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1、,The Great Gatsby,Contents Background Plot Overview Major characters Analysis of the movie Famous aphorism in the movie,Background,Background a: author,The Great Gatsby is a novel writed by the American author Francis Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set on Long Islands Nor
2、th Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1992 and its a critique（批评；评论文章） of the American dream.,Francis Scott Fitzgerald: A spokesman of the “Jazz Age”,Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in St .Paul Minnesota on September 24, 1886, the only son of an unsuccessful upper class（上流） father and
3、 an energetic mother of an Irish background. His family was socially prominent and genteel. His mother had a small fortune from his grandfather in the business.,That brought Fitzgerald some talents to live in a money-oriented（拜金的） society, and eventually gave him his expensive education firstly in a
4、 fashionable Catholic preparatory school in New Jersey and then at Princeton University in 1913.,In 1925, he wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby which dealt symbolically（象征地；符号地） with the frustration（挫折） and despair（绝望；令人绝望的人或事） resulting from the failure of the American dream. It is a story about
5、 an idealist（空想家，理想主义者；唯心主义者） who tries to recapture（夺回；拿回；再体验；政府征收再经历） his lost love but in vain and its destroyed by the influence of the wealthy people around him finally. The Fitzgerald stayed in Europe for two and a half years.,It is said that Fitzgerald and his wife Zeldas ups and downs of lif
6、e is his inspiration of creating the great Gatsby . 据说菲茨杰拉德和妻子泽尔达的人生际遇是他创作了不起的盖茨比的灵感来源,Major Novels (He is a productive author),1920：This Side of Paradise 人间天堂 1922：The Beautiful and the Damned 美丽的和可诅咒的 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,Background
7、 b: Jazz Age(1919-1929),The Jazz Age is the nickname in America of the decade（十年） of the 1920s, beginning from 1919 to the Crash at the Crash at end of 1929. It refers to the “Twenties” of this century. These ten years were, for Americans , a time of carefree （无忧无虑的；不负责的） prosperity , isolated(v. 使孤
8、立；使绝缘) from the worlds problem, bewildering（vt. 使迷惑，使不知所措 ） great social change, and a feverish（adj. 发热的；极度兴奋的） pursuit of pleasure.,These were the years when the First World War was just over , when new inventions and manufacturing（n. 制造；产品；制造业） techniques greatly changed the way people lived.,Jazz
9、 Age moves from the Midwest to New York to learn the bond（债券） business.,Jay Gatsby Lives next to Nick in a mansion（宅邸）; throws huge parties, complete with catered （vt. 投合，迎合；满足需要；提供饮食及服务） food, open bars, and orchestras; people come from everywhere to attend these parties, but no one seems to know m
10、uch about the host.,Daisy Buchanan Shallow（肤浅的） girl is the embodiment （n. 体现；化身；具体化） of Gatsbys 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（不负责任地；不靠谱地）.,Jordan Baker A cynical（愤世妒俗的；冷嘲的） and conceited（自负的；逞能的；
11、狂想的） woman who cheats in golf; wants Nick to go out with her.,Myrtle Wilson Tom has an affair（风流韵事） with this married woman, and then abandons her after he become bored with her.,The analysis of the movie,Theme,The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s The unrestrained (adj.无限制的) desire for mon
12、ey and pleasure surpassed（vt.胜过，优于） more noble（贵族的） goals. When World War I ended in 1918, the generation of young Americans who had fought the war became intensely（强烈地；紧张地；热情地） disillusioned（adj. 醒悟的；幻想破灭的；不抱幻想的）, as the brutal carnage（残酷的屠杀） that they had just faced made the Victorian social moral
13、ity（n. 道德；品行，美德） of early-twentieth-century America seem like stuffy（古板的）, empty hypocrisy(伪善）.,West Egg represents the self-made rich ; East Egg represents the established（确定的；已制定的，已建立的） aristocracy (n.贵族，特权阶级). A person from any social background could, potentially, make a fortune, but the America
14、n aristocracy（贵族） scorned （鄙视）the newly rich industrialists and speculators（n. 投机者；思索者）.,Just as Americans have given America meaning through their dreams for their own lives, Gatsby instills（逐渐灌输） Daisy with a kind of idealized perfection that she neither deserves（应受） nor possesses（掌握）. American dr
15、eam in the 1920s is ruined by the unworthiness of its objectmoney and pleasure.,Symbol,The Green Light: Because Gatsbys quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream, the green light also symbolizes that more generalized ideal. The green light represents Gatsbys hopes and dreams for
16、the future.,The Valley of Ashes It represents the moral and social decay（衰退） that results from the uninhibited（无拘束的；不受禁止的） pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge(满足；纵容；使高兴；使沉迷于) themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure. The valley of ashes also symbolizes the plight（困境；境况；誓约） of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality（活力，生气；生命力，生动性） as a result.,Fitzgeralds greatness lies in the fact that he found intuitive
