优选THEGREATGATSBY了不起的盖茨比
TheGreatGatsby英语简介
TheGreatGatsby英语简介The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比》英语简介The character relation of the story is very complicated.Nick is the narrator of the story. He is Gatsby’s neighbor and good friend. And he is Daisy’s cousin,he is Daisy’s husband Tom’s college classmate too. Gatsby was still a very poor major many years ago and at that time he fell in love with a beautiful girl named Daisy, but when he came back with a huge fortune,Daisy had married a rich man,Tom.Gatsby wanted to retrieve the lost love,so Nick helped him to invite Daisy to have afternoon tea together.Gatsby had a firm belief that Daisy kept on loving him,and he believed the reason why Daisy didn’t wait him just because of money.One day,Daisy accidently knocked down and killed the mistress of Tom. Daisy pinned everything on Gatsby, and Gatsby determined to protect Daisy at any cost. The last, Gatsby was killed by Myrtle Wilson’s husband and only Nick attended his funeral.The story happened between 1919 to 1929,and this period was called Roaring Twenties or Jazz age. Economic boom made every Americans retrust The American Dream. At that time,people were confident and cheerful,hoping that they could realize their dreams and live a better life. The Roaring Twenties were years of revolution in social values among some Americans, esspecially people’s value in money.The Roaring Twenties ended with the coming of The Great Depression.It ended with a crash.The American Dream is an important theme of The Great Gatsby.The Great Gatsby is a realistic novel of a bell that tolls for theAmerican Dream,truthfully represents the spirit and features of the"Jazz Age".Through the glittering world of The Great Gatsby runs the themes of moral waste and decay and the lack of personal responsibility which is characteristic of the Jazz Age.The Great Gatsby is a general critique of the American dream.。
了不起的盖茨比（The Great Gatsby）中英对白剧本
1--In my younger and more vulnerable years,在我年纪尚轻涉世未深的时候2--my father gave me some advice.父亲曾这样告诫我3--"Always try to see the best in people,"he would say."多发掘他人身上的闪光点"4--As a consequence,I'm inclined to reserve all judgments.父亲的教诲使我不对他人妄加评判5--But even I have a limit.但我的忍耐也是有限度的6--Back then,all of us drank too much.那时我们每天都醉生梦死7--The more in tune with the times we were,越是与时俱进8--the more we drank.越是长醉不醒9--And none of us contributed anything new.我们也越是陈旧迂腐10--帕金斯疗养院11--When I came back from New York,I was disgusted.我从纽约回来时心中深感厌恶12--I see,Mr.Carraway.我明白卡罗威先生13--Disgusted with everyone and everything.对周围所有的人和事感到厌恶无比14--帕金斯疗养院精神康复诊所15--病人姓名尼克·卡罗威体检结果酗酒过度失眠易怒焦虑16--Only one man was exempt from my disgust.除了一个人之外17--One man?一个人18--Mr.Carraway?卡罗威先生19--Gatsby.盖茨比20--医嘱1929年12月1日初次问诊盖茨比21--Was he a friend of yours?他是你的朋友吗22--He was the single most hopeful person I've ever met.他是我见过的最乐观的人23--And am ever likely to meet again.而且是绝无仅有的24--There was something about him,a sensitivity.他对周围发生的事十分敏感25--He was like,就像26--he was like one of those machines就像一台地震仪27--that register earthquakes10,000miles away.能探测到万里之外的地震28--Where'd you meet him?你是怎么认识他的29--At a,at a party在纽约的30--in New York.派对上认识的31--In the summer of1922,那是1922年夏天32--the tempo of the city approached.城市发展的脚步越来越快33--Hysteria.几近疯狂34--Stocks reached record peaks,股价暴涨至史上最高点35--and Wall Street boomed in a steady golden roar.华尔街在呼啸而来的金融大潮中一派昌盛36--The parties were bigger.派对排场越发奢华37--The shows were broader.秀场演出越发气派38--The buildings were higher.摩天大楼直冲云霄39--The morals were looser,道德底线逐渐沦丧40--and the ban on alcohol had backfired禁酒令反而使私酒泛滥41--making the liquor cheaper.越演越烈42--Wall Street was luring the young and ambitious.华尔街吸引着充满野心的年轻人43--And I was one of them.我就是其中之一44--I rented a house20miles from the city on Long Island.我在距市区20英里的长岛租了一间房子45--I lived at West Egg我住在西卵区46--in a forgotten groundskeeper's cottage,一栋无人修葺的小别墅里47--squeezed among the mansions of the newly rich.被暴发户们的豪宅包围48--To get started,I bought a dozen volumes为了尽快上手我买了一整套49--on credit,banking and investments.有关信贷金融和投资的书籍50--All new to me.我对此一窍不通51--The stock market hit another high.股市再创新高52--The market's moving up,up,up!大盘持续走高53--Well,of course,nothing is100percent.不过凡事都有风险54--I wouldn't go investing every penny.换我就不会孤注一掷55--《尤利西斯》56--At Yale I dreamed of being a writer在耶鲁大学时我曾梦想当一名作家57--but I gave all that up.不过最终彻底放弃58--With the sun shining and the great bursts of leaves on the trees,在炎炎夏日与繁盛的树荫下59--I planned to spend the summer studying.我本打算在学习中度过整个夏天60--第一章市场投资61--And I probably would have were it not,计划未能如愿却也是件好事62--for the riotous amusements that beckoned因为我那素未谋面的邻居盖茨比63--from beyond the walls of that colossal castle在他那巨大城堡内举办的盛大派对64--owned by a gentleman I had not yet met named Gatsby.已经勾走了我的魂65--So,he was your neighbor.那他是你的邻居了66--My neighbor.Yeah.我的邻居是的67--When I think about it,the history of the summer really began仔细想想那个难忘的夏季起始于68--the night I drove over to my cousin Daisy's for dinner.我驱车去表妹黛西家吃晚餐的那一夜69--She lived across the bay in old moneyed,她住在对岸东卵区70--East Egg.一座祖传庭院里71--Her husband was heir to one of America's wealthiest families.她丈夫是美国最富有的家族之一的继承人72--His name was Tom Buchanan.他的名字叫汤姆·布坎南73--When we were at Yale together,he'd been a sporting star.我们就读于耶鲁时他还是个运动健将74--But now his glory days were behind him但那些都是英雄往事了75--and he contented himself with...他现在安于...76--Telephone,Monsieur Buchanan.您的电话布坎南先生77---It's me.-other affairs.-是我-一些风流韵事78--I thought I told you not to call me here.不是告诉过你别打到这儿来吗79--Boaz!波阿斯80--波阿斯是《圣经》中的富豪莎士比亚是人尽皆知的文豪81--Shakespeare!莎士比亚82--Tom!汤姆83--How's the great American novel coming?你那本伟大的美国小说写得怎样了84--I'm selling bonds with Walter Chase's outfit.我最近在沃尔特·切斯的公司卖证券呢85--Let's say after dinner,you and I,we go into town.晚饭后和我一起去镇上86---I can't.-Catch up with the old wolf pack.-不行-带你去见见老弟兄87---Big day on the job tomorrow.-Nonsense!We're going.-明天还上班-废话让你去就去88--First team,all-American.全美第一89--You see?看见没90--Made me who I am today.造就了今天的我91--Forest Hills.森林山[纽约长岛赛场]92--Played the Prince of Wales.What a sissy.大败威尔士亲王队那帮娘娘腔93--Life is something you dominate,Nick.人得靠自己本事活着尼克94--If you're any good.只要你有一技之长95--Henri!亨利96--Where are you?你在哪儿呢97--The doors.这几扇门98--Close them.给我关上99---Sorry.-Thank you.-抱歉-谢谢100--Is that you,my lovely?是你吗亲爱的101--Daisy Buchanan,the golden girl.黛西·布坎南绝代佳人102--A breathless warmth flowed from her.她散发着一股令人窒息的热情103--A promise that there was no one else仿佛在这世上除你之外104--in the world she so wanted to see.她谁也不想见105--Do they miss me in Chicago?芝加哥那些人想我了吗106--Yes.Um,at least a dozen people send their love.是的不少人托我带个好107--How gorgeous.真不错108--They're absolutely in mourning.没有你的日子他们悲痛欲绝109---They're crying.Yes.-No.-他们愁眉苦脸真的-瞎说110---I don't believe you.-Wailing.-才不信你-抱头痛哭111---I don't believe you.-They're screaming.-我才不信你呢-仰天长啸112--"Daisy Buchanan,we can't live without you!""黛西·布坎南没有你我们活不了"113--I'm paralyzed with happiness.我高兴死了114--Jordan Baker.A very famous golfer.乔丹·贝克著名高尔夫球手115--《纽约闲谈》116--She was the most frightening person I'd ever seen.她是我见过的最让人手足无措的人117--Well,I've seen your face on the cover of Sporting Life.我在《运动人生》的封面上见过你的照片118--Nick Carraway.尼克·卡罗威119--But I enjoyed looking at her.但能注视着她仍是一桩美差120--I've been lying on that sofa for as long as I can remember.我在沙发上躺得太久了121--This summer I'll fling you two together.这个夏天我要把你俩撮合到一块去122--I'll push you into linen closets,我会让你们盛装打扮123--and out to sea in boats!然后一起出海游玩124---I'm not listening to a word.-So,Nick,-想得美-对了尼克125--Daisy tells me that you're over in West Egg throwing your lot in黛西说你住在西卵区那边126--with those social-climbing primitive new-money types.和那些攀高结贵的暴发户们住一起127--My little shack's just a cardboard box at80a month.我不过租了间每月80块的陋居罢了128--Your life is adorable.你过得真有意思129--I know somebody in West Egg.我倒是认识一个西卵区的人130--I don't know a single person that side of the bay.我和那边的人还没来往过呢131--You must know Gatsby.但你一定听说过盖茨比132--Gatsby?盖茨比133--What Gatsby?哪个盖茨比134--Madame,the dinner is servi.夫人晚膳已备齐135--Would you like to hear a family secret?想听听咱家的秘密吗136---That's why I came over.-It's about the butler's nose.-洗耳恭听-是有关管家的鼻子的137--Things went from bad to worse.事情变得每况愈下138--I hate that word"Hulking."我不喜欢"大老粗"这个词139--Nicky,I heard a rumor that you were getting married尼克听说你准备娶一个140---to a girl out West.-It's a libel.-西卵区的姑娘-哪有的事141--I'm too poor.我没钱啊142--They have to be old so they die quickly.除非找个老女人准备坐吃遗产143--Can't we talk about something else?咱换个话题行吗144--Anything.Crops.什么都好谈谈作物收成吧145--You're making me feel uncivilized,Daisy.你让我觉得自己像野蛮人黛西146--Civilization's going to pieces.文明已经要四分五裂了147--Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires你读过戈达德写的那本148--by this fellow Goddard?《黑色帝国的崛起》吗149--Everybody ought to read it.人们都该读读这本书150--The idea is that it's up to us,the dominant race to watch out如果白人再掉以轻心的话151--or these other races will have control of things.别的种族就要主宰一切了152--Tom's very profound lately.汤姆近来看问题比较长远153--He reads deep books with long words in them.他读了很多晦涩难懂的书籍154--It's been proved.这是有根据的155--It's scientific.是科学的道理156--We've got to beat them down.我们得消灭这些苗头157--Buchanan residence.布坎南府邸158--Monsieur Wilson,from the garage.是汽车修理厂的威尔逊先生打来的159--Monsieur Buchanan.布坎南先生160--Excuse me,I'll be right back.不好意思我去去就来161--I'm sorry.抱歉162--Well,this Mr.Gatsby you spoke of,你提到的这个盖茨比先生163---he's my neighbor.-Shh!Don't talk.-他就住我隔壁-嘘别说话164--I wanna hear what happens.我想听听他们在说什么165--I don't care what you do...我不管你用什么方法...166--Something happening?出了什么事吗167---Why,I thought everybody knew.-Well,I don't.-我还以为众人皆知呢-我就不知道168---Tom's got some woman in New York.-Got some woman?-汤姆在纽约有了外遇-外遇169--She might have the decency not to telephone at dinnertime.她或许不懂晚饭时不该打过来170--Don't you think?你说呢171--Is that too much to ask?你嫌我管太宽吗172--Daisy,don't create a scene.黛西不要无事生非173--I love seeing you at my table,Nicky.你能上我这儿吃晚餐真好尼克174--You remind me of a rose.An absolute rose,doesn't he?你让我想到玫瑰他难道不像玫瑰吗175---So after dinner,-Well,I'm not even faintly like a rose.-等下吃完饭-我可没玫瑰那么脆弱176--Nick wanted to go into town.Right,Nick?尼克想去镇上逛逛对吧177--To the Yale Club.去耶鲁俱乐部178--Nicky,stay.尼克就待在这儿吧179--I have to work early.明天我还得早起上班呢180--Nonsense.胡说181---There's so much to talk about.-It's just for a drink or two.-还有好多话没说-就去喝几杯而已182--None of us could ignore that fifth guest's第五次急切而刺耳的电话铃声183--shrill metallic urgency.牵动了每个人的神经184---Nicky.-What?-尼克-怎么了185--It's just,well,you see,I think everything's terrible anyhow.就是我觉得一切都糟透了186---Really?-Yes.-是吗-是的187--I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.我周游各地看遍世间百态188--I've had a very bad time,Nicky.我曾经有一段低谷时期尼克189--I'm pretty cynical about everything.导致我现在有点愤世嫉俗190--Your daughter,I suppose she talks and eats and everything?你女儿一切都好吧191--Pammy?你说帕米192--Oh,yes.是的193--Listen,Nick,when she was born,尼克她出生的时候194--Tom was God knows where.天知道汤姆在哪195--with God knows whom.和谁鬼混在一起196--And I asked the nurse我问护士197--if it was a boy or a girl.是男孩还是女孩198--And she said it was a girl她说是女孩199--and I wept:我哭着说200--"I'm glad it's a girl.真庆幸是个女孩201--And I hope she'll be a fool.