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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)F. Scott Fitzgerald was born into middle-class circumstances in the American Midwest (St. Paul, Minnesota), though family soon moved to upstate New York. He was Famous American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He was able to attend Princeton University only through help of a wealthy aunt & a football scholarship. Princeton is where Fitzgerald began his intellectual career through his association with Princeton intellectuals, including Edmund Wilson, America’s mo st impt. literary critic at the time. He quits Princeton after his 3rd year in order to serve in WWI. In 1920, he published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, a novel about life at Princeton & a best seller and gave him the money he needed to impress & marry Zelda. 1921: Flappers and Philosophers(short stories) 1922: Tales of the Jazz Age (short stories) The Beautiful and the Damned (a novel) 1925: The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s most famous novel: a story about the rise & fall of the American Dream of happiness of wealth, beauty & fame. Now he considered an American classic of the early 20th century. 1926: All the Sad Young Men(short stories) 1937: Fitzgerald moves to Hollywood to try to make money as a screenwriter & reform his life, but it was too late. Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at age 44. He leaves an unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon.“Babylon Revisited”--one of Fitzgerald’s “after the party is over” stories--published in 1931, after Zelda’s breakdown & their return to the States.Simultaneously autobiographical & symbolic of the collapse of the American Dream of happiness through material excess & high living. (The Norton footnote aboutBabylon is useful here.)--Babylon: symbolic in Anglo-American culture of sensual excess to the point ofdecadence. The collapse of Babylonian civilization is symbolic of what such excess leads to. In our story, Babylon = Paris, the place where, after the first world war,young Americans like the Fitzgeralds lived to excess (as long as their money lasted) and in the process destroyed themselves. Gertrude Stein labelled Fitzgerald,Hemingway and their contemporaries “the lost generation.”Important Characters--Charlie Wales: the central character. He’s returned to Pa ris after 10 months in Prague, where he has brought his alcoholism under control + repaired his financial situation.He is in Paris to try to regain guardianship of his daughter, his only child. (Scott & Zelda had only one child, a daughter, who was placed in guardianship with Zelda’s sister after Zelda’s breakdown while Scott tried to recover from his alcoholism.)--the city of Paris: No longer “gay Parée.” Most of the wealthy Americans have left or gone bankrupt. No longer a place of fashionable excess & not even decadence, except for the transvestites that Charlie sees in the bar (“a group of strident queens”).--Honoria: Charlie’s daughter. Left in the custody of Charlie’s sister-in-law after her mother’s, Helen’s, death & Charlie’s financial & alcoholic breakdown. Clearly well taken care of by her aunt & uncle, but wants to live with her father. Also a symbol of the sensible, grounded American innocence that Charlie sacrificed to his decadence: “[…] I’ve got lots of things. And we’re not rich any more, are we?”--Marion and Lincoln Peters: Charlie’s sister- and brother-in-law. Marion has legal custody of Honoria, lives by a very strict moral code, and thoroughly disapproves of Charlie & his former decadent ways. The Peters never enjoyed the wealth that Charlie & his wife squandered during their decadence; Marion remains jealous andjudgmental of Charlie. Charlie must convince them that he has changed his ways in order for him to regain custody of Honoria.--Helen: Charlie’s now dead wife. Marion, only part ly unfairly, attributes Helen’s death to Charlie’s abuse of his wife, when she in fact died of a heart attack probably brought on by her own alcoholism and reckless living as well as her husband locking her out on a snowy night after a quarrel.--Lorraine Quarrles: a figure from Charlie’s decadent past, who has returned fromAmerica to Paris to try to recapture the decadent life of alcoholic & sexual excess. A symbol of Charlie’s past decadence.Important Themes--the allure of a good life made possible by money--“[…] it was nice while it lasted [….] We were a sort of royalty, almost infallible, witha sort of magic around us.”--the inevitable decline of people & places who’ve indulged in excess--the closed bars, shops, etc. that would have stayed open during Charlie’s hey day in order to serve the wealthy Americans--Charlie’s need to limit his drinking + his regrets about everything he squandered--the desperation of Lorraine’s flirtation with Charlie--the futility of ever escaping the consequences of past excess--the invasion of Charlie’s decadent past, in the form of Lorraine, into his fragile, sober present--Charlie’s failure to gain custody of Honoria, because of Lorraine’s drunkenappearance at Marion’s door--Charlie’s regrets ab out how he & Helen ruined their marriage。
