《了不起的盖茨比》中的“美国梦”+英文
了不起的盖茨比英文简介
PART 01
THEME
• With the social and economic development, the traditional "American Dream" has started to change. The author analyzes the source of Gatsby's "American Dream" and the disillusionment of Gatsby's tragedy, reveals the dark society and empty reality, and the unique artistry to display the dream of review.
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。）
2.narrative skill(叙事手法)
In order to highlight the theme
The film adapted from The great Gatsby.The style is concise and rich lyrical atmosphere.It’s never with details and lay out the stack, and good at expressing each specific details and poetic inner feelings.The great Gatsby used is dignified, affectionate, exquisite language words; sad and moving. The most sincere feelings. The film from first to last was shrouded in a quiet atmosphere, take it leisurely and unoppressively. The film the artistic achievements of the high, even had the film lashed critics also have to admit that the film is exquisitely carved, all threads neatly tied up. No sentence, The brightness dazzles the eyes. fluid, hackneyed and stereotyped expressions, such as the shining and freely flowing style of writing. With countless changes." this works to the combination of poetry and painting, the scenes of the art realm, with a vigorous spirit and magnificent. The feature of this film unique style is rhetoric. The use of many unique metaphor. Metaphor as a semantic level from a conventional form, can make the language of "Defamiliarization", make readers fresh and sensitive to language production, so as to obtain the beauty and emotional level.
《了不起的盖茨比》中的美国梦 the American dream in The Great Gatsby
《了不起的盖茨比》中所折射出的美国梦摘要《了不起的盖茨比》是菲茨杰拉德的一部名著。
作者通过描写盖茨比个人的困境与失败展现了那个时代的悲剧。
在小说中，盖茨比想要通过物质上的成功来赢得爱情,然而，他的梦想是建立于幻想，而不是现实，这是注定要失败的。
因为盖茨比是美国梦的代表，从某种意义上说,盖茨比的失败也预示了美国梦本身的破灭。
本论文首先介绍了作者与小说的主要情节，接着讲述了美国梦的根源与本质。
第三部分分析了盖茨比对财富梦及爱情梦的追求。
最后分析了盖茨比美国梦破碎的原因以及必然性。
关键词：美国梦；金钱；爱情；破灭AbstractThe Great Gatsby is on e of Fitzgerald’s masterpieces. The author presented the tragedy of that age by describing Gatsby’s personal dilemma and failure. In this novel, Gatsby wants to win love through material success. However, his dream is based on illusion rather than reality, which is doomed to fail. Gatsby is the representative of the American dream. In some senses, Gatsby’s failure also predicts the shattering of the American dream itself.This paper begins with an introduction about the author and the brief plot of the novel The Great Gatsby. Then it tells the origin and the essence of the American dream. After that, it gives an analysis of Gatsby’s pursuit of fortune and love dream. Finally, the paper points out the inevitable disillusion of Gatsby’s American dream and presents the factors of the tragedy.Keywords: the American dream; fortune; love; disillusionContents1. Introduction (1)2. The American Dream (2)2.1The Origin of the American Dream and its Development (3)2.2The essence of the American Dream and its Historical Background (4)3. The American Dream Reflected in Gatsby (5)3.1 Gatsby’s Pursuit of Fortune Dream (5)3.2 Gatsby’s Pursuit of Love Dream (6)4. D isillusion of Gatsby’s American Dream (7)4.1Gatsby’s American Dream and His Illegal Activities (8)4.2Gatsby’s American Dream and the Social Environment (9)4.3Gatsby’s American Dream and H is Innocence (10)5. Conclusion (11)References (13)1. IntroductionF. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers, whose works were the samples of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as the literary spokesman of the “Jazz Age”—an age between the end of the First World War and the outbreak of the Great Depression. In many ways, he expressed in his stories the disillusionment of the young generation with “the American dr eam”.Fitzgerald is also considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s. He was born into a middle-class family in St. Paul, Minnesota in the American Midwest. In his short life, Fitzgerald experienced overnight fame and wealth in 1920s but suffered a lot in the 1930s. His first novel—This Side of Paradise was published in 1920 and became a best-seller, through which he got fame and commercial success. With a series of success of his writing, Fitzgerald had a high quality of life. In 1925, Fitzgerald managed to complete The Great Gatsby. This book brought him a critical comment and commercial failure. After that, with the pain of his personal life and the disappearance of the writing inspiration, he never wrote a well-known book any more. In 1940, he died of a heart attack when he was only forty-four.Different from other American writers who also had the American dream as the subject of their works, Fitzgerald impressed his readers from a new perspective.His works depicted the 1920s of America, the period of the high growth of America. With the richness of material, people’s spiritual life was corrupted, especially the life of the upper class. “Many critics have seen Fitzgerald’s artistic achievement in terms of his ability to depict the America n society, its history and its people.”(Tang Sooping, 1992:7)The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick, a man from the Mid-West, going to New York to do business. He heard about his neighbor, a mysterious man called Jay Gatsby, who always held fabulous parties at his house. Gatsby was born in a poor family in the Middle West. During the time of serving in the army, Gatsby fell in love with Daisy, a wealthy girl. However, he was too poor to marryher. When the First World War broke out, Gatsby had to devote himself to the army. Daisy gave up waiting for him and got married with a rich young man Tom Buchanan. However, Daisy’s marriage was not that happy because Tom has betrayed their marriage. He had a mistress after their daughter was born. All these things inspired Gatsby’s desire to get married with Daisy. In order to win back his lost love, it took Gatsby just a few years to make a fortune through illegal business. He bought a mansion located on the opposite side of Daisy’s house with a river lying in between. Gatsby held parties every weekend, hoping that one day Daisy would come but she did not turn up even once. With the help of Nick, the cousin of Daisy, Gatsby met Daisy again five years after they broke away from each other. But now the lady in front of him was no longer the ideal lover in his dream. Instead, she became a selfish and vulgar woman. She refused to give up Tom but at the same time she did not refuse Gatsby.One day, Daisy drove Gatsby’s car after drinking and caused an accid ent in which T om’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson was killed. In order to protect Daisy, Gatsby decided to assume the responsibility. Finally Gatsby was shot by Myrtle’s husband. Only Gatsby’s poor father and Nick attended the funeral. Daisy did not feel any sadness and was on trip with Tom to Europe at that time.2. The American Dream and its Historical BackgroundThe American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals which includes freedom, the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work. The term American Dream was first used by James Truslow Adams in his book The Epic of America. He states, “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature ofwhich they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.” (Adams,1931: 214)It means that everyone, no matter what class he is in, can be successful through his own efforts. This ideology is based on the principle that one should be responsible for himself and seize every opportunity to gain success with courage and through hard work.The American dream has its own particular history background. Since Columbus found “the new continent”, the Europeans went to America for exploitation and colonialism. People in Europe got many kinds of harsh sufferings. They moved to the North American continent because they wanted to get rid of the sufferings in Europe, to be rich, and put into practice their values and philosophies of life. They wanted to escape the religious persecution and rebuild the religious belief.Going to America gave them the aspiration of freedom, the opportunity to be rich. Besides, many unthinkable things in the Old World may turn into reality in this piece of land. From the view of Xing Yan(Xing Yan, 2004:49), “Opportunity follows one after another, and almost everyone will cause a national madness, the United States becomes a country of ‘milk and honey’. Therefore, a large number of people with an American dream swarmed here.”2.1 The Origin of the American Dream and its Development“The American Dream arose in the colonial period and developed in the nineteenth century, based on the assumption of each person, no matter what his origin was, could succeed in changing their social positions and making their dreams come true through their own efforts, and getting new, free and better life. It is what is often referred to as ‘Am erican dream’. ” (Zhao Hongwei, 2003: 2) The American dream is both a romantic expectation and a belief that with toil and devotion people will achieve what their desire. The American dream at its early stage was a Puritan desire for the freedom in religion and creation. However, it becomes broader in meaning along with the expansion to the American West. It includes the pursuit of happiness, the goal to be successful incareer, love and wealth. After the Civil War, the American dream has even more concrete meanings as people strongly believe that with hard work, they can create miracles such as from poor to rich.2.2 The essence of the American DreamAs for the American Dream, it is a belief that a better life could be achieved through hard work and strives. There are several notions behind the American Dream—equal opportunities provided for everyone; the success based on one’s own talents and efforts, and equal opportunity to achieve success.The dream has its constant element, but is ever-changing with the people and with the times. The American dream is seen as one for a better and richer life for everyone, a dream of having opportunities in terms of one’s ability. According to Li Hongwen (黎红雯, 2002:15), “For some, the American dream is a chance to build a successful business and become a millionaire. For others, the American dream is from the log cabin to the White House. For still other people, the American dream is the ladder from the rags to the riches. ”From Li’s view, people may have their own dreams, of which some are small ambitions and others could be great ones.For young students today, the dream might include getting higher education and devoting oneself to helping others. For the middle-aged people today, the dream may include a very high-paying job which one could retire at an early age and have a more satisfying lifestyle. “Everyone had a different idea for his or her American Dream; everyone’s American Dream may be t otally different from each other; that is what makes them all individuals. The dream may differ in that some people wanted to work hard and had financial success, or others might just want to have enough food and income to survive, and make their life simple, healthy and happy. ” (邓年刚，潭素钦, 1997:15)Almost every American has his own American Dream. Almost every American including immigrants and poor people has his desire for a better life. Such a life enables him to own a big house, have much money, delicious food and luxury cars, and enjoy freedom as well. Nomatter what his origin is, he could succeed in through his own efforts. With the success, he is able to get access to higher social position and better life.3. The American Dream Reflected in GatsbyIn the novel, Gatsby’s Amer ican dream was to win daisy’s love, and he spared no effort to do everything to regain the love of Daisy. In order to make his American Dream come true, Gatsby got money by doing illegal trade of alcohol. Also, in the pursuit of his love, he did whatever Daisy asked him to do even at the sacrifice of his precious life.3.1 Gatsby’s Pursuit of Fortune DreamOne part of Gatsby’s dream was to get rich. Gatsby was a man who lived in the lower class, he dreamed for getting recognition, he dreamed for social status, and the true love. But to improve his social status and gain recognition, he was in bad need of money. In his youth, he harbored the innocent wish to be successful by hard work. In order to succeed, he worked tirelessly to do many things and worked out a schedule, which bears the similarity of that of Benjamin Franklin. Gatsby’s schedule displayed his imagination or illusion of his own future, through which a link between his dream and the American dream can be perceived. Gatsby dreamed of becoming a great man. Even when he was a boy, he had his aspirations. He was not content with things as they are and he just wanted to work hard to change the situation.He forced him to get up early in the morning at 6:00 and began to study electricity at 7:15, worked from 8:30A.M. to 4:30 P.M.. “study needed inventions” (Fitzgerald,1993:176) in the evening. He also has a wonderful “general resolves”,(Fitzgerald ,1993:174) which set strict demands on himself, such as “no wasting time，no smoking, read one important book or magazine per week and save $500 per week” .