我希望她做个傻姑娘202--That's the best thing a girl in this world can be.傻姑娘才是最幸福的203--A beautiful little fool."美丽的傻姑娘204--All the bright,precious things fade so fast.华美珍贵的事物总是很快逝去205--And they don't come back.而且一去不复返206--When I arrived home我回到家207--I noticed that a figure发现邻居家的码头上208--had emerged on my neighbor's dock.出现了一个身影209--And something told me it was直觉告诉我他就是210--Mr.Gatsby.盖茨比先生211--He seemed to be reaching toward他似乎伸着手212--something out there in the dark.在黑暗中摸索着什么213--The green light.那束绿光214--I don't wanna talk about this,doctor.我不想再说了医生215--Then write about it.那就写下来216---Write about it?-Yes.-写下来吗-是的217--Why would I do that?为什么要写呢218--You said yourself writing brought you solace.你说过写作能给你带来慰藉219--Yeah,well,it didn't bring anyone else much solace.是的但却不能给别人带去慰藉220--I wasn't any good.我写得不好221--No one need ever read it.又不是给人看的222--You could always burn it.你可以烧掉223--What would I write about?写些什么呢224--Anything.什么都行225--Whatever brings you ease:只要能让你安心的东西都可以写226--a memory一段回忆227--a thought,a place.一点想法一个地方228--Write it down.写下来229--A place.一个地方230--The Valley of Ashes was a grotesque place.灰之谷是个怪异的地方231--New York's dumping ground它是纽约的垃圾场232--halfway between West Egg and the city在西卵区和城区之间233--where the burnt-out coal它的煤炭234--that powered the booming golden city点燃了纽约的纸醉金迷235--was discarded by men who moved dimly但它已支离破碎236--and already crumbling在这漫天尘土中237--through the powdery air.也无人愿意停留238--This fantastic farm这个古怪的农场239--was ever watched by Dr.T.J.Eckleburg一直在T·J·埃克伯格医生的注视下240--A forgotten oculist他虽然被人遗忘241--whose eyes brooded over it all却审视着这里242--like the eyes of God.就像上帝之眼243--Tom had invited me to town,汤姆邀请我进城244--apparently for lunch at the Yale Club,肯定是去参加耶鲁俱乐部的午宴245--but但是246--the day took an unexpected turn.却出现了意想不到的转折247--Come on.跟我来248---Come on!-What do you mean?-快来-什么意思249--Trust me!相信我250---What are we doing?-Where are you going?-我们这是要做什么-你们在干什么251--Jump!跳252---What are you doing?-Jump,come on!-你要做什么-快跳253---Tom!-Come on!-汤姆-跟我来254--Oh,God.天啊255--Tom,wait.Wait a second,would you?汤姆等等等等我行吗256--Dominate,Nick!跟我来尼克257--Dominate!跟我来258--Hello,Wilson.你好威尔逊259--How's business?生意怎么样260--Yeah,I can't complain.还好没什么可抱怨的261--So when are you gonna sell me that car?什么时候把车卖给我262--Oh,I've still got my man working on it.我正让人修着呢263--Yeah,well,he works pretty slow,don't he?他修得也太慢了不是吗264--Maybe I'd better sell it somewhere else.也许该卖给别人265--Oh,no,no,no.别别别266--I wasn't saying that.I was...我不是那个意思我只是...267--If it's business,you should be talking to me.如果是谈生意的话得跟我谈268--Get some chairs why don't you,你还不快去搬椅子来269--so somebody can sit down.让人家坐下270--Uh,sure.好的271--Yeah,let's talk business.我们谈谈生意吧272--Sure.没问题273--I'll get the chairs.我去搬椅子274--Myrtle,桃金娘275---why don't you entertain?-Hurry up.-你来招待一下-快去276---Hi.-Hi.-你好-你好277--Mr.Buchanan.布坎南先生278--Candy?吃糖吗279---No,thank you.-No?-不吃谢谢-不吃吗280--Mrs.Wilson,Nick Carraway.威尔逊夫人这是尼克·卡罗威281--A pleasure.幸会282--Nick's a writer.尼克是位作家283--I'm in bonds actually.实际上我在搞债券284--I want you我要你285--get on the next train.搭下一列火车286--Now?现在吗287--Yes.是的288--Can we get the dog?我们可以养只狗吗289---For the apartment?-Whatever you want.-在公寓里-听你的290--Hey,Mr.Buchanan!布坎南先生291--You want a soda?喝汽水吗292---I'm fine.-No?-不喝了-不喝吗293--Call your sister.She'll like him.叫上你的妹妹她会喜欢他的294--No,no,no.That's all right,thank you.不不不用了谢谢295--Catherine's said to be very good-looking by people who know.认识凯瑟琳的人都说她漂亮296--Oh,really,I can't.真的不用了297--You wanna embarrass Myrtle?不给桃金娘面子吗298--That's rude.那多没礼貌299--I'm Catherine.我是凯瑟琳300--Ain't we having a party?来场狂欢吗301--Um,I'm not sure我觉得302--now's a good time.现在不太合适吧303--I'm just going.Actually,there are peop...我正要走实际上有人在...304--Hello!你好305--Oh,Chester,this must be the cousin.切斯特他就是那个表哥吧306---Oh,you are adorable.-Oh,thank you.-你真可爱-谢谢307--Chester McKee.Pleasure to meet you.我是切斯特·麦基很高兴见到你308---Nick Carraway.-Come on,-尼克·卡罗威-来吧309---don't you like me?-Oh.Heh.A plant.-难道你不喜欢我-撞盆栽上了310--Myrtle!桃金娘311--Myrtle!桃金娘312--Myrtle turtle!桃金娘小龟龟313--I really must go.我真得走了314--Get everybody a drink before they fall asleep.快给大家拿点喝的不然都睡着了315--Tom,I'm just leaving now.汤姆我要走了316--Nick.尼克317--Wait.等等318---I'm going.I've gotta get out of here.-Nonsense!-我要走了我得出去了-胡闹319--Go on in there and talk to Catherine.进去和凯瑟琳说说话320--I'm not comfortable.Daisy's my cousin.我觉得不自在黛西可是我表妹321--Listen,I know you like to watch.I remember that from college.我知道你不爱凑热闹大学时就是这样322--No,no,no,I don't make any judgment.不不我不是指责你323--We have all summer.我们有整个夏天来潇洒324--Now,do you wanna sit on the sideline and watch,你是想袖手旁观呢325--or do you wanna play ball?还是想参与进来326--Play ball.来玩玩嘛327---Ain't we good enough for you?-Come on!-是我们不够好吗-来吧328--Come on!Come on.来吧来吧329--He's gonna sit on the side and watch,huh?他是要袖手旁观330--Or is he gonna play ball?还是来乐呵乐呵331--Take off your hat and stay a while.摘掉帽子留下来332--Oh,hey,Nick.对了尼克333---McKee is in the artistic game.-Photography.-麦基是搞艺术的-摄影334---Nick's artistic.-No.-尼克也是搞艺术的-不是335---No,no,no.-Really?-不是不是-真的吗336---I write a little,but...-Really?-偶尔会写作但...-真的吗337--Do you live on Long Island too?你也住长岛吗338--I live at West Egg.我住在西卵区339--I was there at a party about a month ago.大概一个月前我去那参加过派对340--A man named Gatsbys.Do you know him?有个叫盖茨比的认识吗341--I live right next door to him.我就住在他隔壁342--He's a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's.他是德皇威廉的表亲343---You know,the evil German king?-Really?-就是那个邪恶的德国皇帝-真的吗344--Hey,McKee!麦基345--Take a picture of that.把这照下来346--Don't,I'm not one of those models.别这样我才不是那种模特呢347--You can if you want.如果你想拍也可以348--Neither of them can stand the person they're married to.他们俩都受不了自己家的那口子349--Doesn't she like Wilson either?她也不喜欢威尔逊吗350--He's a greasy little scumbag.他是个谄上媚下的人渣351--No,thanks,I feel just as good on nothing at all.不了谢谢不用喝就已经飘飘然了352--Nerve pills.治疗神经的药353--I get them from a doctor in Queens.我在皇后区的一个医生那搞到的354--Do you want one?你也来一片吗355--Oh,no.My nerves are fine,thanks.不我的神经没问题谢谢356--I had been drunk just twice in my life.我一生中只醉过两次357--And the second time was that afternoon.第二次就是在那天下午358--That night,那晚359--in the hidden flat that Tom kept for Myrtle在汤姆为桃金娘准备的藏身公寓里360--we were buoyed by a sort of chemical madness.我们借着酒劲买醉狂欢361--A willingness of the heart我们内心深处对狂欢的渴望362--that burst thunderously upon us all.雷鸣般迸发出来363--And suddenly,突然间364--I began to like New York.我开始喜欢上了纽约365--This is better than the Yale Club.这比耶鲁俱乐部棒多了366--High over the city我们这排高踞在城市上空的367--our yellow windows灯火通明的窗子368--must have contributed their share of human secrets必定给街上观望的过客369--to the casual watcher in the street.增添了神秘感370--And I was him too,我曾经也像他一样371--looking up and wondering.仰望又寻思着372--I was within我既置身事内373--and without.又超乎其外374--Enchanted and repelled我对人生的变幻莫测375--by the inexhaustible variety of life.既感陶醉又感厌恶376--You have got no right to speak her name.你没权利说她的名字377--Daisy,Daisy,Daisy!黛西黛西黛西378--You got no right to speak her name!你没权利说她的名字379--I'll speak her name whenever...我想说就说...380--Oh,my God,you are crazy!天啊你疯了381--You whore!臭婊子382--They're gonna arrest you!他们会把你抓起来383--I have no clue how I got home不知道我是怎么回的家384--but I do know that但我醒来时385--I awoke with a distinctly uneasy feeling着实有种不安的感觉386--that Gatsby was watching me.觉得盖茨比在盯着我387--Watching you?盯着你388--Yes.是的389--Gatsby was always watching me.盖茨比一直在盯着我390--And how did you know that?你怎么知道的391--I got an invitation.我收到一份邀请392--I was the only one.只有我收到了邀请393--By which I mean no one except me我是说除我之外394--ever received an actual invitation to Gatsby's.恐怕没人真正收到过盖茨比家的邀请395--亲爱的卡罗威先生还望赏光我的小派对您真诚的杰·盖茨比396--You see,the rest of New York其他纽约人397--simply came uninvited.都是不请自来398--The whole city packed into automobiles.全市的人三五成群地搭车而来399--And all weekend,every weekend每个周末400--ended up at Gatsby's.都在盖茨比家度过401--And I mean everyone from every walk of life不管是谁什么工作402--from every corner of New York City,住在哪里的人都会来403--this kaleidoscopic carnival这场缤纷夺目的嘉年华404--spilled through Gatsby's door.挤破了盖茨比家的大门405--Out of the way!闪开406--My invitation.我的邀请函407--Sir,my invitation.先生这是我的邀请函408--This Way!这边409--A caravanserai of billionaire playboy publishers大厅里满是410--and their blond nurses.左拥右抱的出版界富豪411--Heiresses comparing inheritances on Gatsby's beach.沙滩上是炫耀遗产的小姐们412--My boss,Walter Chase,losing money at the roulette tables.我老板沃尔特·切斯在轮盘赌上输了钱413--Gossip columnists alongside,八卦写手伺机而动414--gangsters and governors exchanging telephone numbers.黑帮和政府官员互换号码打成一片415--Film stars.影星416--Broadway directors.百老汇导演417--Morality protectors.道德的捍卫者418--High school defectors.叛逆的青少年419--And Ewing Klipspringer,dubious descendent of Beethoven.这是尤因·克里普斯普林格传言是贝多芬的后代420--Do you know where I might find the host,Mr.Gatsby?请问派对主人盖茨比先生在哪里421--I live just next door.我就住隔壁422--Gatsby?盖茨比吗423--I've never seen Mr.Gatsby,sir.先生我从未见过盖茨比先生424--Why,no one has.根本没人见过他425--Alone,and a little embarrassed.孤身一人又碰了一鼻子灰426--I decided to get roaring drunk.我决定不醉不休427--I thought I might see you here.我就觉得看到的是你428--Hello.你好429--I remembered you live next door.我记得你就住隔壁430--It's like an amusement park.这里就像游乐园431--Shall we?跳支舞吧432--Did you get an invitation?你收到邀请函了吗433--People aren't invited to Gatsby's.来盖茨比家是不用邀请函的434--Well,I was.但是我收到了435--Seems I'm the only one.好像就我收到了436--Who is this Gatsby?盖茨比究竟是何方神圣437--He was a German spy during the war.他曾是战时德国间谍438--Teddy Barton.泰迪·巴顿439--Nick Carraway.尼克·卡罗威440--A German spy?德国间谍吗441--No,no,no.He's the Kaiser's assassin.不对不对他是德皇的杀手442---I heard he killed a man once.-It's true.-听说他杀过人-没错443--Kills for fun,free of charge.就是杀着玩而已也没被抓444--He's certainly richer than God.绝对是有通天的本领445--You don't really believe he killed a man,do you?你不会真相信他杀过人吧446--Let's go find him and you can ask him yourself.找到他以后你自己问问不就知道了447--Ladies and gentlemen,please welcome to the stage...女士们先生们掌声欢迎448--the incredible才华横溢的449--吉尔达·格蕾因西米舞而闻名的美国艺人450--Miss Gilda Gray!吉尔达·格蕾小姐451--The Charleston!带来查尔斯顿舞452--At least I miss至少我还怀念着453--Trips around the world环球之旅454--Don't mean a thing不是你的女人455--If I ain't your girl就一文不值456--I ain't got time for you,baby宝贝我没时间陪你耗457--Either you're mine or you're not不管你属不属于我458--Mr.Gatsby?盖茨比先生459--Sweet baby亲爱的宝贝460--Come on.来吧461--Right here,right now此时此地462--But you are mistaken!但你弄错了463--For I am因为我就是464--the mysterious神秘的465--Mr.Gatsby.盖茨比先生466--You won't find him.你们找不到他的467--This house and everything in it are all part这房子只不过是468--of an elaborate disguise.精心布置的假象469--But Mr.Gatsby doesn't exist.而盖茨比先生并不存在470--Phooey.I've met him.呸我碰到过他471--Really?Which one?是吗是哪一个身份的他呢472--The prince?是王子473--The spy?还是间谍474--The murderer?亦或是杀人犯475--I cannot find anyone我找不出一个476--who knows anything real about Mr.Gatsby.了解一点真实内幕的人477--Well,I don't care.我不在乎478--He gives large parties他办了这么多大型派对479--and I like large parties.很合我心意480--They're so intimate.有很多私人空间481--Small parties,there isn't any privacy.派对小了哪儿都能撞见人482--But if that's true,假如你说的是对的483--what's all this for?这又是为了什么484--That,my dear fellow我亲爱的朋友485--is the question.这是个问题486--Are you ready?准备好了吗487--A little party never killed nobody小小派对无伤大雅488--So we gonna dance until we drop still go on所以就算跳到精疲力尽依然不停息489--A little party never killed nobody小小派对无伤大雅490--Right here,right now is all we got此时此刻就请及时行乐吧491--A little party never killed nobody小小派对无伤大雅492--May I have this dance?