York; Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age published in 1920 and 1922 respectively
美国文学之了不起的盖茨比中英文ppt了不起的盖茨比ppt了不起的盖茨比中英文美国文学ppt美国文学史ppt了不起的盖茨比了不起的盖茨比电影了不起的盖茨ey Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s.

The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比

The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比

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Gatsby‟s father
Poor Proud of his son‟s achievement Representative person of Jazz Age
“Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.”
“I hope I never will,” she answered. “ I hate careless people. That‟s why I like You.”
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Do you think Gatsby deserves to be called “the great”?
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Conversation about Driving A Car
“You are a rotten driver,” I protested. “Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn‟t to drive at all.” “I am careful.” “No, you‟re not.” “Well, other people are,” she said lightly.” “What‟s that got to do with it?” “They‟ll keep out my way.” she insisted. “It takes two people to make an accident.”

了不起的盖茨比读后感英文

了不起的盖茨比读后感英文

了不起的盖茨比读后感英文The Great Gatsby is a classic novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald that has captured the hearts of readers for generations. Set in the 1920s, the story follows the enigmatic Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of the American Dream. Through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Carraway, readers are taken on a journey through the lavish parties, extravagant wealth, and the tragic love story that unfolds in the backdrop of the roaring twenties.One of the most striking aspects of The Great Gatsby is its portrayal of the American Dream. Gatsby, the protagonist, is a self-made man who has amassed great wealth and success in pursuit of his one true love, Daisy Buchanan. However, as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Gatsby's wealth and success are merely a facade to mask his deep-seated insecurities and unrequited love for Daisy. This serves as a powerful commentary on the emptiness and disillusionment that can come with thepursuit of material wealth and social status.The novel also offers a scathing critique of the moral decay and superficiality of the Jazz Age. The characters in the novel are often driven by their own selfish desires and are willing to manipulate and deceive others in order to achieve their own ends. The parties, the opulence, and the excesses of the time are portrayed in stark contrast to the emptiness and moral bankruptcy that lies beneath the surface.The character of Jay Gatsby himself is a complex and enigmatic figure. On the surface, he is a man of great wealth and status, but as the story progresses, it becomes clear that he is a deeply flawed and tragic figure. His unrelenting pursuit of Daisy and his inability to let go of the past ultimately lead to his downfall. Gatsby'scharacter serves as a poignant reminder of the dangers of living in the past and the futility of trying to recreate the past.The Great Gatsby is also a story about love and longing. The love story between Gatsby and Daisy is one of the mostcompelling aspects of the novel. Their love is passionate and all-consuming, but it is also ultimately doomed by the constraints of society and the passage of time. The novel offers a poignant exploration of the complexities of love and the ways in which it can be both transformative and destructive.In conclusion, The Great Gatsby is a timeless classic that continues to resonate with readers today. Its exploration of the American Dream, the moral decay of the Jazz Age, the complexity of human relationships, and the tragic figure of Jay Gatsby make it a compelling and thought-provoking read. F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterful storytelling and evocative prose make The Great Gatsby a novel that is not to be missed.。

了不起的盖茨比-英文介绍 PPT

了不起的盖茨比-英文介绍 PPT

The Great Gatsby
Contents
Major Characters
A
Plots
B
Themes & Symbols
C
Nick Carraway
► A Yale graduate originating from the Midwest ► A World War I veteran
► At the start of the plot, a newly arrived resident of West Egg, who is aged 29 (later 30).
Others
► Meyer Wolfsheim- a Jewish friend and mentor of Gatsby's, described as a gambler who fixed the World Series. Wolfsheim appears only twice in the novel, the second time refusing to attend Gatsby's funeral.
Themes
► The story deals with the limits and realities of America's myths of social and class mobility; and the inevitably hopeless lower class aspirations to rise above the station(s) of their birth. ► Using elements of irony and tragic ending, it also delves into themes of excesses of the rich, and recklessness of youth.