(Fitzgerald, 1993: 174)In the novel, Gatsby was born in a poor family in the Midwest Court. On the contrary, Daisy, the girl that he loved always lived a luxuriant life since she wasborn, so it was her habit to live a life with high quality. To Daisy, it was hard to imagine how she could stand a difficult life without money. But Gatsby was just a poor soldier. If he had not pretended to be a man with great wealth to win Daisy’s love, Daisy would not have fallen in love with him at all five years ago. In Gatsby’s view, he believed money could buy him love and happiness. With such thought in mind, he did everything in order to make money. In just a few years, through illegal trade of alcohol and other dishonest businesses, he made a fortune.A poor young man turned into someone with wealth. Gatsby’s success in fortune was great.To show off his wealth, Gatsby built a house in the old aristocratic style. In the huge and brilliant house, Gatsby would hold fabulous parties at the weekend, which people of status would be happy to attend. They admired his property and wanted to be friends of him.It may seem as if Gatsby had made his fortune dream come true. However, he never succeeded in a real sense through his own hard work, courage, or his strong resolution. He just became rich by conducting illegal businesses, which defied the essence of the American dream.3.2 Gatsby’s Pursuit of Love DreamAnother part of Gatsby’s dream is his dream of love. When he was a soldier in the Army, he fell in love with a rich girl Daisy. But he understood that he was not able to marry such a girl from a wealthy family and of higher social status. Daisy married Tom who had money and status though she did not love the man at all. Gatsby never stopped his love for Daisy; instead, he could not help recalling her, his first love.The most significant to Gatsby was to repeat the past with Daisy day and night and to get the lost pure love. As soon as he had money, Gatsby started to be in chase of his love to repeat the past. To fulfill his love dream, the first thing he did was to buy a luxurious house in front of Daisy’s house across the bay. Then he held parties every weekend night to draw Daisy’s attention. He believed that Daisy may come over to his mansion one day. However, Daisy never turned up. So Gatsby asked Nick to invite Daisy to his house for a tea. At last he had achance to express his love to Daisy and got Daisy back from Tom.In the novel, his love to Daisy is true and pure. When he saw Daisy again, he was even speechless. After Gatsby reappeared with his wealth and his loyal love for her, she seemed to be touched and tried to resume her relationship with him, without any guilt to her husband. For Daisy, what she really wanted was not a romantic lover with no status, but a man who could give her a comfortable life and a respected social standing.Gatsby did not change his mind of marrying Daisy even when he became an adult. Daisy was the first and the only woman whom he loved in his life. His love for Daisy kept him away from other women and “he would never so much as look at a friend’s wife.”(Fitzgerald, 1993:47) That’s the reason why “no girls would swoon backward on Gatsby at his parties.” (Fitzgerald, 1993:33) Gatsby had been so devoted to her. He loved her so much that he was simply blind of her essential defect—Daisy gave more concern to status and luxury life..Gatsby’s dream of love was closely associated with his dream of money. He believed that the money could help him get everything, but he did not regard the pursuit of money as the ultimate goal. The reason that he was after money was just for his love dream. The dream of being rich and the dream of winning the love of Daisy are integrated. The former is a means and the latter is his ultimate goal, without which the former may never become true. Without money Gatsby and Daisy could never have the opportunity to rekindle old dreams. With a lot of money, Gatsby would be more confident in his pursuit of his love dream.4. Disillusion of Gatsby’s American DreamJay Gatsby, the embodiment of the American dream，was doomed to fail because the American political ideals contradicted the actual existing social system．In the novel, Fitzgerald described and contrasted the difference between East and West Egg, showed the separation between the upper class and the lower class, Gatsby spent his whole life making money and winning status so that hecould win Daisy back. That’s what motivated him to move to West Egg, and made money by any means. After that, he held extravagant parties every weekend, did what Daisy asked him to. Gatsby’s success in fortune was great. So was his strong will for love and to achieve his life goal. He finally became the upper class’s deputy. No matter how wonderful his parties were, he could not change his poor family background.Gatsby did not know clearly what kind of girl Daisy was. What Daisy wanted was not love but a guarantee of comfort and wealth in life. Owing to his unrealistic dream, Gatsby ended up with tragedy. As for Gatsby’s death, it may seem that he deserved the punishment for what he did. Yet he sacrificed himself for Daisy who did not even turn up at his funeral. And the saddest thing was that Daisy, did not feel any regret o r sorrow for Gatsby’s death, she went traveling with his husband Tom. There was nothing left for Gatsby. All the things he got have gone with his death, including his wealth and love. “Daisy goes together with her husband to another city happily while Gatsby is murdered mistakenly, improves that all his great characterize means nothing. In other words, Gatsby’s final American Dream, which is to win Daisy, is totally a failure.” (杨慧群, 2002:3)The shattering of his dream of love is a reflection of the breaking of American dream. Owing to his unrealistic dream, Gatsby ended up with tragedy.Living in that age, Gatsby had in his mind the value orientation. He thought the American dream embodied the personal success or self-fulfillment for those hard-working people. His idea of success was measured by money, which was misleading. In his view, success was the glamour brought about by huge wealth. The American dream in his time was somewhat hollow for people were mainly after money. In this sense, Gatsby’s dream, just as the American dream, is just an illusion4.1 Gatsby’s American Dream and His Illegal ActivitiesAmerican dream is essentially a spirit to inspire people to make progress and it has a positive meaning. In 1920s, after the World War I, the American dream were decadent, corrupt, and the original hard work, frugality, temperance andother values were weak. America society came into the stage of monopoly capitalism. The American society developed rapidly with its economy booming. As Americans became money worshippers, they became greedy. Money was the only goal which they were striving for. So 1920s was a time without any belief, a time for lost generation, and a time of tragedies.“America was going on the greatest, gaudiest spree in history and there was going to be plenty to tell about it. The whole golden boom was in the air—its splendid generosities, its outrageous corruptions and the tortuous death struggle of the old America in prohibition. In such a debauched social context, what the traditional American dream advocated to strive for success through hard work turned out to be futile. Gatsby was greatly influenced by the instruction of the traditional dream.”(陈卓, 2009:143)Yet, no matter how hard he worked to gain material success, Gatsby gained wealth through dishonest conduct. He involved himself in the illegal trade of wine, through which he made his fortune. In this sense, he did not follow the doctrines of American dream. He made his way into a world where nothing is more important than money, where moral integrity is sacrificed.Fitzgerald presented before his readers the disillusion of American dream, which is seen as the synonym for money. With money as an important ingredient of the dream, it is quite natural that people may become greedy and crazy for money. The novel—The Great Gatsby may seem to be shallow with much description of parties and jazz in 1920s. However, by probing into the novel, it can be seen that the story is a social commentary on the corruption and the disillusive effect of materialism on various people. Gatsby is a typical example who turned from rug into riches with corrupted morality. But money was not his final goal. His final goal was to win the love of Daisy with his wealth.4. 2 Gatsby’s American Dream and the Social EnvironmentThe darkness and emptiness of the capitalist society account for the shattering of Gatsby’s American dream. When Gatsby was serving in the army,Daisy, the girl whom he loved, promised to wait for him till he made his fortune so that they could be married. But when Gatsby came back, Daisy had married Tom Buchanan, a millionaire, whom she did not have an affection. Gatsby was seriously hurt and decided to win back his love.Gatsby’s motive to make a fortune was driven by his attempt to get a step closer to Daisy again. Gatsby believed that if he wanted to win Daisy’s heart, he needed to be more affluent in wealth and more successful than Tom.Tom Buchanan, a representative of the solid wealthy class，was corrupt，but not weak. He would not allow his authority to be challenged．