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Scott Fitzgerald(1896 –1940)Status:1).An American author of novels and short stories, his works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age.2）. One of the greatest American writers of the 20th century。
3）. A member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s。
Life：Born in St.Paul，Minnesota(1896)Princeton unfinished(1913—1917）Army, WWI(1917)Marriage to Zelda Sayre(Mar.20,1920）Zelda’s collapseScript-writing in Hollywood(1937—1940)Death（1940)Novels：This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned，The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night，The Last TycoonCollections of short stories：Flappers and Philosophers, Tales of The Jazz Age, All The Sad Young Men。
The Great Gatsby:1）.Content：the tragedy of G’s pursuit of an ideal life2).Point of view: Nick，both insider and outsider of the story，achieves the effect of objectivism3).Themes：violence，class and WWI。
F. Scott Fitzgerald弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passio n for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begin s, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an i mpoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overse as, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchan an. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wea lth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, i n one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gat sby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. W hen she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chor us throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
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Themes
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s America dream was originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. In the 1920s depicted in the novel, easy money and relaxed social values have corrupted the dream. G is ruined by an unworthy woman, just as the American dream in the 1920s is ruined by the unworthy pursuit of money and pleasure. The Gulf between the East and the West The West represents the newly rich, who are gaudy, ostentatious and vulgar (G’s ornate mansion, pink suit, Rolls-Royce), yet sincere and loyal; The East represents the old aristocracy, who are graceful, subtle and elegant (Buchanans’ tasteful home, the white dresses of Daisy and Jordan), yet careless and selfish. remind readers of Henry James’ “international theme”
F. Scott Fitzgerald 美国文学菲斯杰拉德英文课件ppt
Major works
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• This Side of Paradise《天堂的另一面》: His first novel. It won for him wealth and fame. • The Beautiful and Damned 《漂亮冤家》又名《美丽与毁灭》 • The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比/长岛春梦》: His masterpiece. It made him one of the greatest American novelists. • Tender is the Night《夜色温柔》 . • The Last Tycoon《最后的大亨》: His last novel. It remains unfinished.
• 整个夏天的夜晚都有音乐声从我邻居家传过来。 在他蔚蓝的花园里，男男女女像飞蛾一般在笑语、 香摈和繁垦中间来来往往。下午涨潮的时候，我 看着他的客人从他的木筏的跳台上跳水，或是躺 在他私人海滩的热沙上晒太阳，同时他的两艘小 汽艇破浪前进，拖着滑水板驶过翻腾的浪花。每 逢周末，他的罗尔斯一罗伊斯轿车就成了公共汽 车，从早晨九点到深更半夜往来城里接送客人， 同时他的旅行车也像一只轻捷的黄硬壳虫那样去 火车站接所有的班车。每星期一，八个仆人，包 括一个临时园丁，整整苦于一天，用许多拖把、 板刷、榔头、修技剪来收拾前一晚的残局。
F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Life and Career • Major and the Jazz Age • The American Dream • Case Study
Life and career
• Born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896 • Had an expensive education in private schools at Princeton. • Due to illness and neglect of academic study, he left the university in 1917 without graduation.
F scott Fitzgerald
Life and career
• Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota to an upper middle class Irish Catholic family, Fitzgerald spent the first decade of his childhood primarily in Buffalo, New York (1898–1901 and 1903–1908, with a short interlude in Syracuse, New York between January 1901 and September 1903)His parents, both practicing Catholics, sent Fitzgerald to two Catholic schools on the West Side of Buffalo.