能请你跳这一曲吗493--You penniless pantywaist.你个小白脸494--A little party never killed nobody小小派对无伤大雅495--I'm stealing her away.Carraway.我把她借走了卡罗威496--Ladies and gentlemen!女士们先生们497--A jazz history of the world,世界顶尖爵士舞曲过后498--and accompanying为您带来的是499--fireworks!烟花表演500---Come on.Nick.-Look around you.-快点尼克-看看你周围501--Rich girls don't marry poor boys.富家女是不会嫁给穷小子的502--She's mine.她是我的503--Your face is familiar.你看起来好眼熟504--Weren't you in the Third Division during the war?您战时曾在第三师吗505---Oh,yes,the9th Battalion.-I was in the7th.-对在第九营-我在第七营506---Excuse me.-I knew you looked familiar.-借过-我就觉得是见过的507--Having a good time,old sport?玩得开心吗老伙计508--The whole thing's incredible.真是太神奇了509--I live just next door.我就住隔壁呢510--He sent me an actual invitation.Seems I'm the only one.他真给我发邀请函了好像就我收到了511--I still haven't met Mr.Gatsby.我还没见过盖茨比先生本人512--No one's met him.没人见过他513--They say he's third cousin to the Kaiser,听说是德皇的三表弟514--and second cousin to the devil.又是魔鬼的二堂弟515--I'm afraid I haven't been a very good host,old sport.恕我招待不周老伙计516--You see,我517--I'm Gatsby.就是盖茨比518--You're...您就是...519--His smile was one of those rare smiles他的微笑是如此不寻常520--that you may come across four or five times in life.人这一生也难得几回见521--It seemed to understand you,这微笑似乎在告诉你522--and believe in you just as you他理解你信任你523--would like to be understood and believed in.恰如你内心深处的渴望524--Sorry,old sport.I thought you knew.抱歉老伙计我还以为你知道525--Please just...I don't know what to say.Please forgive me.那个...我不知道说什么不好意思526---it's quite all right.-I've had so much to drink.-没事-我喝多了527---Yes?-Mr.Gatsby,sir.-怎么了-盖茨比先生528---Chicago on the wire.-Oh,my.-芝加哥来电-天啊529--I'll be in in just a minute.我马上过去530--I'm taking my new hydroplane out in the morning.明天上午我新买的水上滑艇试水531--Would you like to go with me?你想一起来吗532--What time?什么时候533--The time that suits you.你什么时候方便534--Well,that's very kind of you.您真是太好了535--Lovely to see you again,Miss Baker.很高兴再次见到你贝克小姐536--If there's anything that you want,要是有什么需要537--just ask for it,old sport.尽管开口老伙计538--Excuse me.我先失陪了539--I will rejoin you later.过会儿再来540--I expected him to be...我以为他...541---Old and fat?-Yes.-是个大腹便便的糟老头吗-对542--Young men don't just drift coolly out of nowhere,年轻人是不会突然冒出来543--and buy a palace on Long Island.在长岛买座豪宅的544--He told me once he was an Oxford man.他说他以前在牛津读书545--However,I don't believe it.可我不相信546--Why not?为什么547--I don't know.I just don't believe he went there.不知道就是不信548--I beg your pardon.抱歉549--Miss Baker,Mr.Gatsby would like to speak to you.贝克小姐盖茨比先生有请550--Alone.您一人前去551--Me?叫我吗552--Yes,madam.是的女士553--Nick!尼克554--Nick!尼克555--Nick!尼克556--I've just heard the most shocking thing.我刚才听到了最骇人的消息557--Where have you been?The car's waiting.你去哪里了车等着呢558---Come on,we're leaving.-Simply amazing.-快得走了-简直让人目瞪口呆559--It all makes sense.这就说得通了560--It all makes sense.解释了这一切561--Come on.明白了吧562---What makes sense?-Everything!-什么意思-所有563--Come on,this is crazy!快点别闹了564---We gotta get out of here.-Oh,but here I am tantalizing you,-我们得走了-但我只能说这么多565--when I swore I wouldn't tell.因为我发了誓不能说566--Just tell me.你就告诉我吧567--Oh,Nick,I'm sorry,I swore.尼克对不起我发过誓了568--I swore I wouldn't tell.发了誓不能说的569--Sorry to keep her from you,old sport.抱歉让她走了老伙计。
THEGREATGATSBY了不起的盖茨比全解
Nick
Tom
一个地地道道的纨绔子弟，除了休闲娱乐， 就是纵情声色。 娶了黛西还不够，他还要在外面花天酒地， 与情妇勾搭连环。带领尼克参加的私密舞会， 窥见了属于汤姆这个富有阶层的人士的声色 犬马。
在黛西出车祸撞死他的情妇后，嫁祸给盖茨 比，体现出他的狡诈。
在盖茨比被不明真相的威尔逊开枪射杀后， 布坎南对他一手导演的命案没有丝毫悔意， 而他和黛西去旅行甚至有幸灾乐祸的嫌疑。
背景设置中象征手法的运用
• 《了不起的盖茨比》中最明显的一处象征就是位于豪门巨 室之间的灰烬谷和那幅画着一位医生的大眼睛的广告牌。 灰烬谷是这批富豪精神生活的写照,一切都是灰蒙蒙的,没 有光明。 • 同时作者戏剧性地安排灰烬谷的守卫者威尔森是杀死盖茨 比的凶手。正是通过对细节的精心刻画向我们展示了威尔 森是盖茨比梦想的破灭者并最终也化为灰烬。在灰烬谷上 方是埃克勒伯格大夫的一双眼睛,这双眼睛一直注视着面 前发生的一切,若有所思,却无能为力。 • 美国梦一方面,在美国大陆这片充满机遇的土地上,人人都 可以发财致富,反映了人们对物质财富的追求。另一方面, 美国梦也指人们对美好精神生活的追求,这种美好生活可 以概括为道德完善、充满生机和希望的生活。
人物的象征意义——尼克 Nike
• 尼克以叙述者的身份出现,在小说中起着举足轻重的作用。这种叙述 方式使小说中异乎寻常的主角盖茨比变得真实可信。 • 尼克在小说中是个中心人物,他和主人公盖茨比之间既有相通之处,也 有差异。盖茨比热情、好冲动,充满浪漫的幻想;尼克冷静客观,富于 理智的判断。 • 尼克既在故事内,又在故事外,既体现了小说的声音,也体现了作者的 声音。因此,尼克最能做出对其他人物的道德评判,他能站在理性的高 度去观察发生的一切。 • 尼克不像汤姆,汤姆在任何情况下都能在纽约这块精神沙漠上生存;也 不像盖茨比,盖茨比盲目地相信达到了物质上的满足就能达到生活上 的满足,他深爱着黛西,追求幻想般的梦想,怀揣不现实的理想。 • 尼克代表了传统的道德规范。作者在他身上寄托了一线希望之光,希 望他不会成为又一个盖茨比,希望他寻找到一条出路。我们可以从尼 克那里看到希望,因为整个社会还有道德存在,社会还不是一团糟。所 以,尼克所代表的社会中的道德规范是必不可少的。
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 Minnesota, educated at an Ivy League school (in Nick’s case, Yale), who moves to New York after the war. Also similar to Fitzgerald is Jay Gatsby, a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a military camp in the South.Having become a celebrity, Fitzgerald fell into a wild, reckless life-style of parties and decadence, while desperately trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money. Similarly, Gatsby amasses a great deal of wealth at a relatively young age, and devotes himself to acquiring possessions and throwing parties that he believes will enable him to win Daisy’s love. As the giddiness of the Roaring Twenties dissolved into the bleakness of the Great Depression, however, Zelda suffered a nervous breakdown and Fitzgerald battled alcoholism, which hampered his writing. He published Tender Is the Night in 1934, and sold short stories to The Saturday Evening Post to support his lavish lifestyle. In 1937, he left for Hollywood to write screenplays, and in 1940, while working on his novel The Love of the Last Tycoon, died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four.Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation. Prohibition, the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1919), made millionaires out of bootleggers, and an underground culture of revelry sprang up. Sprawling private parties managed to elude police notice, and “speakeasies”—secret clubs that sold liquor—thrived. The chaos and violence of World War I left America in a state of shock, and the generation that fought the war turned to wild and extravagant living to compensate. The staid conservatism and timeworn values of the previous decade were turned on their ear, as money, opulence, and exuberance became the order of the day.Like Nick in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald found this new lifestyle seductive and exciting, and, like Gatsby, he had always idolized the very rich. Now he found himself in an era in which unrestrained materialism set the tone of society, particularly in the large cities of the East. Even so, like Nick, Fitzgerald saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to the moral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath, and part of him longed for this absent moral center. In many 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 whom 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 andMyrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose.As the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of 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 arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair.After a short time, Tom grows 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 h e feels for the people surrounding Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby’s power to transform his dreams into reality is what makes him “great,” Nick reflects that the era of dreaming—both Gatsby’s dream and the American dream—is over.Character ListNick Carraway - The novel’s narrator, Nick is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business. Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. After moving to West Egg, a fictional area of Long Island that is home to the newly rich, Nick quickly befriends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. As Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he facil itates the rekindling of the romance between her and Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is told entirely through Nick’s eyes; his thoughts and perceptions shape and color the story.Nick Carraway (In-Depth Analysis)Jay Gatsby - The title character and protagonist of the novel, Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night, but no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune. As the novel progresses, Nick learns that Gatsby was born James Gatz on a farm in North Dakota; working for a millionaire made him dedicate his life to the achievement of wealth. When he met Daisy while training to be an officer in Louisville, he fell in love with her. Nick also learns that Gatsby made his fortune through criminal activity, as he was willing to do anything to gain the social position he thought necessary to win Daisy. Nick views Gatsby as a deeply flawed man, dishonest and vulgar, whose extraordinary optimism and power to transform his dreams into reality make him “great” nonetheless.Jay Gatsby (In-Depth Analysis)Daisy Buchanan - Nick’s cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautifulsocialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is sardonic and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband’s constant infidelity. Daisy Buchanan (In-Depth Analysis)Tom Buchanan - Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick’s social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family, Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.Jordan Baker - Daisy’s friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest: she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth.Myrtle Wilson - Tom’s lover, whose lifeless husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle herself possesses a fierce vitality and desperately looks for a way to improve her situation. Unfortunately for her, she chooses Tom, who treats her as a mere object of his desire.George Wilson - Myrtle’s husband, the lifeless, 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 looking 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 lied to her about his own background in order to convince her that he was good enough for her. Daisy promised to wait for him when he left for the war, but married Tom Buchanan in 1919, while Gatsby was studying at Oxford after the war in an attempt to gain an education. From that moment on, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, and his acquisition of millions of dollars, his purchase of a gaudy mansion on West Egg, and his lavish weekly parties are all merely means to that end.Fitzgerald delays the introduction of most of this information until fairly late in the novel. 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 forself-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 Great Houdini” and “The Great Blackstone,” suggesting that the persona of Jay Gatsby is a masterful illusion.Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.