In the eyes of Tom and Daisy, no matter how much money or power Gatsby may possess, he was still “nobody from nowhere” because he has “no comfortable family standing behind him.” (Fitzgerald, 1993:95) The competition between Tom and Gatsby was not only a battle between rivals for love, but also a battle between representatives of the two different social classes.In the novel, the difference between East and West Egg can be perceived as a dividing line between the upper and the lower class, the four geographical locations in the novel ranging from East and West Egg to New York City fit a special theme or a typical character. West Egg lived people like Gatsby, who were indulged in extravagant life. They were representatives of the newly emerged rich alongside the established aristocracy of the 1920s. East Egg was the place for people such as the Buchanan, who were enjoying great wealth and high status as well. They were the symbol of the old establishment and aristocracy with ongoing dominance in American society. Gatsby’s romantic idealism does not fit in with those in East Egg. He tried hard to climb up the social ladder but he could not get himself fit in or really accepted due to his shabby background. In such a society, it was rather hard for Gatsby, a man from East Egg to melt himself with those symbolizing the old establishment and the old aristocracy. From this perspective, his American dream in the pursuit of love was hard to come true. 4.3 Gatsby’s American Dream and His InnocenceThe disillusion of Gatsby’s American dream may be related to his personalfactor. Gatsby’s love for Daisy was to the extent of obsession. It was really touching, but he chose the wrong person to love for. In his heart, Daisy was beautiful and innocent, and she represented all the merits in the upper class of America. Gatsby had in his mind the perfect image of Daisy, and treated her as the avatar of dream. However, Daisy was not the perfect girl he imagined. Born in a rich family, Daisy was used to the extravagant life. Even “her voice is full of money”.(Fitzgerald, 1993: 119) In the eyes of Daisy, love, when confronted with money, retreated to an inferior position. She believed in materialism and wanted to live in comfort. However, out of his innocence, Gatsby failed to see through her even upon his death. In addition, he did not see clearly the gap between Daisy and him—the status or the two different classes. He was naïve enough to believe that with his effort, he could be materially rich and hence he could gain status afterwards. He was naive enough to believe that with wealth and status, he was able to make his American dream of love come true.His life ended up in tragedy which had it root in his blind pursuit of love and fantasy. Besides, the lack of clear understanding of the upper middle class society was factor for the shattering of his dream. Though he became rich, it was unlikely that he would get access to the upper society.5. ConclusionFitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a significant novel in the history of the American literature．It is the mirror of an era, the Jazz Age. People of that time tend to believe in wealth, which corrupts the original belief of American Dream. They consider money as a simple method and a tool o n one’s way to success. Gatsby is just the miniature of the American society of that age reflecting the distortion of the American dream itself. Gatsby works hard for his dream and is ruined by his dream. It is his American Dream that makes him succeed, be destroyed and died pathetically in the end. Therefore, Gatsby’s tragedy is related to that age he was in, and Gatsby’s traged y also indicates the shattering of the American dream. American Dream affects generations of Americans. No matterhow it changes, its theme is the pursuit of freedom, equality, the realization of one’s own dream, and a high quality life.The Great Gatsby criticizes the society in which people are after money and low in morality. By taking a close look at the novel, Gatsby’s failure in the pursuit of his dream arises from mainly three factors. Firstly, Gatsby gained wealth from doing illegal businesses. Secondly, he naively thought he could enter the upper class in a society where equality between people was hard to realize. Finally, he was so innocent as to love a wrong person who was just selfish, and money-worshipping. 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(完整版)论《了不起的盖茨比》中美国梦的破灭 英文
The Disillusion of American Dream in The Great Gatsby The American Dream is the dream of a land in which life should be richer and better for everyone, providing them with opportunities according to their abilities or achievements。
It encourages people to work through efforts， courage， creativity and determination to move towards prosperity, rather than rely on any other forces. In one time， it did help some people to fight for success. But as time flew， the American dream went to the other side。
So in this case， the essay aims to discuss the disillusion of the so—called American Dream—- also the theme of The Great Gatsby， with the analysis of the tragedy of its main character-- Gatsby。
In the novel, Gatsby’s American Dream is not material possession. He only comes into riches so that he can fulfill his true dream———— to reunite with Daisy。
了不起的盖茨比The_great_Gatsby英文
Jay Gatsby was a son of shiftless and unsuccessful farm people in the middle west of USA. When he joined the army, he met Daisy, a beautiful woman from the upper class, and fell in love with her. Then, he took apart in the war and five years later when he came back from the Europe, Daisy had got married with a rich boy Tom.
• From the novel, we can find that he looked Daisy as the embodiment of beauty, purity and nobility and he thought that being together with her is like the being at wonderland which represented all the beautiful things .
much and would devote his whole emotion and energy to her,
and Tom, a man who betrayed her but had a stable social
status, she choose the latter. Because she was a typical
The Great Gatsby
—— 马春香 戚煜 王亚丽 王怡 吴凯莉 谢静
了不起的盖茨比 英文 the great gatsby
However, in real life, Daisy is far from what Gatsby imagine. She is a selfish, shallow and timid girl and all she want is money and upper class life. Finally Gatsby’s dream broken and it also symbolize the broken of the American dream. The essence of the tragedy of Gatsby is the tragedy of American idealism. Although Gatsby’s effort did not pay off, his spirit of struggling to realize his dream and change the fate is moving and deserves our admiration.
Gatsby and Daisy meet again with the help of Nick. When Tom knew this, he is burst into anger and they have a quarrel. With extremely nervous, Daisy drives the car and killed Tom’s mistress Myrtle accidentally. However, Tom implies Myrtle’s husband Wilson that it is Gatsby who killed her wife. In extreme anger Wilson shoot Gatsby and suicide. At the end of this movie, when Nick held a funeral for Gatsby, none of his old friends join. Nick is disappointed to the dark society of New York so he leave the city and go back to his home in the American Midwest.
The Great Gatsby(了不起的盖茨比)
The Corrupted American Dream
• The American Dream in the novel is more about materialism and selfish pursuit of pleasure (not true love) • No amount of hard work can change where Gatsby came from (can one be disconnected from his past at all?)
The Traditional American Dream
★ ( Improving financial situation) 1. getting out of poverty 2. getting good education for kids 3. opening one’s own business 4. getting very rich
★ ( Improving social status)
5. living upper-class lives 6. becoming a senator or something
7. becoming the President
James Truslow Adams `The American Dream`
However…
• Unlike early settlers who came west to America from Europe seeking wealth and freedom or the pioneers who headed west for the same reason, Gatsby turned east not in the hope of building a life but getting rich. • Wealth for him is the only solution to his problems. Therefore,…
the great gatsby(了不起的盖茨比) 英文介绍及赏析
The Great Gatsby F.Scott.FitzgeraldContextFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star-Spangled Banner. Fitzgerald was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Despite being a mediocre student there, he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913. Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead enlisting in the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end.Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama. There he met and fell in love with a wild seventeen-year-old beauty named Zelda Sayre. Zelda finally agreed to marry him, but her overpowering desire for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success. With the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920, Fitzgerald became a literary sensation, earning enough money and fame to convince Zelda to marry him.Many of these events from Fitzgerald’s early life appear in his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, published in 1925. Like Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is a thoughtful young man from Min nesota, educated at an Ivy League school (in Nick’s case, Yale), who moves to New York after the war. Also similar to Fitzgerald is Jay Gatsby, a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a military camp in the South.Having become a celebrity, Fitzgerald fell into a wild, reckless life-style of parties and decadence, while desperately trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money. Similarly, Gatsby amasses a great deal of wealth at a relatively young age, and devotes himself to acquiring possessions and throwing parties that he believes will enable him to win Daisy’s love. As the giddiness of the Roaring Twenties dissolved into the ble akness of the Great Depression, however, Zelda suffered a nervous breakdown and Fitzgerald battled alcoholism, which hampered his writing. He published Tender Is the Night in 1934, and sold short stories to The Saturday Evening Post to support his lavish lifestyle. In 1937, he left for Hollywood to write screenplays, and in 1940, while working on his novel The Love of the Last Tycoon, died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four.Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation. Prohibition, the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1919), made millionaires out of bootleggers, and an underground culture of revelry sprang up. Sprawling private parties managed to elude police notice, and “speakeasies”—secret clubs that sold liquor—thrived. The chaos and violence of World War I left America in a state of shock, and the generation that fought the war turned to wild and extravagant living to compensate. The staid conservatism and timeworn values of the previous decade were turned on their ear, as money, opulence, and exuberance became the order of the day.Like Nick in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald found this new lifestyle seductive and exciting, and, like Gatsby, he had always idolized the very rich. Now he found himself in an era in which unrestrained materialism set the tone of society, particularly in the large cities of the East. Even so, like Nick, Fitzgerald saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to the moral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath, and part of him longed for this absent moral center. In many way s, The Great Gatsby represents Fitzgerald’s attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age. Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald was driven by his love for a woman who symbolized everything he wanted, even as she led him toward everything he despised.Plot OverviewNick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night.Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with wh om Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also l earns a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose.As the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of Ga tsby’s legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smile, and calls everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arr ange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair.After a short time, Tom grows in creasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her. Though Tom is himself involved in an extramarital affair, he is deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful to him. He forces the group to drive into New York City, where he confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom asserts that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announces to his wife that Gatsby is a criminal—his fortune comes from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realizes that her allegiance is to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sends her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt him.When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby’s car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intends to take the blame. The next day, Tom tells Myrtle’s husband, George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car. George, who has leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover, finds Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead. He then fatally shoots himself.Nick stages a small funeral for Gatsby, ends his relationship with Jordan, and moves back to the Midwest to escape the disgust he feels for the people surrounding Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby’s power to transform his dreams into reality is what makes him “great,” Nick reflects that the era o f dreaming—both Gatsby’s dream and the American dream—is over.Character ListNick Carraway - The novel’s narrator, Nick is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business. Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. After moving to West Egg, a fictional area of Long Island that is home to the newly rich, Nick quickly befriends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. As Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he facil itates the rekindling of the romance between her and Gatsby. The GreatGatsby is told entirely through Nick’s eyes; his thoughts and perceptions shape and color the story.Nick Carraway (In-Depth Analysis)Jay Gatsby - The title character and protagonist of the novel, Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night, but no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune. As the novel progresses, Nick learns that Gatsby was born James Gatz on a farm in North Dakota; working for a millionaire made him dedicate his life to the achievement of wealth. When he met Daisy while training to be an officer in Louisville, he fell in love with her. Nick also learns that Gatsby made his fortune through criminal activity, as he was willing to do anything to gain the social position he thought necessary to win Daisy. Nick views Gatsby as a deeply flawed man, dishonest and vulgar, whose extraordinary optimism and power to transform his dreams into reality make him “great” nonetheless.Jay Gatsby (In-Depth Analysis)Daisy Buchanan - Nick’s cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful socialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is sardonic and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband’s constant infidelity.Daisy Buchanan (In-Depth Analysis)Tom Buchanan - Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick’s social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family, Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.Jordan Baker - Daisy’s friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest: she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth.Myrtle Wilson - Tom’s lover, whose lifeless husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle herself possesses a fierce vitality and desperately looks for a way to improve her situation. Unfortunately for her, she chooses Tom, who treats her as a mere object of his desire.George Wilson - Myrtle’s husband, the lifeless, exhausted owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the valley of ashes. George loves and idealizes Myrtle, and is devastated by her affair with Tom. George is consumed with grief when Myrtle is killed. George is comparable to Gatsby in that both are dreamers and both are ruined by their unrequited love for women who love Tom.Owl Eyes - The eccentric, bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby’s mansion. Nick finds Owl Eyes look ing through Gatsby’s library, astonished that the boo ks are real.Klipspringer - The shallow freeloader who seems almost to live at Gatsby’s mansion, taking advantage of his host’s money. As soon as Gatsby dies, Klipspringer disappears—he does not attend the funeral, but he does call Nick about a pair of te nnis shoes that he left at Gatsby’s mansion. Analysis of Major CharactersJay GatsbyThe title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man, around thirty years old, who rose from an impoverished childhood in rural North Dakota to become fabulously wealthy. However, he achieved this lofty goal by participating in organized crime, including distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities. From his early youth, Gatsby despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication—he dropped out of St. Olaf’s College after only two weeks because he could not bear the janitorial job with which he was paying his tuition. Though Gatsby has always wanted to be rich, his main motivation in acquiring his fortune was his love for Daisy Buchanan, whom he met as a young military officer in Louisville before leaving to fight in World War I in 1917. Gatsby immediately fell in love with Daisy’s aura of luxury, grace, and charm, and l ied to her about his own background in order to convince her that he was good enough for her. Daisy promised to wait for him when he left for the war, but married Tom Buchanan in 1919, while Gatsby was studying at Oxford after the war in an attempt to gain an education. From that moment on, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, and his acquisition of millions of dollars, his purchase of a gaudy mansion on West Egg, and his lavish weekly parties are all merely means to that end.Fitzgerald delays the introduction of most of this information until fairly late in the novel. Gats by’s reputation precedes him—Gatsby himself does not appear in a speaking role until Chapter III. Fitzgerald initially presents Gatsby as the aloof, enigmatic host of the unbelievably opulent parties thrown every week at his mansion. He appears surrounded by spectacular luxury, courted by powerful men and beautiful women. He is the subject of a whirlwind of gossip throughout New York and is already a kind of legendary celebrity before he is ever introduced to the reader. Fitzgerald propels the novel forward through the early chapters by shrouding Gatsby’s background and the source of his wealth in mystery (the reader learns about Gatsby’s childhood in Chapter VI and receives definitive proof of his criminal dealings in Chapter VII). As a result, the reader’s first, distant impressions of Gatsby strike quite a different note from that of the lovesick, naive young man who emerges during the later part of the novel. Fitzgerald uses this technique of delayed character revelation to emphasize the theatrical qualit y of Gatsby’s approach to life, which is an important part of his personality. Gatsby has literally created his own character, even changing his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby to represent his reinvention of himself. As his relentless quest for Daisy demonstrates, Gatsby has an extraordinary ability to transform his hopes and dreams into reality; at the beginning of the novel, he appears to the reader just as he desires to appear to the world. This talent for self-invention is what gives Gatsby his qual ity of “greatness”: indeed, the title “The Great Gatsby” is reminiscent of billings for such vaudeville magicians as “The Gre at Houdini” and “The Great Blackstone,” suggesting that the persona of Jay Gatsby is a masterful illusion.Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.(See Important Quotations Explained)As the novel progresses and Fitzgerald deconstructs Gatsby’s self-presentation, Gatsby reveals himself to be an innocent, hopeful young man who stakes everything on his dreams, not realizing that his dreams are unworthy of him. Gatsby invests Daisy with an idealistic perfection that she cannot possibly attain in reality and pursues her with a passionate zeal that blinds him to her limitations. His dream of her disintegrates, revealing the corruption that wealth causes and the unworthiness of the goal, much in the way Fitzgerald sees the American dream crumbling in the 1920s, as America’s powerful optimism, vitality, and individualism become subordinated to the amoral pursuit of wealth.Gatsby is contrasted most consistently with Nick. Critics point out that the former, passionate and active, and the latter, sober and reflective, seem to represent two sides of Fitzgerald’s personality. Additionally, where as Tom is a cold-hearted, aristocratic bully, Gatsby is a loyal and good-hearted man. Though his lifestyle and attitude differ greatly from those of George Wilson, Gatsby and Wilson share the fact that they both lose their love interest to Tom.Nick CarrawayIf Gatsby represents one part of Fitzgerald’s personality, the flashy celebrity who pursued and glorified wealth in order to impress the woman he loved, then Nick represents another part: the quiet, reflective Midwesterner adrift in the lurid East. A young man (he turns thirty during the course of the novel) from Minnesota, Nick travels to New York in 1922 to learn the bond business. He lives in the West Egg district of Long Island, next doorto Gatsby. Nick is also Daisy’s cousin, which enables him to o bserve and assist the resurgent love affair between Daisy and Gatsby. As a result of his relationship to these two characters, Nick is the perfect choice to narrate the novel, which functions as a personal memoir of his experiences with Gatsby in the summer of 1922.Nick is also well suited to narrating The Great Gatsby because of his temperament. As he tells the reader in Chapter I, he is tolerant, open-minded, quiet, and a good listener, and, as a result, others tend to talk to him and tell him their secrets. Gatsby, in particular, comes to trust him and treat him as a confidant. Nick generally assumes a secondary role throughout the novel, preferring to describe and comment on events rather than dominate the action. Often, however, he functions as Fitzger ald’s voice, as in his extended meditation on time and the American dream at the end of Chapter IX. Insofar as Nick plays a role inside the narrative, he evidences a strongly mixed reaction to life on the East Coast, one that creates a powerful internal conflict that he does not resolve until the end of the book. On the one hand, Nick is attracted to the fast-paced, fun-driven lifestyle of New York. On the other hand, he finds that lifestyle grotesque and damaging. This inner conflict is symbolized througho ut the book by Nick’s romantic affair with Jordan Baker. He is attracted to her vivacity and her sophistication just as he is repelled by her dishonesty and her lack of consideration for other people.Nick states that there is a “quality of distortion” to life in New York, and this lifestyle makes him lose his equilibrium, especially early in the novel, as when he gets drunk at Gatsby’s party in Chapter II. After witnessing the unraveling of Gatsby’s dream and presiding over t he appalling spectacle of Gatsb y’s funeral, Nick realizes that the fast life of revelry on the East Coast is a cover for the terrifying moral emptiness that the valley of ashes symbolizes. Having gained the maturity that this insight demonstrates, he returns to Minnesota in search of a quieter life structured by more traditional moral values.Daisy BuchananPartially based on Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. As a young debutante in Louisville, Daisy was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lied