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In 1908, his father was fired from Procter & Gamble, and the family returned to Minnesota, where Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy in St. Paul from 1908 to 1911.When he was 13 he saw his first piece of writing appear in print: a detective story published in the school newspaper. In 1911, when Fitzgerald was 15 years old, his parents sent him to the Newman School, a prestigious Catholic prep school in Hackensack, New Jersey. There he met Father Sigourney Fay, who noticed his incipient talent with the written word and encouraged him to pursue his literary ambitions.
F.-Scott-Fitzgerald-美国文学菲斯杰拉德
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• Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also authored 4 collections of short stories, as well as 164 short stories in magazines during his lifetime.
Fitzgerald and the American Dream
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英语101 陈晓芹鲍怡怡F. Scott FitzgeraldMajor Topics⏹Life Experiences⏹Major Works⏹The Great Gatsby⏹The Jazz AgeLife Experiences⏹Born on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key, theauthor of The Star-Spangled Banner.⏹Raised in St. Paul, Minnesota (明尼苏达州). Did poorly in school and was sent toNew Jersey boarding school in 1911.⏹Enrolled at Princeton in 1913 but never graduated⏹Enlisted in the army in 1917⏹Became a second lieutenant, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery,Alabama, where he met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre.⏹Zelda, a wild 17-year-old beauty who was crazy for wealth, fun and leisure, agreed tomarry him as long as he could prove a success.⏹Published his first novel This Side of Paradise(1920), and became a literarysensation(轰动，引起轰动的人或事) ，earning enough money and fame to convince Zelda to marry him.⏹Published his famous works:The great Gatsby (1925)Tender is the night (1934)⏹Having become a celebrity, Fitzgerald fell into a wild, reckless life-style of partiesand decadence, while desperately trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money.⏹Later Zelda was sent to the mental hospital because of psychotic episodes⏹Died of heart attack while working on his last novel The Love of the Last TycoonWorks●This Side of Paradise●《人间天堂》●The Great Gatsby●《了不起的盖茨比》The Jazz AgeThe Jazz Age was a movement that took place during the 1920s or the Roaring Twenties from which jazz music and dance emerged.Roaring Twenties●The Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s.●The phrase was meant to emphasize the period's social, artistic, and culturaldynamism.●The spirit of the Roaring Twenties was marked by a general feeling of discontinuityassociated with modernity, a break with traditions.●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 inpopularity, 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.Aspects⏹Jazz music⏹Literature⏹The flapper1920's Music●Jazz(爵士乐), Ragtime(拉格泰姆) and Broadway musicals（百老汇音乐剧）werefeatures of 1920's music●Jazz is a musical tradition and style of music that originated at the beginning of the20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.●Jazz started to get a reputation as being immoral and many members of the oldergenerations saw it as threatening the old values in culture and promoting the new decadent values of the Roaring 20s.1920's Literature●Literature of the times captured the changes in Society.●Authors of the period struggled to understand the changes occurring in society.While some writers praised the changes others expressed disappointment in thepassing of the old ways.●As the average American in the 1920s became more enamored of wealth andeveryday luxuries, some began satirizing the hypocrisy and greed they observed.●Of these social critics, Sinclair Lewis（辛克莱刘易斯）was the most popular. Hispopular 1920 novel Main Street satirized the dull and ignorant lives of the residents of a Midwestern town.●Reading was a popular recreational activity especially during the winter monthswhen other forms of activity were limited. Prior to radio and television most people gained knowledge of the wider world and current events through printed material.Consequently books, newspapers and magazines were an important part of mostpeoples lives and formed a large part of their wider education. A knowledge of the classics was considered an essential part of a good education.Books That Define the Period●The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot - The ultimate indictment of the modern world's lossof personal, moral, and spiritual values.●The New Negro by Alain Locke - A hopeful look at the negro in America●The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - The American dream that anyone canachieve anything●Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill - A look at 30 years in the life of a modernwoman●The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway - The lost generation of expatriates●Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis - A satirical look at small town life●The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - Details the moral decay of the OldSouth●Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - Black life in a BlackcommunityThe Great GatsbyBackgroundThe Roaring TwentiesThe Jazz ageMajor CharactersNick Carraway - The narrator of the novel; moves from the Midwest to New York to learn the bond business.Jay Gatsby - Lives next to Nick in a mansion; throws