(See Important Quotations Explained)As the novel progresses and Fitzgerald deconstructs Gatsby’s self-presentation, Gatsby reveals himself to be an innocent, hopeful young man who stakes everything on his dreams, not realizing that his dreams are unworthy of him. Gatsby invests Daisy with an idealistic perfection that she cannot possibly attain in reality and pursues her with a passionate zeal that blinds him to her limitations. His dream of her disintegrates, revealing the corruption that wealth causes and the unworthiness of the goal, much in the way Fitzgerald sees the American dream crumbling in the 1920s, as America’s powerful optimism, vitality, and individualism become subordinated to the amoral pursuit of wealth.Gatsby is contrasted most consistently with Nick. Critics point out that the former, passionate and active, and the latter, sober and reflective, seem to represent two sides of Fitzgerald’s personality. Additionally, 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 door to 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 the appalling spectacle of Gatsby’s funeral, Nick realizes that the fast life of revelry on the East Coast is a cover for the terrifying moral emptiness that the valley of ashes symbolizes. Having gained the maturity that this insight demonstrates, he returns to Minnesota in search of a quieter life structured by more traditional moral values.Daisy BuchananPartially based on Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. As a young debutante in Louisville, Daisy was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lied about his background to Daisy, claiming to be from a wealthy family in order to convince her that he was worthy of her. Eventually, Gatsby won Daisy’s heart, and they made love before Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, but in 1919 she chose instead to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle and who had the support of her parents.After 1919, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, making her the single goal of all of his dreams and the main motivation behind his acquisition of immense wealth through criminal activity. To Gatsby, Daisy represents the paragon of perfection—she has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota and that first attracted him to her. In reality, however, Daisy fallsfar 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 attend Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no forwarding address.Like Zelda Fitzgerald, Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury. She is capable of affection (she seems genuinely fond of Nick and occasionally seems to love Gatsby sincerely), but not of sustained loyalty or care. She is indifferent even to her own infant daughter, never discussing her and treating her as an afterthought when she is introduced in Chapter VII. In Fitzgerald’s conception of America in the 1920s, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg set.Themes, Motifs & SymbolsThemesThemes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920sOn the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island, New York, The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties and wild jazz music—epitomized in The Great Gatsby by the opulent parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night—resulted ultimately in the corruption of the American dream, as the unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed more noble goals. When World War I ended in 1918, the generation of young Americans who had fought the war became intensely disillusioned, as the brutal carnage that they had just faced made the Victorian social morality of early-twentieth-century America seem like stuffy, empty hypocrisy. The dizzying rise of the stock market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden, sustained increase in the national wealth and a newfound materialism, as people began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels. A person from any social background could, potentially, make a fortune, but the American aristocracy—families with old wealth—scorned the newly rich industrialists and speculators. Additionally, the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919, which banned the sale of alcohol, created a thriving underworld designed to satisfy the massive demand for bootleg liquor among rich and poor alike.Fitzgerald positions the characters of The Great Gatsby as emblems of these social trends. Nick and Gatsby, both of whom fought in World War I, exhibit the newfound cosmopolitanism and cynicism that resulted from the war. The various social climbers and ambitious speculators who attend Gatsby’s parties evidence the greedy scramble for wealth. The clash between “old money” and “new money” manifests itself in the novel’s symbolic geography: East Egg represents the established aristocracy, West Egg the self-made rich. Meyer Wolfshiem and Gatsby’s fortune 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 their respective social statuses, his resorting to crime to make enough money to impress her, and the rampant materialism that characterizes her lifestyle. Additionally, places and objects in The Great Gatsby have meaning only because characters instill them with meaning: the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg best exemplify this idea. In Nick’s mind, the ability to create meaningful symbols constitutes a central component of the American dream, as early Americans invested their new nation with their own ideals and values.Nick compares the green 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 p ossesses. Gatsby’s dream is ruined by the unworthiness of its object, just as the American dream in the 1920s is ruined by the unworthiness of its object—money and pleasure. Like 1920s Americans in general, fruitlessly seeking a bygone era in which their dreams had value, Gatsby longs to re-create a vanished past—his time in Louisville with Daisy—but is incapable of doing so. When his dream crumbles, all that is left for Gatsby to do is die; all Nick can do is moveback to Minnesota, where American values have not decayed.The Hollowness of the Upper ClassOne of the major topics explored in The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth, specifically, how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country’s richest families. In the novel, West Egg and its denizens represent the newly rich, while East Egg and its denizens, especially Daisy and Tom, represent the old aristocracy. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. Gatsby, for example, lives in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce, and does not pick up on subtle social signals, such as the insincerity of the Sloanes’ invitation to lunch. In contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by the Buchanans’ tasteful home and the flowing white dresses of Daisy and Jordan Baker.What the old aristocracy possesses in taste, however, it seems to lack in heart, as the East Eggers prove themselves careless, inconsiderate bullies who are so used to money’s ability to ease their minds that they never worry about hurting others. The Buchanans exemplify this stereotype when, at the end of the novel, they simply move to a new 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 the morning in Chapter VII simply to make sure that Tom does not hurt her. Ironically, Gatsby’s good qualities (loyalty and love) lead to his death, as he takes the blame for killing Myrtle rather than letting Daisy be punished, and the Buchanans’ bad qualities (fickleness and selfishness) allow them to remove themselves from the tragedy not only physically but psychologically.MotifsMotifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.GeographyThroughout the novel, places and settings epitomize the various aspects of the 1920s American society that Fitzgerald depicts. East Egg represents the old aristocracy, West Egg the newly rich, the valley of ashes the moral and social decay of America, and New York City the uninhibited, amoral quest for money and pleasure. Additionally, the East is connected to the moral decay and social cynicism of New York, while the West (including Midwestern and northern areas such as Minnesota) is connected to more traditional social values and ideals. Nick’s analysis in Chapter IX of the story he has related reveals his sensitivity to this dichotomy: though it is set in the East, the story is really one of the West, as it tells how people originally from west of the Appalachians (as all of the main characters are) react to the pace and style of life on the East Coast.WeatherAs in much of Shakespeare’s work, the weather in The Great Gatsby unfailingly matches the emotional and narrative tone of the story. Gatsby and Daisy’s reunion begins 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 Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby associates it with Daisy, and in Chapter I he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead him to his goal. Because Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream, the green light also symbolizes that more generalized ideal. In Chapter IX, Nick compares the green light to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have looked to early settlers of the new nation.The Valley of AshesFirst introduced in Chapter II, the valley of ashes between West Egg and New York City consists of a long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. It represents the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure. The valley of ashes also symbolizes the plight of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality as a result.The Eyes of Doctor T. J. EckleburgThe eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are a pair of fading, bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising。
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I've seen the world, lit it up as my stage now 目睹世界，舞台聚光 Channeling angels in the new age now 粉墨登场，年代转化 Hot summer days, rock and roll 白日盛夏，摇滚震耳欲响 The way you'd play for me at your show 你华装登场，独为我而唱 And all the ways I got to know Your pretty face and electric soul 精致脸庞，魂灵不羁狂妄，你华装登场，我一睹难忘 Will you still love me when I'm no longer yound and beautiful 当年华老去，容颜不再，你是否爱我如初，直到地久天 长？
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• 我年纪还轻，阅历不深的时候，我父亲教 导过我一句话，我至今还念念不忘。“每逢 你想要批评任何人的时候，”他对我说， “你就记住，这个世界上所有的人，并不是 个个都有过你拥有的那些优越的条件。 • 于是我们继续奋力向前，逆水行舟，被不 断向后推，被推入过去。
如果没有与《了不起的盖茨比》相遇，我写出来的小说会 与现在完全不同，或许什么都不写。 ——村上春树
When he comes tell me that you'll let me 让他随行，让他进场 Father tell me if you can 神灵请给我回答 All that grace, all that body all that face makes me wanna party 优雅气场，让我沉沦疯狂 He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds 他是太阳，他的光芒，让我如钻石夺目，璀璨闪亮
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Hemingway saw a democratic world where people were measured by their ability, not by what they owned. Fitzgerald saw the deep differences
between groups of people that money creates. He decided to be among the rich.