最新《了不起的盖茨比》英文ppt讲解学习

最新《了不起的盖茨比》英文ppt讲解学习

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Major Characters
Jay Gatsby
Nick Carraway
Daisy Fay Buchanan
Movie
The Great Gatsby in 2013, by Baz Luhrmann – starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, and Joel Edgerton.
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1922 <Tales of the jazz age>爵士乐时代的故事 < The Beautiful and Damned>漂亮冤家
1925 <The great Gatsby> 了不起的盖茨比
1926 <All the Sad Young Men>所有悲哀的年轻 人 1934 <Tender is the Night>夜色温柔 unfinished work <The Last Tycoon> 最后一个巨头
the 20th century.
பைடு நூலகம்
spokesman for “lost generation” of the 1920s.
the great poet of theJazz Age.
created a new kind of women character.
Zelda
1920 <This side of paradise >天堂的另一边 1921 <Flappers and phlosophers> 姑娘们和哲学家们

lecture eight伟大的盖茨比

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Ginevra King (1898-1980) first met Fitzgerald on January 4, 1915, They met at a sledding party


and, according to letters and diary entries, they both became infatuated (热恋的,着迷 的;).


——《牛津美国文学词典》

《了不起的盖茨比立即搜索》是他(菲茨杰 拉德)最好的小说,该书敏锐地抓住了当代 社会生活的主题,并以象征手法展现了“美 国梦”传奇之下的嘲讽及悲怅。

——T.S.Elliot ...the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making (寻欢 作乐) scene.


Sheilah Graham是个报纸专栏作家,她与菲 茨杰拉德的邂逅是在1930年代后期。菲茨杰 拉德当时在好莱坞当编剧,但不久便宣告失 败。他们俩的关系持续了几年。虽然这时 Zelda已(因精神疾患)入院治疗,但菲茨杰 拉德和她仍然维持着夫妻关系。

Sheilah是《最后的大亨》(The Last Tycoon,菲茨 杰拉德未完成之作)中Kathleen的原型,一个年轻 版的Zelda。Sheilah和菲茨杰拉德的关系并非顺风顺 水,有时甚至会发展到拳脚相加的地步,酒后争吵、 相互辱骂更是不在话下。菲茨杰拉德1940年12月 24日殁于Sheilah的公寓,当时她陪在他的身边。几 年后,Sheilah将他们的故事写成小说《痴情恨》 (Beloved Infidel),不久便改编成电影,由格里高 利· 派克(Gregory Peck)饰演菲茨杰拉德,黛博 拉· 蔻儿(Deborah Kerr)饰演Sheilah。