huge parties, complete with catered food, open bars, and orchestras; people come from everywhere toattend these parties, but no one seems to know much about the host.Daisy Buchanan - Shallow girl who is the embodiment of Gatsby's dreams; she was going to marry Gatsby but he went off to war.Tom Buchanan- Husband of Daisy; a cruel man who lives life irresponsibly.Jordan Baker - A cynical and conceited woman who cheats in golf; wants Nick to go out with her.Myrtle Wilson - Tom has an affair with this married woman, and then abandons her after he become bored with her.George Wilson - Myrtle’s husband, the lifeless, exhausted owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the valley of ashes.PlotThe novel takes place in the summer of 1922, narrated by Nicholas Carraway “Nick”, a Yale graduat e and World War I veteran from the Midwest who takes a job in New York as a bond salesman. Across the bay, Nick's second cousin Daisy lives with Tom Buchanan, her old-money husband. And his next-door neighbor is thewealthy Gatsby.Gatsby is a poor youth from the Midwest. He falls in love with Daisy, a girl froma wealthy family, but is too poor to marry her. Then he was sent to Europe to fightduring the war. In the meantime, Daisy is married to a rich man named TomBuchanan. Determined to win Daisy back, Gatsby engages himself in Bootlegging and other illegal activities, thus earns enough money to buy a magnificent mansion.There he hosts dazzling parties every weekend in the hope of attracting theBuchanans to come.With the help of Nick, They finally come and Gatsby meets Daisy again. But he finds Daisy is no longer the ideal love of his dream. A sense of loss anddisillusionment come over him.Daisy and Tom do not really love each other. In fact, Tom has a mistress by the name of Myrtle Wilson, who is the wife of the owner of a garage.One day Daisy quarrels with Tom and in a fit of anger she drives Gatsby’s car and kills Myrtle in an accident. In order to protect themselves, Daisy and Tom plot to shift the blame on to Gatsby, sayingGatsby has an affair with Myrtle and he kills her eventually. Myrtle’s husband George Wilson breaks into Gatsby’s house and shots him to death. The Buchanansescape, and the only two persons attending Gatsby’s funeral are Nick and Gatsby’s father, who reads the news in newspaper.Nick effectively ends all of his relationships in New York and decides to give up his job and his house. He resolves to return to the Midwest.Analysis of Major CharactersJay GatsbyThe title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man 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. Though Gatsby has always wanted to be rich, his main motivation in acquiring his fortune was his love for DaisyBuchanan. 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 hewas good enough for her. Daisy promised to wait for him when he left for the war, but married Tom Buchanan in 1919. From that moment on, Gatsby dedicatedhimself to winning Daisy back, and his acquisition of millions of dollars, hispurchase of a gaudy mansion on West Egg, and his lavish weekly parties are allmerely means to that end.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 investsDaisy with an idealistic perfection that she cannot possibly attain in reality andpursues 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 becomesubordinated to the amoral pursuit of wealth.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.On the one hand, Nick is attracted to the fast-paced, fun-driven lifestyle of NewYork. On the other hand, he finds that lifestyle grotesque and damaging. This inner conflict is 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. After witnessing the unraveling of Gatsby’s dream and presiding over the appalling spectacle of Gatsby’s funeral, Nickrealizes that the fast life of revelry on the East Coast is a cover for the terrifyingmoral emptiness that the valley of ashes symbolizes. Having gained the maturity that this insight demonstrates, he returns to Minnesota in search of a quieter lifestructured by more traditional moral values.Daisy BuchananTo 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.Like Zelda Fitzgerald, Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury.She is capable of affection, but not of sustained loyalty or care. She is indifferenteven to her own infant daughter, never discussing her and treating her as anafterthought. In Fitzgerald’s conception of America in the 1920s, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg set.ThemesThe Decline of the American Dream in the 1920sThe 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 resultedultimately in the corruption of the American dream, as the unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed more noble goals.As Fitzgerald saw it, 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 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.Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. In contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance.What the old aristocracy possesses in taste, however, it seems to lack in heart.Ironically, Gatsby’s good qualities (loyalty and love) lead to his death. And theBuchanans’bad qualities (fickleness and selfishness) allow them to removethemselves from the tragedy not only physically but psychologically.。
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So his dream is destined to shatter, which indicates the disillusion of American Dream.