about his background to Daisy, claiming to be from a wealthy family in order to convince her that he was worthy of her. Eventuall y, Gatsby won Daisy’s heart, and they made love before Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, bu t in 1919 she chose instead to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle and who had the support of her parents.After 1919, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, making her the single goal of all of his dreams and the main motivation behind his acquisition of immense wealth through criminal activity. To Gatsby, Daisy represents the paragon of perfection—she has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota and that first attracted him to her. In reality, however, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby’s ideals. She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic. Nick characterizes her as a careless person who smashes things up and then retreats behind her money. Daisy proves her real nature when she chooses Tom over Gatsby in Chapter VII, then allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson even though she herself was driving the car. Finally, rather than a ttend Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no forwarding address.Like Zelda Fitzgerald, Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury. She is capable of affection (she seems genuinely fond of Nick and occasionally seems to love Gatsby sincerely), but not of sustained loyalty or care. She is indifferent even to her own infant daughter, never discussing her and treating her as an afterthought when she is introduced in Chapter VII. In Fitzgerald’s conception of America in the 1920s, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg set.Themes, Motifs & SymbolsThemesThemes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920sOn the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island, New York, The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties and wild jazz music—epitomized in The Great Gatsby by the opulent parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night—resulted ultimately in the corruption of the American dream, as the unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed more noble goals. When World War I ended in 1918, the generation of young Americans who had fought the war became intensely disillusioned, as the brutal carnage that they had just faced made the Victorian social morality of early-twentieth-century America seem like stuffy, empty hypocrisy. The dizzying rise of the stock market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden, sustained increase in the national wealth and a newfound materialism, as people began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels. A person from any social background could, potentially, make a fortune, but the American aristocracy—families with old wealth—scorned the newly rich industrialists and speculators. Additionally, the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919, which banned the sale of alcohol, created a thriving underworld designed to satisfy the massive demand for bootleg liquor among rich and poor alike.Fitzgerald positions the characters of The Great Gatsby as emblems of these social trends. Nick and Gatsby, both of whom fought in World War I, exhibit the newfound cosmopolitanism and cynicism that resulted from the war. The various social climbers and ambitious speculators who attend Gatsby’s parties evidence the greedy scramble for wealth. The clash between “old money” and “new money” manifests itself in the novel’s symbol ic geography: East Egg represents the established aristocracy, West Egg the self-made rich. Meyer Wolfshiem and Gatsby’s fortune s ymbolize the rise of organized crime and bootlegging.As Fitzgerald saw it (and as Nick explains in Chapter IX), the American dream was originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. In the 1920s depicted in the novel, however, easy money and relaxed social values have corrupted this dream, especially on the East Coast. The main plotline of the novel reflects this assessment, as Gatsby’s dream of loving Daisy is ruined by the difference in the ir respective social statuses, his resorting to crime to make enough money to impress her, and the rampant materialism that characterizes her lifestyle. Additionally, places and objects in The Great Gatsby have meaning only because characters instill them with meaning: the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg best exemplify this idea. In Nick’s mind, the ability to create meaningful symbols constitutes a central component of the American dream, as early Americans invested their new nation with their own ideals and values.Nick compares the green bulk of America rising from the ocean to the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Just as Americans have given America meaning through their dreams for their own lives, Gatsby instills Daisy with a kind of idealized perfection that she neither deserves nor possesses. Gatsby’s dream is ruined by the unworthiness of its object, just as the American dream in the 1920s is ruined by the unworthi ness of its object—money and pleasure. Like 1920s Americans in general, fruitlessly seeking a bygone era in which their dreams had value, Gatsby longs to re-create a vanished past—his time in Louisville with Daisy—but is incapable of doing so. When his dream crumbles, all that is left for Gatsby to do is die; all Nick can do is move back to Minnesota, where American values have not decayed.The Hollowness of the Upper ClassOne of the major topics explored in The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth, specifically, how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country’s richest families. In the novel, West Egg and its denizens represent the newly rich, while EastEgg and its denizens, especially Daisy and Tom, represent the old aristocracy. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. Gatsby, for example, lives in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce, and does not pick up on subtle social signals, such as the insincerity of the Sloanes’ invitation to lunch. In contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by the Buchanans’ tasteful home and the flowing white dresses of Daisy and Jordan Baker.What the old aristocracy possesses in taste, however, it seems to lack in heart, as the East Eggers prove themselves careless, inconsiderate bullies who are so used to money’s ability to ease their minds that they never worry about hurting others. The Buchanans exemplify th is stereotype when, at the end of the novel, they simply move to a new ho use far away rather than condescend to attend Gatsby’s funeral. Gatsby, on the other hand, whose recent wealth derives from criminal activity, has a sincere and loyal heart, remaining outside Daisy’s window until four in t he morning in Chapter VII simply t o make sure that Tom does not hurt her. Ironically, Gatsby’s good qualities (loyalty and love) lead to his death, as he takes the blame for killing Myrtle rather than letting Daisy be punished, and the Buchanans’ bad qualities (fickleness and selfishness) allow them to remove themselves from the tragedy not only physically but psychologically.MotifsMotifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.GeographyThroughout the novel, places and settings epitomize the various aspects of the 1920s American society that Fitzgerald depicts. East Egg represents the old aristocracy, West Egg the newly rich, the valley of ashes the moral and social decay of America, and New York City the uninhibited, amoral quest for money and pleasure. Additionally, the East is connected to the moral decay and social cynicism of New York, while the West (including Midwestern and northern areas such as Minnesota) is connected to more traditional social values an d ideals. Nick’s analysis in Chapter IX of the story he has related reveals his sensitivity to this dichotomy: though it is set in the East, the story is really one of the West, as it tells how people originally from west of the Appalachians (as all of the main characters are) react to the pace and style of life on the East Coast.WeatherAs in much of Shakespeare’s work, the weather in The Great Gatsby unfailingly matches the emotional and narrative tone of the story. Gatsby and Daisy’s reunion begins amid a pouring rain, proving awkward and melancholy; their love reawakens just as the sun begins to come out. Gatsby’s climactic confrontation with Tom occurs on the hottest day of the summer, under the scorching sun (like the fatal encounter between Mercutio and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet). Wilson kills Gatsby on the first day of autumn, as Gatsby floats in his pool despite a palpable chill in the air—a symbolic attempt to stop time and restore his relationship with Daisy to the way it was five years before, in 1917.SymbolsSymbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.The Green LightSituated at the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock and barely visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn, the green light represents Gatsb y’s hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby associates it with Daisy, and in Chapter I he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead him to his goal. Because Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream, the green light also symbolizes that more generalized ideal. In Chapter IX, Nick compares the green light to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have looked to early settlers of the new nation.The Valley of AshesFirst introduced in Chapter II, the valley of ashes between West Egg and New York City consists of a long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. It represents the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure. The valley of ashes also symbolizes the plight of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality as a result.The Eyes of Doctor T. J. EckleburgThe eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are a pair of fading, bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes. They may represent God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland, though the novel never makes this point explicitly. Instead, throughout the novel, Fitzgerald suggests that symbols only have meaning because characters instill them with meaning. The connection between the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg and God exists only in George Wilson’s grief-stricken mind. This lack of concrete significance contributes to the unsettling nature of the image. Thus, the eyes also come to represent the essential meaninglessness of the world and the arbitrariness of the mental process by which people invest objects with meaning. Nick e xplores these ideas in Chapter VIII, when he imagines Gatsby’s final thoughts as a depressed consideration of the emptiness of symbols and dreams.。
了不起的盖茨比中黛西的“美国梦”象征
Analysis of Daisy in The Great Gatsby as the symbolization of theAmerican DreamClass Number: 2012213101Student Number: 2012212505Chinese Name:张诗雨摘要：《了不起的盖茨》比作为迷失一代的代表作，是描写“美国梦”最为成功的作品之一。
本文通过比较黛西的人物形象以及20世纪初期美国“爵士”时代“美国梦”的特点，最终得出黛西正是当时“美国梦”的象征。
