菲茨杰拉德简介英文

Jazz Age
a feature of the1920s played a significant part in wider cultural changes coined with The Lost Generation(迷惘的一代）
Representative Works代表作品
novelette（中篇小说） 《The Great Gatsby》1925
1920s
Conclusion
• reveals the falseness of ideals and moves toward disillusion
• All his stories：morality, industry, and maturity（成熟）
• his stories can be regarded as moral fables. He was interested in people’s dreams and failures. He showed more interest in subject matter than in structure.
• Gatsby：the embodiment of this dream
• a poor farm boy——a rich businessman
• Gatsby is never truly one of the elite；his dream is just a fantasy.
Fitzgerald’s Fiction
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Profile人物简介 Representative Works代表作品 Works Analysis作品分析 Evaluation人物评价
Profile人物简介
1896 – 1940 He was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazபைடு நூலகம் Age.
full-length novel（长篇小说） 《Tender Is the Night》1934
Works Analysis作品分析 the broken American dream
The American Dream
hard work,courage,determination achieve financial and personal success an emphasis on material wealth as a measure of success and happiness
• writing style：simple, vivid, graceful, precise and polished.
Evaluation
• one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century
• the chronicler of the 1920s in America and the spokesman of the Lost Generation
the hollowness of the American worship of riches the unending American dreams of love, splendor
and gratified desires shows what America meant in terms of the reckless
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