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• The setting of The Great Gatsby is New York City and Long Island during the 1920s. • Nick Carraway, the narrator, is a young Princeton man, who works as a bond broker in Manhattan. He becomes involved in the life of his neighbor at Long Island.
The life of the title character,
Jay Gatsby, has been compared to Fitzgerald’s life.
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Master works
Novels: This Side of Paradise 1920 The Beautiful and Damned 1922 The Great Gatsby 1925 Tender Is the Night 1934 The Last Tycoon (最后一个大亨) 1941 Short story collections: Flappers and Philosophers 1920 Tales of the Jazz Age 1922 All the SadYoung Men 1926
《了不起的盖茨比》(The Great Gatsby)500字读后感
《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby）500字读后感《了不起的盖茨比》是弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的文学巨著，一部深刻描绘了20世纪初美国社会的小说。
读完这部小说，我被其对美国梦的反思、对社会虚荣的揭示以及对人性脆弱性的刻画深深打动。
小说的主人公，盖茨比，是一个神秘而富有的人物，他以对黛西·布坎南的痴迷和对美国梦的执着为中心。
然而，盖茨比的一切都是建立在虚构和不可实现的理想之上。
他所代表的繁荣和奢华的象征，背后却隐藏着他对过去黛西的执念和对无法改变的现实的逃避。
盖茨比的命运令人唏嘘，他虽然追逐着虚幻的幸福，最终却陷入了无尽的悲剧。
小说通过对盖茨比及其周围人物的描写，反映了美国社会的虚荣和对物质追求的过度热衷。
那个时代的社交场合、奢侈派对和荒诞的价值观，使得人们迷失在表面光鲜的外表之下。
黛西·布坎南成为了一个代表，她的空虚和对财富的无尽渴望反映了社会对金钱和地位的痴迷。
小说中的这些人物，每个都代表着社会不同层面的虚荣和追求。
菲茨杰拉德通过小说中的一系列符号和隐喻，巧妙地传达了他对美国梦的质疑。
那璀璨的绿灯、盖茨比的豪华派对、汽车事故等元素，都暗示着一个被表象包裹的现实。
这种现实既是个体心灵深处的脆弱和孤独，也是社会价值观的空虚和荒谬。
小说的结尾是悲剧的，盖茨比死于对自己理想的执着和对黛西不切实际的追求。
他的死象征着对美国梦的破灭，对社会虚荣的揭露。
而那个一直默默守望的尼克·卡拉威，成为了对这场梦的见证者和反思者。
他对盖茨比的理解和对社会的独立思考，使他成为小说中一个旁观者，也是一个深思熟虑的叙述者。
《了不起的盖茨比》是一部令人深思的小说，它不仅揭示了美国梦的虚幻，还深刻反映了社会的价值观念和人性的脆弱。
菲茨杰拉德通过对角色的塑造、对象征的运用，以及对人性的细腻描绘，刻画了一个荒诞而深刻的社会画卷。
这部小说永远都不会过时，因为它触及了人性的底线，引人深思，不禁让人对自己的欲望和对社会的期待进行反思。
the great gatsby内容简介
the great gatsby内容简介
《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby）是美国作家弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德于1925年发表的一部小说。
小说讲述了20世纪20年代的美国华丽的浮华生活和东部精英阶层的道德腐败，主要围绕着主人公杰伊·盖茨比和他的痴情追求达芙妮·布坎南展开。
盖茨比是一个自我造就的富翁，为了痴情于达芙妮而建造起奢华的庄园和昂贵的生活方式。
但实际上他是一个心灵孤独的人，因为达芙妮早已嫁给了富商汤姆·布坎南。
在奢华的聚会中，盖茨比认识了汤姆的情人黛西，并与她展开了一段暗恋。
但最终，在汤姆的暴力威胁下，盖茨比的爱情梦想破灭。
《了不起的盖茨比》以优美的语言、细腻的叙事，揭示了人性的卑微与社会的冷酷，以及人们对爱情与名望的狂热追求。
该小说被誉为20世纪美国文学的经典作品，广受读者欢迎和赞誉。
The Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》
The Great Gatsby------F.Scott Fitzgerald Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night.Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with To m andNick 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 wom an with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who livesin 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 andAs the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby hi mself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smil e, 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 arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair.After a short time, Tom grows increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her. 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.When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discove r that Gatsby’s car has struck and killed Myrtle, The next day, Tom tells Myrt le’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 hisdreams into reality is what makes him “great,” Nick reflects that the era of dreaming —both Gatsby’s dream and the American dream—is over.In my personal opinion,death may be a perfect way for Gatsby to relieve.The pure girl Daisy was his entire dream.But he found that Daisy now is a foolish,selfish and meretricious girl.She can`t live with him,she hurt him and shift blame to him.This is not equal to Gatsby.He thought that he live for her.But she became such a girl made all his dreams broken.There was nothing he could live with.And his future life would be boring and make no sense,because he had no dream ,no goal except Daisy.Death was thebest way for him to get rid of all the suffering.The cause of this tragedy is Daisy`s fault.But as a matter of fact,it is not just Daisy`s fault.Mostly,the blame is American society.We can see that Daisy just like wealthy life and she married to Tom.But most of people will do like Daisy,because most of us hate poverty and like to have rich life And after Gatsby`s death,no one would loke to attend to his funeral.It is the society`s tragedy.In that society,people are all selfish.Anothet problrm the author want to describe is that the people have no relief and dream,and they lead a life in vanity.But Gatsby,such an ambitious man,excepting the love of Daisy,has no other dream.He has a luxurious house,lives a rich life,and attends descent party,but he dosen`t know what he really wants except Daisy.It is a pity for him,because he found Daisy can`t return back,he will have no place to go.As far as I am concerned,this story can serve as a reminder for us.To live a meaningful life,we should carefully choose some dreams to persue.And in the process of fulfilling our dreams,we should always be conscious about what we really desire.Anyhow,only by pursuing the proper dreams can we get to the deep spring of happiness.。
《The Great Gatsby》(了不起的盖茨比)精彩片段节选
I spent my Saturday nights in New York because those gleaming，dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant,from his garden，and the cars going up and down his drive. One night I did hear a material car there, and saw its lights stop at his front steps. But I didn' t investigate. Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn't know that the party was over. 每星期六晚上我都是在纽约度过的，因为盖茨比举办的那些灯火辉煌、光彩炫目的宴会使我记忆犹新，所以我仍然可以听到微弱的音乐声和欢笑声不断地从他的园子里飘过来，还有一辆辆汽车在他的车道上开来开去。
一天晚上我确实听见那儿有一辆汽车，也看见车灯照在他门前的台阶上。
我没有去调查。
那大概是最后一位客人，刚从天涯海角归来，还不知道宴会早已收场了。
On the last night, with my trunk packed and my car sold to the grocer, I went over and looked atthat huge incoherent failure of a house once more. On the white steps an obscene word，scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight, and I erased it，drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone. Then I wandered down to the beach and sprawled out on the sand. 在最后那个晚上，我的行李已经收拾好了，车子也卖给了杂货店老板，我走过去又看了一眼那座庞大而零乱的、意味着失败的房子。
the great gatsby(了不起的盖茨比) 英文介绍及赏析
The Great Gatsby F.Scott.FitzgeraldContextFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star-Spangled Banner. Fitzgerald was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Despite being a mediocre student there, he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913. Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead enlisting in the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end.Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama. There he met and fell in love with a wild seventeen-year-old beauty named Zelda Sayre. Zelda finally agreed to marry him, but her overpowering desire for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success. With the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920, Fitzgerald became a literary sensation, earning enough money and fame to convince Zelda to marry him.Many of these events from Fitzgerald’s early life appear in his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, published in 1925. Like Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is a thoughtful young man from Min nesota, educated at an Ivy League school (in Nick’s case, Yale), who moves to New York after the war. Also similar to Fitzgerald is Jay Gatsby, a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a military camp in the South.Having become a celebrity, Fitzgerald fell into a wild, reckless life-style of parties and decadence, while desperately trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money. Similarly, Gatsby amasses a great deal of wealth at a relatively young age, and devotes himself to acquiring possessions and throwing parties that he believes will enable him to win Daisy’s love. As the giddiness of the Roaring Twenties dissolved into the ble akness of the Great Depression, however, Zelda suffered a nervous breakdown and Fitzgerald battled alcoholism, which hampered his writing. He published Tender Is the Night in 1934, and sold short stories to The Saturday Evening Post to support his lavish lifestyle. In 1937, he left for Hollywood to write screenplays, and in 1940, while working on his novel The Love of the Last Tycoon, died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four.Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation. Prohibition, the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1919), made millionaires out of bootleggers, and an underground culture of revelry sprang up. Sprawling private parties managed to elude police notice, and “speakeasies”—secret clubs that sold liquor—thrived. The chaos and violence of World War I left America in a state of shock, and the generation that fought the war turned to wild and extravagant living to compensate. The staid conservatism and timeworn values of the previous decade were turned on their ear, as money, opulence, and exuberance became the order of the day.Like Nick in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald found this new lifestyle seductive and exciting, and, like Gatsby, he had always idolized the very rich. Now he found himself in an era in which unrestrained materialism set the tone of society, particularly in the large cities of the East. Even so, like Nick, Fitzgerald saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to the moral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath, and part of him longed for this absent moral center. In many way s, The Great Gatsby represents Fitzgerald’s attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age. Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald was driven by his love for a woman who symbolized everything he wanted, even as she led him toward everything he despised.Plot OverviewNick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night.Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with wh om Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also l earns a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose.As the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of Ga tsby’s legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smile, and calls everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arr ange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair.After a short time, Tom grows in creasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her. Though Tom is himself involved in an extramarital affair, he is deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful to him. He forces the group to drive into New York City, where he confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom asserts that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announces to his wife that Gatsby is a criminal—his fortune comes from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realizes that her allegiance is to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sends her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt him.When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby’s car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intends to take the blame. The next day, Tom tells Myrtle’s husband, George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car. George, who has leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover, finds Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead. He then fatally shoots himself.Nick stages a small funeral for Gatsby, ends his relationship with Jordan, and moves back to the Midwest to escape the disgust he feels for the people surrounding Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby’s power to transform his dreams into reality is what makes him “great,” Nick reflects that the era o f dreaming—both Gatsby’s dream and the American dream—is over.Character ListNick Carraway - The novel’s narrator, Nick is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business. Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. After moving to West Egg, a fictional area of Long Island that is home to the newly rich, Nick quickly befriends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. As Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he facil itates the rekindling of the romance between her and Gatsby. The GreatGatsby is told entirely through Nick’s eyes; his thoughts and perceptions shape and color the story.Nick Carraway (In-Depth Analysis)Jay Gatsby - The title character and protagonist of the novel, Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night, but no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune. As the novel progresses, Nick learns that Gatsby was born James Gatz on a farm in North Dakota; working for a millionaire made him dedicate his life to the achievement of wealth. When he met Daisy while training to be an officer in Louisville, he fell in love with her. Nick also learns that Gatsby made his fortune through criminal activity, as he was willing to do anything to gain the social position he thought necessary to win Daisy. Nick views Gatsby as a deeply flawed man, dishonest and vulgar, whose extraordinary optimism and power to transform his dreams into reality make him “great” nonetheless.Jay Gatsby (In-Depth Analysis)Daisy Buchanan - Nick’s cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful socialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is sardonic and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband’s constant infidelity.Daisy Buchanan (In-Depth Analysis)Tom Buchanan - Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick’s social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family, Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.Jordan Baker - Daisy’s friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest: she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth.Myrtle Wilson - Tom’s lover, whose lifeless husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle herself possesses a fierce vitality and desperately looks for a way to improve her situation. Unfortunately for her, she chooses Tom, who treats her as a mere object of his desire.George Wilson - Myrtle’s husband, the lifeless, exhausted owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the valley of ashes. George loves and idealizes Myrtle, and is devastated by her affair with Tom. George is consumed with grief when Myrtle is killed. George is comparable to Gatsby in that both