Abstract:The great Gatsby as the Representative of the lost generation, is one of the most successful works that describe the "American Dream". Through the comparison of Daisy's characters and early 20th century American "Jazz Age" American Dream "characteristics, we can finally conclude that Daisy is emblematic of the" American Dream ".1.IntroductionFrancis Scott Fitzgerald, an outstanding novelist in 20th century literary, is called the representative writer of "Lost Generation" and is undoubtedly his masterpiece. Yet the exact role which Daisy plays in Gatsby's American Dream is still subject to argument. People discuss Daisy from different theories such as feminism and Commodification.However, personally, we can consider Daisy as the symbolization of Gatsby’s distorted “American dream”. Daisy will not applaud to Gatsby’s efforts but only worship his extravagance and vanity, just like the degeneration of the American dream which does not emphasize the pursuit of dreams and simply praise those who look glamorous success. The impractical dream leads to an eager for quick success and instant benefit, and characters are extremely devious in his efforts to achieve his heart's desire. However, when they realize that their so-called dream has already been out of their original intention, what they get is glossy shell without any substantive content. This essay compares the dual personality of Daisy and the disillusionment of the American dream to unscramble and understand the root of Gatsby's tragedy is the misinterpretation of dream.2.The Disillusion of American Dream2.1 The origin of American dreamThe idea of the American dream is evoked earlier then the foundation of America by European immigrants who had all sorts of hopes and aspirations for what was a new and largely unexplored continent. Considering themselves as “people elected by the God”, they tend to be hardworking, thrifty and successful. This religious faith provided not only tremendous spiritual energy for the exploiture of the New England colonies, but also profound influence on the national awareness and culture of the whole America. In the evolution of American dream, there rose up models of success,who was nobody at the beginning and somebody at last, who strengthened the belief of the American dream in people's hearts rather than minds, who seemed to prove where there was a dream there was a way. Among whom Benjamin Franklin was the typical successful well-known self-made men. In the end of the novel we know that Gatsby took Franklin as his model and followed exactly what he did.2.2 The distortion of Gatsby’s American dreamGatsby was born in poor family, but since he was a child he held his big American dream that through his own personal strive to change his destiny, to gain wealth, success and live a happy life. He made a detailed routine according to the behavior of Franklin to help his own self-improvement. From the schedule, a juvenile who was pursuing his dream is fighting against all the difficulties with his effort and strong will. Just like Franklin’s list of thirteen virtues, several of the “General Determinations” listed on the list of Gatsby’s schedule are very similar such as no more smoking，reading one improving book or magazine per week, be better to parents ,saving $5 .00 to $3 .00 per week. He didn't realize and feel upset about how much trouble facing him then.If he follows his routine he can actually achieve his goals by his own. But when Gatsby is eighteen years old, with no aim for life and the starvation of the success, he took the shortcut which changed his life. Dan Cody, as Gatsby’s first educator, initiates the desire for American Dream in the young Gatsby’s heart and is also a live idol of the American dream in Gatsby’s world. Then Gatsby is employed by him and later inherits a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars from him. And Gatsby use the money to sell bootleg liquor and extort in the stock market. After years of diligent work, Gatsby at last achieves the financial success and owns both wealth and power. But in the end, Gatsby is shot dead.Gatsby lives in the 1920s Jazz Age when the old standard has gone, and most of the people in that age are money-worshippers. They no longer want to follow the Puritanism doctrines and the preaching in the Bible. They are drinking and gambling, attempting all ways to purchase pleasure. According to Fitzgerald, the “Jazz Age” means sex, then dancing and then music.3.The Dual personality of DaisyYouth and beauty is the symbol of daisy, she is glorious with charming appearance, beautiful eyes and attractive voice. Her voice is often intoxicated and Daisy became lady in Gatsby's heart even becomes his passionate holy goddess. In the eyes of most people, Daisy is also a passionate and vibrant woman with a magic charm. For example when having dine with Nick, Daisy consider Nick as a rose, although Nick always nonsense, but Daisy is always full of enthusiasm when Nick speaks. Superficially, Daisy is gentle, romantic, passionate, but under the appearance she is bored and empty cold. She is indifferent even to her child, daughter like her a doll, wants to play at any time to fetch it. Even when the car hits Myrtle, Daisy does not stop her car but accelerate forward, not a bit of regret afterwards. This just shows consistent boredom and be cynical about life reflects Daisy an egoist.In Daisy's artificial world, there was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras that set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestive of life in new tunes. All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the Beale Street Blues while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust. At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor (Fitzgerald, 1950: 143).Through this twilight universe, Daisy was a representation of the old aristocracy, which possessed grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance. However, it seemed to lack in heart. Daisy was so used to money's ability to ease her mind that she never worried about hurting others. Just because of her cold-heartedness, fickleness and selfishness, Daisy led a dull life day and night. Obviously, by marrying the wealthy husband Tom, Daisy could lead an easy life free from time-consuming duties, responsibilities, or activities. She had nothing else to do all the day excepted just sitting there motionlessly to keep her graceful position as hostess and wasted the time of her own will.4.Daisy is the symbolization of the American DreamFrom what is written above, we can come to the conclusion that Daisy is the emblem of the status and wealth and also the specific embodiment of his American Dream. In the novel, Daisy is a woman who was born in a rich family, living a luxurious life of the upper class while Gatsby is a son of a farmer without any fortune or background. Except for the first "nice" girl he had ever known, Gatsby had come in contact with such people in various unrevealed capacities, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between. Though the author doesn't express “indiscernible barbed wire” explicitly, we can conclude from the novel that it is the gap between the rich and the poor, the upper class and the common, not only the gap of fortune but also sense of nobility. Drawing lessons from the past and to break this "indiscernible barbed wire," Gatsby plays some tricks. Though he finally gets his dreaming Daisy he loses his valuable treasure.Daisy’s characters, to some extends, identify the upper class’s features such as pure appearance and hollow hearts attractive outside and vanity inside. In The Great Gatsby，the most impressive was not Daisy's face, but her voice. Although Nick who heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her, this irrelevant criticism made it no less charming. Her voice was mentioned more than a dozen times in the novel.When Daisy began to ask Nick questions in her low, thrilling voice, Nick felt it was the kind of voice that made the ear follow up and down, as if each speech was an arrangement of notes that would never be played again:"Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered `Listen', promised that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour" (Fitzgerald, 1950: 14-15).When Daisy spoke, Nick felt "her voice glowing and singing, compelled me forward breathlessly." "As if Tom's absence quickened something within her, Daisy learned forward again, her voice glowing and singing." (Fitzgerald, 1950: 19) This "singing voice" alluded to nothing but for seduction and fatal to the sailors on the sea. She lured Gatsby just like the “American dream” to the young people who have dreams.5.ConclusionThe Great Gatsby, a masterpiece by F. Scott Fitzgerald, attracted so much attention that various critical studies have been made upon it from different angles. Most critics pay much attention to the exploration of the tragic life of male characters and the destruction of the American Dream. Only a few essays have analyzed on the women in the text. Women characters in this novel are always neglected or mentioned in passing. In this thesis, attention is principally focused on the perspective of women.This essay compares the dual personality of Daisy and the disillusionment of the American dream to unscramble and understand the root of Gatsby's tragedy is the misinterpretation of dream.By rereading of the text, we find The Great Gatsby is undoubtedly a great novel that can arouse a resonant feeling for it is not simply an unfulfilled romance of a man named Gatsby, but a story of wonder, power and devotion, dream and history.6.Literature reviewi.Anderson, Richard. "Gatsby's Long Shadow: Influence and Endurance." New Essays on TheGreat Gatsby.(ed.) Matthew J. Broccoli. London: Cambridge University Press, 1986.ii.Berman, Ronald. The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald's World of Ideas, Tuscaloosa Andondon: The University of Alabama Press, 1984.iii.Bloom, ed. with intro. F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. New York: Chelsea House 1991. prehensive Research and Study Guide. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000.。
The Great Gatsby 了不起的盖茨比英文
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美国文学之了不起的盖茨比中英文知识讲解
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life and Career Literary Characteristics The Great Gatsby
Life and Literary Career
Jazz Age and the Roaring
Twenties
The Jazz Age describes the period after the end of World War I, through the Roaring Twenties, ending with the onset of the Great Depression.
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
剧本：《美女和被诅咒的人》、《伟大的盖茨比》、 《生死同心》、《女人》、《乱世佳人》、《居里 夫人》、 《夜色温柔》 《我最后一次看到巴黎》、 《绮梦初艳》等
长篇小说：《最后一个大亨》、《明智的事》、 《了不起的盖茨比》、《夜色温柔》、《人间天堂》 等
The Great Gatsby and The American Dream《了不起的盖茨比》和美国梦
