《伟大的盖茨比》赏析

Gatsby was killed.
Tom and Daisy leave to shirk the responsibility for the occurred accident.
Setting and Structure
Setting
The story took place during the Roaring Age, and there are four major setting in this novel: 1.West Egg Gatsby’s mansion and Nick’s house 2.East Egg Daisy’s home 3.The Valley of Ashes Wilson’s garage, Michaeles’ restaurant, and the advertising billboard with the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg 4.New York City offices, the apartment Tom keeps for Myrtle, and the Plaza Hotel ( With each of these major setting were two or more subsettings.)
Background introduction
• The Roaring Age describes the period after the end of World War I(1918), through the Roaring Twenties, ending with the onset of the Great Depression(1929). • The spirit of Roaring Twenties was marked by a general feeling of discontinuity associated with modernity, a break with traditions.
• The Great Gatsby is a specific of American society during the Roaring Twenties, telling the quintessential American story of a man rising from rags to riches. The narrator of the story is Nick Garraway ,a young, moral, and conservative mid-westerner from a prominent family.
• East Egg, where the Buchanans and other “old money” people lived, was the “fashionable” side of Long Island, the home of the Ivy League set who had possessed the wealth for a long time and were comfortable and secure with their money.
• However , Fitzgerald and his wife were not always happy in their marriage,by 1930,Zelda had her first breakdown and in 1932 another,form which she never fully recovered.By 1937, he metand fell in love with 28 year old Sheliah Graham,a famous gossip columnist.In the rest life, he lived quietly wlth her except for occasionally drunken spells and visits to Zelda and his daughter.
• West Egg, where Gatsby’s and Nick live, was the “less fashionable” side of Long Island. Their houses are vulgar and would be totally out of place in the more refined world of East Egg. This explained the reason why in the end Gatsby was ruined by the East Egg and Nick decided to go back home.
Show his gigantic mansio
They meet and fall in love
Tom found Daisy’s unfaith to him.
Wilson told Tom that they would moved to the west.
Myrtle was killed
• And also a leading figure in the socially import Triangle Club, a dramatic society and made lifelong friendships with Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. However,he had troubles in study at college and never managed to graduate,so he joined in the army in November 1917.
• The Valley of Ashes in contrast to both East Egg and West Egg was the desolate wasteland where the poor like Wilsons lived. As a matter of fact, those poor people were the victims of the rich. For instance, the Wilsons were the very victims of the Buchanans. The valley was literally characterized by dust, for the city’s ashes were dumped there, and the people were symbolically dumped on by the rich world. The valley, with the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg, also represented the spiritual emptiness and dryness of the world.
A Brief Introduction to the author
F.Scott Fitzgerald
• 1 Family and education • 2 Marriage and love • 3 Works
1 Family and Education • F.Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24,1896 in St.Paul,Minnesota,his father was unsuccessful and aristocratic,mother was energetic and provincial;in 1911,he was sent to a Newjersey Boarding School for he did poorly in study ;Although he was an average sudent, he tried to enroll at Pricenetorn in 1913 .He became an outstanding literary figure in university,
CHAPTER 7 THE GREAT GATSY
CONTENT
• • • • • • • 1 A Brief introdution to the author 2 A Brief smmary of the story 3 Setting and Structure 4 Majors themes 5 Symbols 6Characters Analysis 7 A Brief analysis of a Chosen Chapter
• Everything seemed to be feasible through modern technology. New technologies, especially automobiles, moving pictures and radio proliferated 'modernity' to a large part of the population. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality in both daily life and architecture. At the same time, jazz and dancing rose in popularity, in opposition to the mood of the specter of World War I. As such, the period is also often referred to as the Jazz Age.
Nick was introduced to Jordan Baker
Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson
Tom have a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment where they keep for their affair.
2 Marriage and love
• In July 1918,while he was in Camp Sheridan in Alabama,he met Zelda Sayre, a daughter of Alabama Supreme Court judge ,both of them fell in love.To marry Zelda, he tried to make a fortune.It was his novel, This Side of Paradise made him won Zelda as his bride.
Gatsby’s party
Gastdy comes over for a visit and invites Nick to lunch to ask for a reunion.
Nick is introduced to Meyer Wolfshein.
Rekindle the romance
3 Works
In 1919
《人间天堂》
《星期六晚邮报》
• 1920
1922
1922
《时髦少女与哲学家》
《 爵士时代的故事》
《美丽的不幸者》
1925
1926
《了不起的盖茨比》
《所有悲伤的年轻 人》
“The Rich Boy”阔 少爷
“ Absolution 赦罪
1934
1939
《夜色温柔》
《最后一个 大亨》
The Great Gatsby
Nick was educated at Yห้องสมุดไป่ตู้le And has social connections in East Egg, the fashionable section of Long Island.
He visit his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tome Buchanan, an erstwhile Classmate of Nick’s at Yale.