了不起的盖茨比英文总结ppt

了不起的盖茨比英文总结ppt
1920s, beginning from 1919 to the Crash at the end of 1929. It refers to the “Twenties” of this century. These ten years were, for Americans, a time of carefree(无忧无虑的) prosperity (繁荣), isolated from the world’s problem, bewildering(令人 困惑的) great social change, and a feverish(狂热) pursuit( 追求) of pleasure. These were the ten years when the First World War was just over, when new inventions and manufacturing (制造业)techniques greatly changed.
of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise
(人间天堂), The Beautiful and Damned(美丽与诅咒),
The Great Gatsby(了不起的盖茨比) (his best known), and
Tender Is the Night(夜色温柔). A fifth, unfinished novel,
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Summary of the book
The day of the meeting arrives. Nick's house is perfectly prepared. When the former lovers meet, their behaviour is slightly nervous, but shortly, the two are once again comfortable with each other, leaving Nick alone. As the afternoon progresses, the three move the party from Nick's house to Gatsby's, where he takes special delight in showing Daisy his meticulously(精心地) decorated house, and Daisy is deeply interested in Gatsby's possession.
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The Jazz Age
It is a time marked by frivolity (轻松快活),
carelessness, hedonism(享乐主义) and excitement in the life of the flaming youth.
The Jazz Age is brought vividly to life in The
④He died because he is “the round pegs in the square holes“,so different from the majority. He is the victim of that age
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He joined the army.
In his army days, he met Zelda Sayre.
She is a beautiful southern girl, from a wealthy family. She loved social activities very much and told Fitzgerald that she loved him but she was too expensive for him.
Later, his reputation declined, his wealth fell, his health failed too. At last loneliness and despair combined to ruin Fitzgerald. He died in his forties.
combined to ruin Fitzgerald. He died in 1940 of a heart attack.
Major works:
This Side of Paradise《人间天堂》
Tender Is the Night《夜色温柔》
Tales of the Jazz Age
Gatsby tries to protect Daisy,
and Tom, to whom Daisy has become reconciled, tells Mr. Wilson out of an hatred of his rival that it was Gatsby who killed his wife.
Changes of American dream
At first time, the American dream focused both on material and spirit,all the people want to acquire wealth through their hardworking and had the potential to live a happy and successful life.
Life
Zelda: the prototype of a series of rich,
beautiful women who figure prominently in his fiction.
The young couple frequently went abroad and
lived extravagantly a luxurious life.
Class 1008 Group members:
梁 钰
林 芳
张 瑶
刘梦秋
Contents
Ⅰ. Author
Ⅱ. Background Ⅲ. Plot Ⅳ. Theme
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Spokesman of the Jazz Age
Life
He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on
September 24, 1896.
He received education in Princeton
University. But due to illness and neglect of academic study, he left the university in 1917 without graduation.
To keep earning enough money, Fitzgerald
wrote short stories and novels at a rapid speed.
Life
The 1930s brought relentless decline for
Fitzgerald with a series of misfortunes: his reputation declined, his wealth fell, his health failed.
②he pursued Daisy,becouse he think her heart was as beautiful as her appearance.Daisy is the symbol of "good spirit " in Gatsby'heart.
③But at the end of the story Gatsby died ,he died for Daisy,paided great cost of his misunderstanding of the spirit he pursued.
Zelda had suffered from some serious
mental breakdowns which confined her in a sanitarium (宁养院)for the rest of her life.
Alcoholism, loneliness and despair
Fitzgerald himself is also the portraiture of the age and the American dream.
Firstly, he lived extravagantly a luxurious life and get reputation in the literature by hard work.
But with the development of the industrialization, the pace of life become faster and faster ,meanwhile their mind become vacant.
At last the American dream has turn to the the pursuit of money and capital.
The Jazz Age began with the end of WWI,

at a time when, for the first time, the U.S. had emerged as a world power, and ended with the stock market crash of 1929.
Gatsby manages to meet Daisy again with the help of his neighour and tries to win her back with his extravagant devotion.
Meanwhile Daisy's husband takes another woman, Myrtle Wilson, as his mistress.
Wilson shoots Gatsby and then himself. At the end of the story, Nick broods over Gatsby's dream and decides to go back home to the West.
Theme
Fitzgerald's fictions often deal with the bankruptcy of the American Dream, which is highlighted by the disillusionment of the protagonists' . personal dreams due to the clashes between their romantic vision of life and the sordid
Great Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby: the plot Husband and wife
Tom Buchanan Jay Gatsby Daisy
Former lovers
Nick Carraway:
the narrator of the story, neighbor of Gatsby
All the Sad Young Man 《一代悲哀的年轻人》 The Last Tycoon 《最后的大亨》
The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age
The 20’s are also referred to as “The Jazz
Age,” a term coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1922.
Myrtle Wilson:
Tom‘s mistress who already had a husband-- Mr. Wilson
Plot!
When he was a poor army lieutenant , Gatsby had fallen in love with Daisy, his neighour's beautiful cousin, but later Daisy married Tom Buchanan, who is wealthy but unintelligent and brutal.
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