The Great Gatsby and The American Dream《了不起的盖茨比》和美国梦AcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis. Firstly, a special acknowledgement should be shown to LecturerFang Qiang, who from whose lectures I benefited greatly. His has taught me for a whole year in the study of the cause of The Society and Culture of Major English-Speaking Countries An Introduction. Through the studying of this cause, I got a basic comprehend about the culture backgrounds of the west countries, and, definitely, it made a great contribution to the further study of the American literature. Secondly, I would like to thank Lecturer Song Yun, who taught me the cause of Selected Reading of British &American Literature. From this cause I got a relative deeper understanding of the American poetries and novels, what’s more, it directly does me good in the writing of this thesis. Last but not least, I am particularly indebted to my Supervisor Wu Xinjia. From the beginning to the end of writing this thesis, she has shown great patience in checking and approving my thesis, giving me professional suggestions. Last of all, I want to re-express my feeling of gratitude to all the person who have given me a hand in completing this thesis, including my teachers, tutor and classmates. Thanks!The Great Gatsby and the American DreamAbstractFrancis Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most prominent American novelists of the 20th century and his masterpiece The Great Gatsby is listed among the most famous 20th-century American novels considering of its literature merits. The novel mainly tells a tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a man who originally was humble and poor,but finally became extremely wealthy through illegal business means. He has devoted all his life into realizing his dream, to pursue his first love Daisy Buchanan, a woman ,who is full of charm but shallow, selfish and aspire money. Truth is that under the general corruptive social circumstance of Jazzy Age, the only answer to Gatsby’s dream was impossibility and distinction. The novel portrayed a vivid picture of the 1920s’ America, such a roaring time that the economy was unprecedented flourishing on the one hand and the spiritual aspect was a astonishing desolation on the other. The humanities’ corruption and destruction, due to their uncontrolled pursuit of material success and complete ignorance of spiritual improvement, caused a confused state of that age.This thesis tries to combing The Great Gatsby and the American Dream to reprove that Jay Gatsby’s tragedy is ascribed to the harsh reality of American society during the Jazz Age and re-emphasis the inevitability of the disillusionment of American Dream. From the literature world back to the modern greedy society, The Great Gatsby still has a strong practical significance, to give people a warning that money are not equal to happiness , to call back the traditional American moral value.Key words: American Dream; Fitzgerald; Jazz Age《了不起的盖茨比》和美国梦摘要弗朗斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德是二十世纪美国杰出的小说家，他的杰作《了不起的盖茨比》极具文学价值，被列为二十世纪美国最著名的小说之一。
了不起的盖茨比英语精读
了不起的盖茨比英语精读The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a timeless piece that delves into the complexities of the American Dream and the disillusionment that often accompanies it. Set in the roaring twenties, the story unfolds through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner who moves to Long Island and becomes entangled in the lives of his enigmatic neighbors.Jay Gatsby, the protagonist, is a figure of both fascination and tragedy. His opulent lifestyle and extravagant parties are a stark contrast to the underlying emptiness that pervades his existence. Gatsby's relentless pursuit of his lost love, Daisy Buchanan, is a testament to his unwavering hope and the lengths he is willing to go for the sake of his dreams.The novel's setting, the opulent East Egg and the less glamorous West Egg, serves as a metaphor for the socialdivide of the era. Fitzgerald masterfully uses theselocations to explore themes of class, wealth, and the moral decay that often accompanies the pursuit of material success.The characters in The Great Gatsby are as vibrant as the era they inhabit. Daisy, with her delicate beauty and capricious nature, represents the allure and the fickle nature of the upper class. Tom Buchanan, her husband, embodies the arrogance and entitlement of the old moneyaristocracy.Fitzgerald's prose is rich with symbolism and poetic imagery, which adds depth to the narrative. The green light at the end of Daisy's dock, for instance, symbolizes Gatsby's yearning for the past and the unattainable future.The novel concludes with a poignant reflection on the American Dream, suggesting that it is an illusion, perpetually out of reach. Nick's disillusionment with the superficiality of the society he has observed serves as a cautionary tale about the emptiness of material pursuits.In essence, The Great Gatsby is a profound exploration of love, ambition, and the human condition, offering a critical examination of the societal values of the 1920s and their enduring relevance to our own times.。
On American Dream in The Great Gatsby-浅谈《了不起的盖茨比》中的美国梦
On American Dream in The Great Gatsby浅谈《了不起的盖茨比》中的美国梦AbstractFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald was one of the famous American writers in the early 20th century. Many of his works, such as Tender Is the Night and The Side of Paradise were on the disillusionment of the American Dream in the Jazz Age. Among them, The Great Gatsby is Fitxgerald’s masterpiece, which vividly revealed the real world in America in the 1920s. In the part of Introduction, this paper introduces the Jazz Age and Fitzgerald’s life experiences Besides, the explaination of the origin, development and disillusionment of the American Dream and the characters of the Jazz Age are cconcluded in this paper. Also, the analysis of the writing backgroud of The Great Gatsby makes it reasonable to illustrate the American Dream in The Great Gatsby. By Analyzing Gats by’s pursuit of the American Dream, this paper reflects sharp social contradition and people’s mental crisis in the Jazz Age, what’s more, it reveals the nature of the American Dream .Key Words:Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, American Dream, Jazz AgeTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction (1)1.1 Fitzgerald’s life experiences (1)1.2 Writing backroud of The Great Gatsby (2)Chapter 2. The American Dream and the Jazz Age (3)2.1 The origin, development and disillusionment of the American Dream (3)2.2 The Jazz Age (3)2.2.1 In materials (4)2.2.2 In social ideology (4)2.3 In social systems (5)Chapter 3. Analysis on American Dream in The Great Gatsby (6)3.1 General introduction of The Great Gatsby (6)3.2 The formation of Gatsby’s American Dream (7)3.3 The American Dream in The Great Gatsby (8)3.3.1 The Disillusion of Gatsby’s American Dream (8)3.3.2 The fragility of Gatsby’s American Dream (9)Chapter 4. Conclusion (11)Notes (12)References (13)On American Dream in The Great GatsbyChapter 1. Introduction1.1 Fitzgerald’s life experiencesFitzgerald was born in a middle class family in Minnesota, America. His grandfather was a millionaire, and he was influenced by the trandition of the upper class. However, his father had no money to afford such luxury life for him. Though he once played with millionaires’ boys, Fitzgerald knew it clearly that he did not belong to their class, so he desired to become a millionaire in the future. Fitzgerald dropped school from Princeton University and joined the army in the First World War in 1917. In 1918, he was appointed as a Second Lieutenant and accreditted in Alabama, where he knew the daughter of a judge named Zelda Sayre. They fell in love soon and soon got engaged. Retiring from the Army in 1919, Fitzgerald went to New York and became a clerk with meager salary. Unfortunately, Zelda Sayre called off their engagement because she thought he was a poor clerk who could not afford her luxurious life. Fitzgerald went back to his hometown in despair and focused on correcting his novel. In 1920, his This Side of Paradise brought him great fortune and reputation, and his Zelda Sayre too. Hence, Zelda Sayre became the core of his life and the image of his works. They led a luxurious life just like what he described in his novels. They held parties and bought expensive cars and fancy clthes. They even became the idols of Americans in the upper class. Thus, Fitzgerald became one of the members in the upper class both in lifestyle and mentality. In most of his works, he used his life experience as a prototype. Most of his heroines are similar with Zelda Sayre, beautiful but vain, and his heroes pursue success in materials just like himself. 1 Fitzgerald filled most of his novels with the characters of the Jazz Age which were full of wordly enjoyments and selfishness. In reality, his life was like a novel that he created. His wife and him admired luxury and they spent money like water, which made him break the pale. Fitzgerald himself was a suitor of the American Dream. His American Dream crashed when his wife got schizophrenia and his money went away. Pitifully, this great writer died of heart desease at the age of 44. He could have creatived more excellent novel at such a1。
英语毕业论文 了不起的盖茨比美国梦的破灭,the American Dream in The Great Gatsby
On the Ruin of the American Dream in The Great GatsbyStudent Name:Tutor Name:Submitted as a partial fulfillment of the requirementsfor the degree ofBachelor of ArtsCollege of Foreign Languages(April, 2010)AcknowledgementsI would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all the teachers who have taught me and offered me invaluable advice during my four-year study at University.In particular I would like to thank my supervisors, Ms.Yang. She has been available at all times with a helpful advice and a helping hand throughout my whole writing process of the thesis. She has provide me with instructive guidance in modifying the topic, in preparing the material pertinent to the topic and in writing the thesis, and has paid great patience in reading and revising the entire manuscript. Without her generous help, I could not even complete the thesis, let alone present it with the present form.Finally I would also like to thank my parents and all my friends, who have given me innumerous encouragement and critical support in my study these years.AbstractF. Scott. Fitzgerald (1896-1940), as the most famous chronicler and laureate of the Jazz Age, is one of the most representative American novelist of the 1920s. He was not only a leading participant in the typically frivolous, carefree, moneymaking life of the decade but also a detached observer of it.Owing to its extraordinary literary merits, Fitzgerald‟s Great Gatsby is listed among the most notable twentieth-century American novels.This thesis analyzes the roots of the disillusionment of Gatsby‟s dream from the social, historical and authorial perspectives. By exploring the origins and essential nature of Gatsby‟s dream, the naivety and innocence in his personali ty and the cruelty of the Jazz Age society epitomized by the ruthless and immoral Buchanans, the paper draws the conclusion that a combination of these elements defines Gatsby‟s failure and destruction in the end. Theme discussion in this paper is basically done through history and character analysis, which aims for better understanding of the connotation of the novel.Key words: Scott. Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby; American dream; disillusionment内容摘要弗朗西斯·司科特•菲兹杰拉德往往被推崇为“爵士时代”的编年史家和桂冠诗人，是二十世纪美国最重要的作家之一。
Gatsby’s American Dream
盖茨比的美国梦Gatsby’s American DreamAbstract: F·Scot t·Fitzgerald, an American author, is considered a spokesman of the ―Jazz Age ‖, his master piece, The Great Gatsby, vividly describes a picturethat people pursued American Dream in early 20th century. Fitzgeraldskillfully used his imagination to show the charm of symbols, and combinedcharacterization in forceful style to understand the ultimate failure ofAmerican Dream. This paper analyzes characters of Gatsby, Daisy, Nick,Tom and Jordan, and their inimitable symbols, combines many differentconventional symbols relating to Gatsby to understand his inevitable failureof American dream. To combine character analyses with symbolism toexplore a theme will greatly improve the convincingness of the paper andreveal the theme of the paper in a vivid way.Key words: Gatsby; American Dream; characterization; symbolism摘要：美国作家司各特·菲茨杰拉德被称为爵士时代的代言人，其代表作《了不起的盖茨比》栩栩如生的描写了二十世纪二十年代人们对美国梦的追求。
作文：《了不起的盖茨比的美国梦》