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
The unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed more noble goals. 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. American dream in the 1920s is ruined by the unworthiness of its object—money and pleasure.
1922
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essay satirical play
The Crack-Up The Vegetable
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The Great Gatsby
relationship
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邻居 Gatsby Wilson误认为Gatsby撞死了 Myrtle,最终杀死了Gatsby Wilson
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Gatsby深爱着
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 aam in the Great Gatsby
other works
1920
Flappers and Philosophers Tales of the Jazz Age All the Sad Young Men Taps at Reveille
吹捧者与哲学 家 爵士时代的故 事 所有悲伤的年 轻人的故事 早晨的起床号 崩溃
short story
Inscription on the Gravestone
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
----------Form the last sentence of The Great Gatsby
The Lost Generation（迷惘的一代）
The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American intellectuals, poets, artists and writers who fled to France in the post WWI years to reject the values of American materialism and to seek the bohemian(随性的) lifestyle in Paris.
The wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald
The 1930s brought relentless decline for him with a series of misfortunes, his reputation declined, his wealth fell, health failed. His wife had suffered form serious mental breakdowns which confined her in a sanitarium for the rest of life .
1. Gatsby 's American dream is his dream of love , and the “dream of fortune " is the precondition of " dream of love " . 2. He is persistent in the pursuit of dream. However, his dream is ultimately shattered in the selfish, greedy society.
The Valley of Ashes(灰烬之谷)
The valley of ashes is 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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
弗朗西斯· 斯科特· 菲茨杰拉德
主讲人：苏惠娜
Contents
Part 1 Introduction of F. Scott Fitzgerald Part2 The Appreciation of The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alcoholism,loneliness,and despair combined to destroy Fitzgerald.He died in 1940 of a heart attack.
Literary Achievements
1920: This Side of Paradise 《人间天堂》 1922: The Beautiful and the Damned 《美丽与毁灭》 1925: The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比》 1934: Tender is the Night《夜色温柔》 1941: The Last Tycoon 《最后的大亨》 ( unfinish)
T he main representatives :F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.
Backgroud :his family was considered socially prominent and genteelly poor. Education:studied at Princeton University Experiences:In 1917, he discontinued his studies and joined the army. There, he began to write his novels.
Gatsby's quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream. Nick compares the green light to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have looked to early settlers of the new nation.
我们继续奋力向前 划，逆水行舟，不 停地倒退，回到往 昔.
Daisy
夫妻 Tom 情妇
夫妻
Myrtle
Symbols in The Great Gatsby
The Green Light
Situated 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.
Born:1896-1940
in St. Paul, Minnesota
Occupation : novelist, writer, poet Nationality: American Genres: Modernism Literary movement : Lost Generation
Marriage
Married Zelda Sayre,who exerted a strong influence on his literarcy career and his personal life.She was the prototype of a series of rich,beautiful woman who figure prominment in his works. The young couple frequently went abroad and lived a luxurious life. To keep enough money,Fitzgerald wrote short stories and novels at rapid speed.
Dream of love and fortune
He tries his best to make money and learns everything required to be an upper-class man so that he can get access to his beloved girl. The girl he loves is as vulgar and superficial as others in her circle, she is unable to meet Gatsby’s romantic fantasy.