are dreamers and both are ruined by their unrequited love for women who love Tom.Owl Eyes - The eccentric, bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby’s mansion. Nick finds Owl Eyes look ing through Gatsby’s library, astonished that the boo ks are real.Klipspringer - The shallow freeloader who seems almost to live at Gatsby’s mansion, taking advantage of his host’s money. As soon as Gatsby dies, Klipspringer disappears—he does not attend the funeral, but he does call Nick about a pair of te nnis shoes that he left at Gatsby’s mansion. Analysis of Major CharactersJay GatsbyThe title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man, around thirty years old, who rose from an impoverished childhood in rural North Dakota to become fabulously wealthy. However, he achieved this lofty goal by participating in organized crime, including distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities. From his early youth, Gatsby despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication—he dropped out of St. Olaf’s College after only two weeks because he could not bear the janitorial job with which he was paying his tuition. Though Gatsby has always wanted to be rich, his main motivation in acquiring his fortune was his love for Daisy Buchanan, whom he met as a young military officer in Louisville before leaving to fight in World War I in 1917. Gatsby immediately fell in love with Daisy’s aura of luxury, grace, and charm, and l ied to her about his own background in order to convince her that he was good enough for her. Daisy promised to wait for him when he left for the war, but married Tom Buchanan in 1919, while Gatsby was studying at Oxford after the war in an attempt to gain an education. From that moment on, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, and his acquisition of millions of dollars, his purchase of a gaudy mansion on West Egg, and his lavish weekly parties are all merely means to that end.Fitzgerald delays the introduction of most of this information until fairly late in the novel. Gats by’s reputation precedes him—Gatsby himself does not appear in a speaking role until Chapter III. Fitzgerald initially presents Gatsby as the aloof, enigmatic host of the unbelievably opulent parties thrown every week at his mansion. He appears surrounded by spectacular luxury, courted by powerful men and beautiful women. He is the subject of a whirlwind of gossip throughout New York and is already a kind of legendary celebrity before he is ever introduced to the reader. Fitzgerald propels the novel forward through the early chapters by shrouding Gatsby’s background and the source of his wealth in mystery (the reader learns about Gatsby’s childhood in Chapter VI and receives definitive proof of his criminal dealings in Chapter VII). As a result, the reader’s first, distant impressions of Gatsby strike quite a different note from that of the lovesick, naive young man who emerges during the later part of the novel. Fitzgerald uses this technique of delayed character revelation to emphasize the theatrical qualit y of Gatsby’s approach to life, which is an important part of his personality. Gatsby has literally created his own character, even changing his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby to represent his reinvention of himself. As his relentless quest for Daisy demonstrates, Gatsby has an extraordinary ability to transform his hopes and dreams into reality; at the beginning of the novel, he appears to the reader just as he desires to appear to the world. This talent for self-invention is what gives Gatsby his qual ity of “greatness”: indeed, the title “The Great Gatsby” is reminiscent of billings for such vaudeville magicians as “The Gre at Houdini” and “The Great Blackstone,” suggesting that the persona of Jay Gatsby is a masterful illusion.Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.(See Important Quotations Explained)As the novel progresses and Fitzgerald deconstructs Gatsby’s self-presentation, Gatsby reveals himself to be an innocent, hopeful young man who stakes everything on his dreams, not realizing that his dreams are unworthy of him. Gatsby invests Daisy with an idealistic perfection that she cannot possibly attain in reality and pursues her with a passionate zeal that blinds him to her limitations. His dream of her disintegrates, revealing the corruption that wealth causes and the unworthiness of the goal, much in the way Fitzgerald sees the American dream crumbling in the 1920s, as America’s powerful optimism, vitality, and individualism become subordinated to the amoral pursuit of wealth.Gatsby is contrasted most consistently with Nick. Critics point out that the former, passionate and active, and the latter, sober and reflective, seem to represent two sides of Fitzgerald’s personality. Additionally, where as Tom is a cold-hearted, aristocratic bully, Gatsby is a loyal and good-hearted man. Though his lifestyle and attitude differ greatly from those of George Wilson, Gatsby and Wilson share the fact that they both lose their love interest to Tom.Nick CarrawayIf Gatsby represents one part of Fitzgerald’s personality, the flashy celebrity who pursued and glorified wealth in order to impress the woman he loved, then Nick represents another part: the quiet, reflective Midwesterner adrift in the lurid East. A young man (he turns thirty during the course of the novel) from Minnesota, Nick travels to New York in 1922 to learn the bond business. He lives in the West Egg district of Long Island, next doorto Gatsby. Nick is also Daisy’s cousin, which enables him to o bserve and assist the resurgent love affair between Daisy and Gatsby. As a result of his relationship to these two characters, Nick is the perfect choice to narrate the novel, which functions as a personal memoir of his experiences with Gatsby in the summer of 1922.Nick is also well suited to narrating The Great Gatsby because of his temperament. As he tells the reader in Chapter I, he is tolerant, open-minded, quiet, and a good listener, and, as a result, others tend to talk to him and tell him their secrets. Gatsby, in particular, comes to trust him and treat him as a confidant. Nick generally assumes a secondary role throughout the novel, preferring to describe and comment on events rather than dominate the action. Often, however, he functions as Fitzger ald’s voice, as in his extended meditation on time and the American dream at the end of Chapter IX. Insofar as Nick plays a role inside the narrative, he evidences a strongly mixed reaction to life on the East Coast, one that creates a powerful internal conflict that he does not resolve until the end of the book. On the one hand, Nick is attracted to the fast-paced, fun-driven lifestyle of New York. On the other hand, he finds that lifestyle grotesque and damaging. This inner conflict is symbolized througho ut the book by Nick’s romantic affair with Jordan Baker. He is attracted to her vivacity and her sophistication just as he is repelled by her dishonesty and her lack of consideration for other people.Nick states that there is a “quality of distortion” to life in New York, and this lifestyle makes him lose his equilibrium, especially early in the novel, as when he gets drunk at Gatsby’s party in Chapter II. After witnessing the unraveling of Gatsby’s dream and presiding over t he appalling spectacle of Gatsb y’s funeral, Nick realizes that the fast life of revelry on the East Coast is a cover for the terrifying moral emptiness that the valley of ashes symbolizes. Having gained the maturity that this insight demonstrates, he returns to Minnesota in search of a quieter life structured by more traditional moral values.Daisy BuchananPartially based on Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. As a young debutante in Louisville, Daisy was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lied about his background to Daisy, claiming to be from a wealthy family in order to convince her that he was worthy of her. Eventuall y, Gatsby won Daisy’s heart, and they made love before Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, bu t in 1919 she chose instead to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle and who had the support of her parents.After 1919, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, making her the single goal of all of his dreams and the main motivation behind his acquisition of immense wealth through criminal activity. To Gatsby, Daisy represents the paragon of perfection—she has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota and that first attracted him to her. In reality, however, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby’s ideals. She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic. Nick characterizes her as a careless person who smashes things up and then retreats behind her money. Daisy proves her real nature when she chooses Tom over Gatsby in Chapter VII, then allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson even though she herself was driving the car. Finally, rather than a ttend Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no forwarding address.Like Zelda Fitzgerald, Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury. She is capable of affection (she seems genuinely fond of Nick and occasionally seems to love Gatsby sincerely), but not of sustained loyalty or care. She is indifferent even to her own infant daughter, never discussing her and treating her as an afterthought when she is introduced in Chapter VII. In Fitzgerald’s conception of America in the 1920s, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg set.Themes, Motifs & SymbolsThemesThemes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920sOn the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island, New York, The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties and wild jazz music—epitomized in The Great Gatsby by the opulent parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night—resulted ultimately in the corruption of the American dream, as the unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed more noble goals. When World War I ended in 1918, the generation of young Americans who had fought the war became intensely disillusioned, as the brutal carnage that they had just faced made the Victorian social morality of early-twentieth-century America seem like stuffy, empty hypocrisy. The dizzying rise of the stock market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden, sustained increase in the national wealth and a newfound materialism, as people began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels. A person from any social background could, potentially, make a fortune, but the American aristocracy—families with old wealth—scorned the newly rich industrialists and speculators. Additionally, the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919, which banned the sale of alcohol, created a thriving underworld designed to satisfy the massive demand for bootleg liquor among rich and poor alike.Fitzgerald positions the characters of The Great Gatsby as emblems of these social trends. Nick and Gatsby, both of whom fought in World War I, exhibit the newfound cosmopolitanism and cynicism that resulted from the war. The various social climbers and ambitious speculators who attend Gatsby’s parties evidence the greedy scramble for wealth. The clash between “old money” and “new money” manifests itself in the novel’s symbol ic geography: East Egg represents the established aristocracy, West Egg the self-made rich. Meyer Wolfshiem and Gatsby’s fortune s ymbolize the rise of organized crime and bootlegging.As Fitzgerald saw it (and as Nick explains in Chapter IX), the American dream was originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. In the 1920s depicted in the novel, however, easy money and relaxed social values have corrupted this dream, especially on the East Coast. The main plotline of the novel reflects this assessment, as Gatsby’s dream of loving Daisy is ruined by the difference in the ir respective social statuses, his resorting to crime to make enough money to impress her, and the rampant materialism that characterizes her lifestyle. Additionally, places and objects in The Great Gatsby have meaning only because characters instill them with meaning: the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg best exemplify this idea. In Nick’s mind, the ability to create meaningful symbols constitutes a central component of the American dream, as early Americans invested their new nation with their own ideals and values.Nick compares the green bulk of America rising from the ocean to the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Just as Americans have given America meaning through their dreams for their own lives, Gatsby instills Daisy with a kind of idealized perfection that she neither deserves nor possesses. Gatsby’s dream is ruined by the unworthiness of its object, just as the American dream in the 1920s is ruined by the unworthi ness of its object—money and pleasure. Like 1920s Americans in general, fruitlessly seeking a bygone era in which their dreams had value, Gatsby longs to re-create a vanished past—his time in Louisville with Daisy—but is incapable of doing so. When his dream crumbles, all that is left for Gatsby to do is die; all Nick can do is move back to Minnesota, where American values have not decayed.The Hollowness of the Upper ClassOne of the major topics explored in The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth, specifically, how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country’s richest families. In the novel, West Egg and its denizens represent the newly rich, while EastEgg and its denizens, especially Daisy and Tom, represent the old aristocracy. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. Gatsby, for example, lives in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce, and does not pick up on subtle social signals, such as the insincerity of the Sloanes’ invitation to lunch. In contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by the Buchanans’ tasteful home and the flowing white dresses of Daisy and Jordan Baker.What the old aristocracy possesses in taste, however, it seems to lack in heart, as the East Eggers prove themselves careless, inconsiderate bullies who are so used to money’s ability to ease their minds that they never worry about hurting others. The Buchanans exemplify th is stereotype when, at the end of the novel, they simply move to a new ho use far away rather than condescend to attend Gatsby’s funeral. Gatsby, on the other hand, whose recent wealth derives from criminal activity, has a sincere and loyal heart, remaining outside Daisy’s window until four in t he morning in Chapter VII simply t o make sure that Tom does not hurt her. Ironically, Gatsby’s good qualities (loyalty and love) lead to his death, as he takes the blame for killing Myrtle rather than letting Daisy be punished, and the Buchanans’ bad qualities (fickleness and selfishness) allow them to remove themselves from the tragedy not only physically but psychologically.MotifsMotifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.GeographyThroughout the novel, places and settings epitomize the various aspects of the 1920s American society that Fitzgerald depicts. East Egg represents the old aristocracy, West Egg the newly rich, the valley of ashes the moral and social decay of America, and New York City the uninhibited, amoral quest for money and pleasure. Additionally, the East is connected to the moral decay and social cynicism of New York, while the West (including Midwestern and northern areas such as Minnesota) is connected to more traditional social values an d ideals. Nick’s analysis in Chapter IX of the story he has related reveals his sensitivity to this dichotomy: though it is set in the East, the story is really one of the West, as it tells how people originally from west of the Appalachians (as all of the main characters are) react to the pace and style of life on the East Coast.WeatherAs in much of Shakespeare’s work, the weather in The Great Gatsby unfailingly matches the emotional and narrative tone of the story. Gatsby and Daisy’s reunion begins amid a pouring rain, proving awkward and melancholy; their love reawakens just as the sun begins to come out. Gatsby’s climactic confrontation with Tom occurs on the hottest day of the summer, under the scorching sun (like the fatal encounter between Mercutio and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet). Wilson kills Gatsby on the first day of autumn, as Gatsby floats in his pool despite a palpable chill in the air—a symbolic attempt to stop time and restore his relationship with Daisy to the way it was five years before, in 1917.SymbolsSymbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.The Green LightSituated at the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock and barely visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn, the green light represents Gatsb y’s hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby associates it with Daisy, and in Chapter I he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead him to his goal. Because Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream, the green light also symbolizes that more generalized ideal. In Chapter IX, Nick compares the green light to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have looked to early settlers of the new nation.The Valley of AshesFirst introduced in Chapter II, the valley of ashes between West Egg and New York City consists of a long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. It represents the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure. The valley of ashes also symbolizes the plight of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality as a result.The Eyes of Doctor T. J. EckleburgThe eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are a pair of fading, bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes. They may represent God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland, though the novel never makes this point explicitly. Instead, throughout the novel, Fitzgerald suggests that symbols only have meaning because characters instill them with meaning. The connection between the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg and God exists only in George Wilson’s grief-stricken mind. This lack of concrete significance contributes to the unsettling nature of the image. Thus, the eyes also come to represent the essential meaninglessness of the world and the arbitrariness of the mental process by which people invest objects with meaning. Nick e xplores these ideas in Chapter VIII, when he imagines Gatsby’s final thoughts as a depressed consideration of the emptiness of symbols and dreams.。
the_great_gatsby(了不起的盖茨比)_英文介绍及赏析
The Great Gatsby F.Scott.Fitzgerald.Character ListDaisy Buchanan - Nick’s cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful socialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is sardonic and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband’s constant infidelity.Daisy Buchanan (In-Depth Analysis)Tom Buchanan - Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick’s social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family, Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.Jordan Baker - Daisy’s friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest: she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth.Myrtle Wilson - Tom’s lover, whose lifeless husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle herself possesses a fierce vitality and desperately looks for a way to improve her situation. Unfortunately for her, she chooses Tom, who treats her as a mere object of his desire.Analysis of Major CharactersDaisy BuchananPartially based on Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. As a young debutante in Louisville, Daisy was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lied about his background to Daisy, claiming to be from a wealthy family in order to convince her that he was worthy of her. Eventually, Gatsby won Daisy’s heart, and they made love before Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, but in 1919 she chose instead to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle and who had the support of her parents.After 1919, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, making her the single goal of all of his dreams and the main motivation behind his acquisition of immense wealth through criminal activity. To Gatsby, Daisy represents the paragon of perfection—she has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota and that first attracted him to her. In reality, however, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby’s ideals. She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic. Nick characterizes her as a careless person who smashes things up and then retreats behind her money. Daisy proves her real nature when she chooses Tom over Gatsby in Chapter VII, then allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson even though she herself was driving the car. Finally, rather than atte nd Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving noforwarding address.Like Zelda Fitzgerald, Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury. She is capable of affection (she seems genuinely fond of Nick and occasionally seems to love Gatsby sincerely), but not of sustained loyalty or care. She is indifferent even to her own infant daughter, never discussing her and treating her as an afterthought when she is introduced in Chapter VII. In Fitzgerald’s conception of America in the 1920s, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg set.。
the great gatsby
the great gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》（英语：The Great Gatsby）是由巴兹·鲁赫曼（Baz Luhrmann）执导，巴兹·鲁赫曼、克雷格·皮尔斯（Craig Pearce）、弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德（F. Scott Fitzgerald）担任编剧，莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥（Leonardo DiCaprio）、凯瑞·穆里根（Carey Mulligan）、托比·马奎尔（Tobey Maguire）等主演的爱情电影。
该片改编自美国作家弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德1925年出版的小说《了不起的盖茨比》，是导演巴兹·鲁赫曼继改编莎士比亚作品《罗密欧与朱丽叶》后的又一名著改编。
影片讲述了1922年的春天，作家尼克(托比·马奎尔饰)随淘金热潮来到纽约，他放弃写作而进入证券市场，成为神秘富豪盖茨比（莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥饰）的邻居，随后被表妹黛西（凯瑞·穆里根饰）的贵族丈夫汤姆（乔尔·埃哲顿饰）带去找情妇寻欢，渐渐迷失。
然而，当尼克被盖茨比邀请参加盛宴时，尼克发现了原来盖茨比深爱着表妹黛西，最终在盖茨比被杀后，尼克看清了上流社会的虚情寡义而决心远离喧嚣、冷漠、虚假的大都市的故事。
2013年，该片获得第15届美国青少年选择奖最佳剧情片提名；2014年，贝弗利·邓恩（Beverley Dunn）和凯瑟琳·马丁（Catherine Martin）凭借该片获得第86届奥斯卡金像奖最佳艺术指导和第18届金卫星奖电影部门最佳美术指导，同时凯瑟琳·马丁还获得第86届奥斯卡金像奖最佳服装设计奖。
— 1 —该片制片于美国、澳大利亚，于2013年5月1日在美国纽约首映，2013年5月10日在美国公映，2013年5月30日在澳大利亚公映，2013年8月30日在中国大陆上映。
the great gatsby译文
the great gatsby译文
《了不起的盖茨比》
作者：F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德
译者：略
第一章
在我的一生中，假如一些东西浮上了水面，我就总是希望遭殃。
并且假如我真遭了殃，我也会细细地品味一番。
——杰伊·盖
茨比
当我29岁的时候，我的乡村富户朋友汤姆•布坦南带我去纽约
一起玩。
他是一个很高大的金发男子，一个在那个年代里扮演了“新金融”角色的人物。
在那个让人吃惊的女人们尚未习惯现金富商们告诉他们的故事之前，这类角色通常是默默无闻的。
我以邱小颖方式感慨，但这对他来说是个挑战。
他的态度装载着昂首挺胸的世界，对他来说除了自己之外都是渺小的。
汤姆的恰荣耀之外，长得很像邦慕斯，但我总是幻想邦慕斯可能是势利的。
渐渐地，我清楚地看到这被唤做“暗湖”的闷墙后面的门户，是他个人不愿花时间去打破的一堵墙。
他手里的笔更像一个握着长枪的斯巴达勇士的样子。
2002年，我要去纽约看汤姆。
所以我在公布我的日程之前，
首先让他解释为什么他没从瓜岛飞回来；终于，在我们抵达那
里的时候，它为此事出了眼睛。
他的苍白的女人——女巫这种讨厌的形象一直是我的嘲笑；她经常给汤姆写信，甚至给我们几百元的支票，如果在纽约偶然度过不想在金罩里结账的周末后，我们就会敲门向酒窖开放；她的透明的爱豆，那是金枪鱼罐头里泡出来的，是用水割的；她16岁时重逾200磅，让所有男子在深情厚意下逛过；她是泡在美国精神里的浓形式。
“眼前的《国家地理》摆在我面前，很快两小时过去了。
这一刻，桌子上的物质更加让我怀念了。
”。
THEGREATGATSBY了不起的盖茨比全解
人物的象征意义——黛西 Daisy
• 黛西不论在尼克的眼中还是在盖茨比的心目中,她是美貌、 权势和财富的象征。 • 她的歌声叮当作响,嗓音铿锵优美,仿佛充满了金钱。她是 时代的产物,同时也是盖茨比梦想的化身。但她徒有一副 美丽躯壳,内心空洞、冷漠和自私。 • 黛西美丽却缺乏内涵正如美国梦，作者刻画出黛西这个人 物来象征美国梦。 • 女主人公的名字是作者精心设计的,Daisy一词翻译成汉语 就是雏菊,也就象征着金钱和空虚同时存在,并预示着梦想 的破灭。
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黛西是美貌、权势和财富的象征。
• 她的歌声叮当作响,嗓音铿锵优 美,仿佛充满了金钱。她是时代 的产物,同时也是盖茨比梦想的 化身。
• 她娇憨可爱，善于做作，卖弄 风情。像仙女一样，白衣飘飘， 声音无比婉转，充满了激情。 • 黛西不自食其力，过着寄生的 生活。她贪恋金钱，贪恋优越 的生活。她徒有一副美丽躯壳, 内心空洞、冷漠和自私。
背景设置中象征手法的运用
• 夏天,太阳火辣辣地照射大地,大地好像要被烧焦了似的,它容易引发 人们冲动、急躁。作者把背景设置在夏天,可以看出作者细腻的感情 和精心的设计。小说第七章以炙热天气开始,并展示所有主要人物的 复杂关系;高潮部分不仅预示了盖茨比幻想的破灭,而且也对其他主要 人物进行了犀利的道德评判。故事发生的季节就像喧噪的20世纪20年 代。 • 但作者在写小说的时候保持了清醒的头脑。正如炎热的天气到了一定 程度就要下雨一样,他相信雨后会见到彩虹,也许夏天过去,人们就会 平静下来,了解并反思自己的观念和行为,他们会有所收获。一个人的 经历是这样,美国也是这样;经历了喧噪的20年代,又迎来了30年代的 黄金时代。
Jay Gatsby Daisy
• 其次，在盖茨比的身上，可以看 到拜金时代在他身上打下的深刻 烙印。
了不起的盖茨比(The Great Gatsby)简介
了不起的盖茨比(The Great Gatsby)简介：In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.弗朗西斯·斯科特·基·菲茨杰拉德（Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald，1896年9月24日－1940年12月21日），美国二十世纪最杰出的作家之一，《了不起的盖茨比》是其代表作。
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
All the bright，precious things
fade so fast.And they don’t come back. 所有的光鲜靓丽都敌不过时间，并
且一去不复返。
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了不起的盖茨比
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本片讲述了在二十世纪二十年代的美国，空气里弥漫着欢歌与纵饮的 气息。一个偶然的机会，穷职员尼克从美国西部来到纽约追寻自己的梦想， 从事起债券生意，无意中他闯入了挥金如土的大富翁盖茨比隐秘的世界， 惊讶地发现，他内心惟一的牵绊竟是河对岸那盏小小的绿灯——灯影婆娑 中，住着心爱的黛西。然而，冰冷的现实容不下缥缈的梦，到头来，盖茨 比心中的女神只不过是凡尘俗世、任性不负责任的物质女郎。而盖茨比走 后，却无人问津，无论生意伙伴还是朋友门客。当一切真相大白，盖茨比 的悲剧人生亦如烟花般，璀璨只是一瞬，幻灭才是永恒。最终尼克纽约没 有带走一片云彩，而选择了回家，而盖茨比却留给了他一个现实的故事和 深刻的思考。
• 我年纪还轻，阅历不深的时候，我父亲教导过我一句话，我至
今还念念不忘。 “每逢你想要批评任何人的时候， ”他对我说，
“你就记住，这个世界上所有的人，并不是个个都有过你拥有 的那些优越条件。” • 如果打算爱一个人，你要想清楚，是否愿意为了他，放弃如上 帝般自由的心灵，从此心甘情愿有了羁绊。
• 可是我一面心里想，我们这排灯火辉煌的窗户高高在这都市之 上，从底下暮色苍茫的街道望此地，抬头 望望，不知所以。我自己似乎又在里边又在外边，对这幕人生 悲喜剧无穷的演变，又是陶醉又是恶心。 • 世界不会在意你的自尊，人们看的只是你的成就。在你没有成 就以前，切勿过分强调自尊，因为你越强调自尊，越对你不利。
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 Minnesota, educated at an Ivy League school (in Nick’s case, Yale), who moves to New York after the war. Also similar to Fitzgerald is Jay Gatsby, a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a military camp in the South.Having become a celebrity, Fitzgerald fell into a wild, reckless life-style of parties and decadence, while desperately trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money. Similarly, Gatsby amasses a great deal of wealth at a relatively young age, and devotes himself to acquiring possessions and throwing parties that he believes will enable him to win Daisy’s love. As the giddiness of the Roaring Twenties dissolved into the bleakness of the Great Depression, however, Zelda suffered a nervous breakdown and Fitzgerald battled alcoholism, which hampered his writing. He published Tender Is the Night in 1934, and sold short stories to The Saturday Evening Post to support his lavish lifestyle. In 1937, he left for Hollywood to write screenplays, and in 1940, while working on his novel The Love of the Last Tycoon, died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four.Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation. Prohibition, the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1919), made millionaires out of bootleggers, and an underground culture of revelry sprang up. Sprawling private parties managed to elude police notice, and “speakeasies”—secret clubs that sold liquor—thrived. The chaos and violence of World War I left America in a state of shock, and the generation that fought the war turned to wild and extravagant living to compensate. The staid conservatism and timeworn values of the previous decade were turned on their ear, as money, opulence, and exuberance became the order of the day.Like Nick in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald found this new lifestyle seductive and exciting, and, like Gatsby, he had always idolized the very rich. Now he found himself in an era in which unrestrained materialism set the tone of society, particularly in the large cities of the East. Even so, like Nick, Fitzgerald saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to the moral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath, and part of him longed for this absent moral center. In many ways, 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 Islandhome to the established upper class. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom 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 Gatsby’s legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smile, and calls everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair. After a short time, Tom grows increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her. Though Tom is himself involved in an extramarital affair, he is deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful to him. He forces the group to drive into New York City, where he confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom asserts that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announces to his wife that Gatsby is a criminal—his fortune comes from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realizes that her allegiance is to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sends her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to provethat Gatsby cannot hurt him.When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby’s car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intends to take the blame. The next day, Tom tells Myrtle’s husband, George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car. George, who has leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover, finds Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead. He then fatally shoots himself. Nick stages a small funeral for Gatsby, ends his relationship with Jordan, and moves back to the Midwest to escape the disgust he feels for the people surrounding Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby’s power to transform his dreams into reality is what makes him “great,” Nick reflects that the era of dreaming—both Gatsby’s dream and the American dream—is over.Character ListNick Carraway - The novel’s narrator, Nick is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business. Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. After moving to West Egg, a fictional area of Long Island that is home to the newly rich, Nick quickly befriends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. As Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he facilitates the rekindling of the romance between her and Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is told entirely through Nick’s eyes; his thoughts and perceptions shape and color the story.Nick Carraway (In-Depth Analysis)Jay Gatsby - The title character and protagonist of the novel, Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night, but no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune. As the novel progresses, Nick learns that Gatsby was born James Gatz on a farmin 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 looking through Gatsby’s library, astonished that the books are real.Klipspringer - The shallow freeloader who seems almost to live at Gatsby’s mansion, taking advantage of his host’s money. As soon as Gatsby dies, Klipspringer disappears—he does not attend the funeral, but he does call Nick about a pair of tennis shoes that he left at Gatsby’s mansion. Analysis of Major CharactersJay GatsbyThe title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man, around thirty years old, who rose from an impoverished childhood in rural North Dakota to become fabulously wealthy. However, he achieved this lofty goal by participating in organized crime, including distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities. From his early youth, Gatsby despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication—he dropped out of St. Olaf’s College after only two weeks because he could not bear the janitorial job with which he was paying his tuition. Though Gatsby has always wanted to be rich, his main motivation in acquiring his fortune was his love for Daisy Buchanan, whom he met as a young military officer in Louisville before leaving to fight in World War I in 1917. Gatsby immediately fell in love with Daisy’s aura of luxury, grace, and charm, and lied to her about his own background in order to convince her that he was good enough for her. Daisy promised to wait for him when he left for the war, but married Tom Buchanan in 1919, while Gatsby was studying at Oxford after the war in an attempt to gain an education. From that moment on, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, and his acquisition of millions of dollars, his purchase of a gaudy mansion on West Egg, and his lavish weekly parties are all merely means to that end.Fitzgerald delays the introduction of most of this information until fairly latein the novel. Gatsby’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 quality 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 quality of “greatness”: indeed, the title “The Great Gatsby” is reminiscent of billings for such vaudeville magicians as “The Great Houdini” and “The Great Blackstone,” suggesting that the persona of Jay Gatsby is a masterful illusion.Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.(See Important Quotations Explained)As the novel progresses and Fitzgerald deconstructs Gatsby’s self-presentation, Gatsby reveals himself to be an innocent, hopeful young man who stakes everything on his dreams, not realizing that his dreams are unworthy of him. Gatsby invests Daisy with an idealistic perfection that she cannot possibly attain in reality and pursues her with a passionate zeal that blinds him to her limitations. His dream of her disintegrates, revealing thecorruption 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, whereas Tom is a cold-hearted, aristocratic bully, Gatsby is a loyal and good-hearted man. Though his lifestyle and attitude differ greatly from those of George Wilson, Gatsby and Wilson share the fact that they both lose their love interest to Tom.Nick CarrawayIf Gatsby represents one part of Fitzgerald’s personality, the flashy celebrity who pursued and glorified wealth in order to impress the woman he loved, then Nick represents another part: the quiet, reflective Midwesterner adrift in the lurid East. A young man (he turns thirty during the course of the novel) from Minnesota, Nick travels to New York in 1922 to learn the bond business. He lives in the West Egg district of Long Island, next door to Gatsby. Nick is also Daisy’s cousin, which enables him to observe and assist the resurgent love affair between Daisy and Gatsby. As a result of his relationship to these two characters, Nick is the perfect choice to narrate the novel, which functions as a personal memoir of his experiences with Gatsby in the summer of 1922.Nick is also well suited to narrating The Great Gatsby because of his temperament. As he tells the reader in Chapter I, he is tolerant, open-minded, quiet, and a good listener, and, as a result, others tend to talk to him and tell him their secrets. Gatsby, in particular, comes to trust him and treat him as a confidant. Nick generally assumes a secondary role throughout the novel, preferring to describe and comment on events rather than dominate the action. Often, however, he functions as Fitzgerald’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 conflictis symbolized throughout 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 the appalling spectacle of Gatsby’s funeral, Nick realizes that the fast life of revelry on the East Coast is a cover for the terrifying moral emptiness that the valley of ashes symbolizes. Having gained the maturity that this insight demonstrates, he returns to Minnesota in search of a quieter life structured by more traditional moral values.Daisy BuchananPartially based on Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. As a young debutante in Louisville, Daisy was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lied about his background to Daisy, claiming to be from a wealthy family in order to convince her that he was worthy of her. Eventually, Gatsby won Daisy’s heart, and they made love before Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, but in 1919 she chose instead to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle and who had the support of her parents.After 1919, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, making her the single goal of all of his dreams and the main motivation behind his acquisition of immense wealth through criminal activity. To Gatsby, Daisy represents the paragon of perfection—she has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota and that first attracted him to her. In reality, however, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby’s ideals. She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic. Nick characterizes her as a careless person who smashes things up and then retreats behind her money. Daisy proves her real nature when she chooses Tom over Gatsby in Chapter VII, then allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson even though she herself was driving the car. Finally, rather than attend Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no forwarding address.Like Zelda Fitzgerald, Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury. She is capable of affection (she seems genuinely fond of Nick and occasionally seems to love Gatsby sincerely), but not of sustained loyalty or care. She is indifferent even to her own infant daughter, never discussing her and treating her as an afterthought when she is introduced in Chapter VII. In Fitzgerald’s conception of America in the 1920s, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg set.Themes, Motifs & SymbolsThemesThemes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920sOn the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island, New York, The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties and wild jazz music—epitomized in The Great Gatsby by the opulent parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night—resulted ultimately in the corruption of the American dream, as the unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed more noble goals. When World War I ended in 1918, the generation of young Americans who had fought the war became intensely disillusioned, as the brutal carnage that they had just faced made the Victorian social morality of early-twentieth-century America seem like stuffy, empty hypocrisy. The dizzying rise of the stock market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden, sustained increase in the national wealth and a newfound materialism, as people began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels. A person from any social background could, potentially, make a fortune, but the American aristocracy—families with old wealth—scorned the newly rich industrialistsand 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 symbolic geography: East Egg represents the established aristocracy, West Egg the self-made rich. Meyer Wolfshiem and Gatsby’s fortune symbolize the rise of organized crime and bootlegging.As Fitzgerald saw it (and as Nick explains in Chapter IX), the American dream was originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. In the 1920s depicted in the novel, however, easy money and relaxed social values have corrupted this dream, especially on the East Coast. The main plotline of the novel reflects this assessment, as Gatsby’s dream of loving Daisy is ruined by the difference in their respective social statuses, his resorting to crime to make enough money to impress her, and the rampant materialism that characterizes her lifestyle. Additionally, places and objects in The Great Gatsby have meaning only because characters instill them with meaning: the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg best exemplify this idea. In Nick’s mind, the ability to create meaningful symbols constitutes a central component of the American dream, as early Americans invested their new nation with their own ideals and values.Nick compares the green 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 unworthiness of its object—money and pleasure. Like 1920s Americans in general, fruitlessly seeking a bygone era in which their dreams had value, Gatsby longs to re-create a vanished past—his time in Louisville with Daisy—but is incapable of doing so. When his dream crumbles, all that is left for Gatsby to do is die; all Nick can do is move backto Minnesota, where American values have not decayed.The Hollowness of the Upper ClassOne of the major topics explored in The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth, specifically, how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country’s richest families. In the novel, West Egg and its denizens represent the newly rich, while East Egg and its denizens, especially Daisy and Tom, represent the old aristocracy. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. Gatsby, for example, lives in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce, and does not pick up on subtle social signals, such as the insincerity of the Sloanes’ invitation to lunch. In contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by the Buchanans’ tasteful home and the flowing white dresses of Daisy and Jordan Baker.What the old aristocracy possesses in taste, however, it seems to lack in heart, as the East Eggers prove themselves careless, inconsiderate bullies who are so used to money’s ability to ease their minds that they never worry about hurting others. The Buchanans exemplify this stereotype when, at the end of the novel, they simply move to a new house far away rather than condescend to attend Gatsby’s funeral. Gatsby, on the other hand, whose recent wealth derives from criminal activity, has a sincere and loyal heart, remaining outside Daisy’s window until four in the morning in Chapter VII simply to make sure that Tom does not hurt her. Ironically, Gatsby’s good qualities (loyalty and love) lead to his death, as he takes the blame for killing Myrtle rather than letting Daisy be punished, and the Buchanans’ bad qualities (fickleness and selfishness) allow them to remove themselves from the tragedy not only physically but psychologically.MotifsMotifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.GeographyThroughout the novel, places and settings epitomize the various aspects of the 1920s American society that Fitzgerald depicts. East Egg represents the old aristocracy, West Egg the newly rich, the valley of ashes the moral and social decay of America, and New York City the uninhibited, amoral quest for money and pleasure. Additionally, the East is connected to the moral。
影评：The Great Gatsby
影评：The Great Gatsby
《了不起的盖茨比》是一部根据弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的同名
小说改编的电影，由杰伊·盖茨比的故事展现出了20世纪20年代的
繁华与荒诞。
这部电影以其精美的场景和华丽的服装设计而闻名，
同时也深刻地揭示了财富、爱情和欲望对人性的影响。
电影中最令人印象深刻的是其视觉效果。
导演巧妙地运用了色彩和
光影，营造出了那个时代的奢华和狂热。
每一帧画面都仿佛是一幅
精美的画作，让观众仿佛置身于20世纪20年代的狂欢派对中。
此外，服装设计也非常出色，每一件服装都展现了当时的时尚和华丽。
除了视觉效果外，影片还深刻地探讨了财富和爱情对人性的影响。
杰伊·盖茨比是一个富有但孤独的人，他为了追求自己的幻想而付出
了一切。
而卡拉韦伊是一个追求真爱但最终被现实打败的女人。
这
两个角色的命运让观众深深地反思了财富和爱情对人生的影响。
总的来说，《了不起的盖茨比》是一部令人震撼的电影，它不仅展现了20世纪20年代的繁华与荒诞，更深刻地探讨了财富、爱情和欲
望对人性的影响。
观众在欣赏这部电影的同时，也会对自己的生活
和价值观产生深刻的反思。