作文：《了不起的盖茨比的美国梦》英文版本The Great Gatsby's American DreamOne unforgettable character in American literature is the protagonist Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby. He is a child from a poor family, relying on his talent and diligence, gradually becoming a man with endless wealth and social status. His story carries the hope and absurdity of the American Dream, becoming one of the most shocking images in the hearts of many people.Gatsby's American Dream is not just about pursuing wealth and status, but more importantly, pursuing his true love. His persistence and pursuit of Daisy became his greatest goal and motivation in life. Although he was not with Daisy in the end, it did not hinder his longing and pursuit for a better life. He created his own American Dream with his own efforts and determination.Gatsby's tragedy also stems from his persistence and pursuit of the American Dream. He pursued his ideals at all costs, only to find that everything was just a fantasy and illusion. His life was filled with loneliness and helplessness, and the moment he ultimately died may represent his ultimate failure and despair of the American Dream.However, although Gatsby's story is a tragedy, his courage and unwavering spirit are worth pondering. He dares to pursue his dreams and challenges the arrangements of fate, and this spirit should be learned and respected by each of us. Gatsby's American Dream may not be perfect, but it is precisely this persistent pursuit of ideals and happiness that has made him an unforgettable figure.So, let's learn Gatsby's spirit together, courageously pursue our dreams, not afraid of difficulties, persevere until our dreams come true. Because the American Dream always belongs to those who dare to pursue it, and Gatsby is always a remarkable legend.中文版本《了不起的盖茨比的美国梦》美国文学中一位让人难以忘怀的人物就是《了不起的盖茨比》中的主人公杰伊·盖茨比。
名著名句透视：《了不起的盖茨比》中的美国梦
名著名句透视：《了不起的盖茨比》中的美国梦引言《了不起的盖茨比》是由美国作家F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德创作的一部经典小说，以20世纪20年代的纽约社会为背景，揭示了美国梦的虚假和腐朽。
本文将通过分析该小说中的几个关键名句，探讨其对美国梦的解读。
名句1: "Gatsby believed in the green light..."在小说中，主人公盖茨比常常凝望着对岸那绿色灯塔，并寄托着自己对美好未来的无限期望。
这个名句反映了盖茨比对美国梦追求的坚定信念。
然而，绿灯也象征着无法实现的远方，并暗示了美国梦现实与幻象之间的鸿沟。
名句2: "They were careless people..."这是小说中尼克卡拉威（故事讲述者）对那些浮华、放荡而毫无责任感的人们进行的评价。
这个名句表明了当时社会上对于物质追求和享乐主义的盲目崇拜，让美国梦变得虚无缥缈。
名句3: "Can't repeat the past?"小说中，盖茨比试图通过重温过去与失去的爱人黛西重归于好。
然而，尼克卡拉威以这个疑问反诘了盖茨比的努力。
这个名句意味着美国梦无法回到过去的黄金时代，并探讨了对于过去的执念与现实的冲突。
名句4: "So we beat on, boats against the current..." 小说结束时，尼克卡拉威用这个名句描述了那些奋斗、追求梦想但最终被现实击败的人们。
这个名句强调了美国梦背后所面临的不断挫折和困境，也反映了作者对于那些坚持努力、勇往直前的人们的赞美。
结论《了不起的盖茨比》通过几个关键名句揭示了美国梦背后暗藏的现实困境和虚假幻象。
它警示我们不应将物质追逐与真正意义上的成功混为一谈，而是要审视和思考梦想的真正含义。
只有在面对现实并勇往直前的道路上，我们才能逐步接近美国梦的真正实现。
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《了不起的盖茨比》中的“美国梦” 英文
American Dream in “The Great Gatsby”F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, “The Great Gatsby”, is one of the few novels he wrote in 1925. The novel takes place during the 1920’s following the 1st World War. It is written about a young man named Nick, from the east he moved to the west to learn about the bond business. He ends up moving next to a mysterious man named Gatsby who ends up giving him the lesion of his life.After the circle love with Gatsby and his cousin Daisy, Gatsby was killed by the trick of Tom. Through reading the book, it shows how the experience of selfness and humanity after World War 1 that made the high social optimistic over their lives. It showed how they wanted to forget the past and make themselves back into their own social class. Also, by the experience of Daisy and Jordan treatment from the men in the stories make the reader to see that time didn’t change the relationship between man and man.This novel is a great novel to give an example on how reality is to people even the high social class. Through the discussion of the passage, author wants to show how the path leads to the “American Dream”can turn into a negative or positive outcome in a person’s life.When Mr. Fitzgerald wrote “The Great Gatsby,” he described the actions of the human society. Actually, not only did he describe and critic the high class but also the lower class, all these leads to critiquing the American Dream. The American Dream was a idea give to believe that a man should being happy, wealthy, and loved which has cause any man to go in search for this idea. All that is end up being found is the fact of having the illusion of having more material is to be happy than being happy by valuing what you already have.Gatsby is just a great example of failing to valuing his materials. He had everything he wanted (except Daisy of course) but he never used or appreciated the materials he was surrounded by. He didn’t value anything but Daisy since the reason for everything he did was for her. It only leaves to question to whether he really loved her or wanted her wealth or maybe just even the accomplishment of having her. For all we can know Daisy could just be trophy toward Gatsby and Tom since they never considered her opinion as if she was an object.On the other hand, Nick chasing his American dream of learning the bond business Through the process he fell for Jordan and was the observer of Gatsby’s life, make him to go back home. In the end, everyone just wants the American Dream but everybody’s definition is different which just indicates that I’ll never be accomplished. Once we accomp lish something, we end up being hungry for another goal.A big part of the American dream is to love, which seemed to be Gatsby’s main goal. Daisy gave him motivation to have the dream, whichcaused him to chase after it. Although he reaches as far as he possibly could, he still couldn’t reach his first target, daisy.“However, we conclude by reminding ourselves that we should not think of Gatsby as a condemnation of America, but rather as a warning bell, we can say, as relevant today as when it was publi shed.”Another thing we need to realize is the incorrect American Values. Wealth and class has always been a big component. Daisy is a perfect example of wealth and high class while Gatsby will never leave his lower class, which still continues to be a problem for his American Dream. Although he “invented” himself to be high class, he will never leave the lower class and get Daisy, which makes him fail to get the American Dream. Even with Tom’s dream, his American Dream is never fulfilled because if he was happy he wouldn’t lie and have a mistress. No matter the wealth and class, it still won’t help you get your dream faster. In which this article, perfectly touched the small details that ended up equaling to my theme.In a conclusion, The Great Gatsby was a great book for everyone, not only for American, but deserves everyone to have a self-examination. ---how can we have a correct value of love, wealth and authority? How can we deal of the balance of them? This book shows what chasing the American Dream can make you do. Nick just wanted the American Dream but he found love, hatred and just decided to take the route back home. Gatsby after achieving almost his full American Dream just ended up death. That shows that the American Dream is just a false hope. What attracts us to it is the thrill of accomplishing that goal but it just strives us to make another goal. The Great Gatsby was written to show us our flaws. So we should all learn from it to be ourselves and never to change for any cause or anyone.。
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American Dream in “The Great Gatsby”F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, “The Great Gatsby”, is one of the few novels he wrote in 1925. The novel takes place during the 1920’s following the 1st World War. It is written about a young man named Nick, from the east he moved to the west to learn about the bond business. He ends up moving next to a mysterious man named Gatsby who ends up giving him the lesion of his life.After the circle love with Gatsby and his cousin Daisy, Gatsby was killed by the trick of Tom. Through reading the book, it shows how the experience of selfness and humanity after World War 1 that made the high social optimistic over their lives. It showed how they wanted to forget the past and make themselves back into their own social class. Also, by the experience of Daisy and Jordan treatment from the men in the stories make the reader to see that time didn’t change the relationship between man and man.This novel is a great novel to give an example on how reality is to people even the high social class. Through the discussion of the passage, author wants to show how the path leads to the “American Dream”canturn into a negative or positive outcome in a person’s life.When Mr. Fitzgerald wrote “The Great Gatsby,” he described the actions of the human society. Actually, not only did he describe andcritic the high class but also the lower class, all these leads to critiquing the American Dream. The American Dream was a idea give to believe that a man should being happy, wealthy, and loved which has cause any man to go in search for this idea. All that is end up beingfound is the fact of having the illusion of having more material is to be happy than being happy by valuing what you already have.Gatsby is just a great example of failing to valuing his materials. He had everything he wanted (except Daisy of course) but he never used or appreciated the materials he was surrounded by. He didn’t value anything but Daisy since the reason for everything he did was for her.It only leaves to question to whether he really loved her or wanted her wealth or maybe just even the accomplishment of having her. For all we can know Daisy could just be trophy toward Gatsby and Tom since they never considered her opinion as if she was an object.On the other hand, Nick chasing his American dream of learning the bond business Through the process he fell for Jordan and was the observer of Gatsby’s life, make him to go back home. In the end, everyone just wants the American Dream but everybody’s definition is diffe rent which just indicates that I’ll never be accomplished. Once we accomp lish something, we end up being hungry for another goal.A big part of the American dream is to love, which seemed to be Gatsby’s main goal. Daisy gave him motivation to have the d ream, whichcaused him to chase after it. Although he reaches as far as he possibly could, he still couldn’t reach his first target, daisy.“However, we conclude by reminding ourselves that we should not think of Gatsby as a condemnation of America, but rather as a warning bell, we can say, as relevant today as when it was publi shed.”Another thing we need to realize is the incorrect American Values. Wealth and class has always been a big component. Daisy is a perfect example of wealth and high class while Gatsby will never leave his lower class, which still continues to be a problem for his American Dream. Although he “invented” himself to be high class, he will never leave the lower class and get Daisy, which makes him fail to get the American Dream. Even with Tom’s dream, his American Dream is never fulfilled because if he was happy he wouldn’t lie and have a mistress. No matter the wealth and class, it still won’t help you get your dream faster. In which this article, perfectly touched the small details that ended up equaling to my theme.In a conclusion, The Great Gatsby was a great book for everyone, not only for American, but deserves everyone to have a self-examination. ---how can we have a correct value of love, wealth and authority? How can we deal of the balance of them? This book shows what chasing the American Dream can make you do. Nick just wanted the American Dream but he found love, hatred and just decided to take the route back home. Gatsby after achieving almost his full American Dream just ended up death. That shows that the American Dream is just a false hope. What attracts us to it is the thrill of accomplishing that goal but it just strives us to make another goal. The Great Gatsby was written to show us our flaws. So we should all learn from it to be ourselves and never to change for any cause or anyone.。