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1、The great Gatsby,Members：,What should we know about the author?,Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in St.Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896, the only son of anunsuccessful upper class father and an energetic mother of an Irish background.His family was socially prominent and genteelly poor. His gr
2、andfather on his mothers side had a small fortune in the business. This gave Scott some advantages in a money-oriented society, and eventually gave him his expensive education first in a fashionable Catholic preparatory school in New Jersey and then at Princeton University in 1913.,He is a productiv
3、e writer,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: Written in 1920s, the novel chronicles the anomie following the First World War. American society enjoyed unprecedent
4、ed levels of prosperity during the“roaring” 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers and led to an increase in organized crime. Although Fitzgerald, like Nick i
5、n his novel, idolized the riches and glamour of the age, he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and the lack of morality that went with it, a kind of decadence.Both Gatsby and the author have unforgettable unhappy youth, and both have got a tragic fate. Besides, their ways of getting
6、 “Golden Girls” are similar.,Lets have a quick look at the novel The plot of The Great Gatsby,Gatsby is a poor youth from the Midwest. He falls in love with Daisy, a girl from a wealthy family. As a poor lad, Gatsby is too poor to marry her, so Daisy is married to a rich young man named Tom Buchanan
7、. 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 partiesevery weekend in the hope of attracting the Buchanans to come. By chance his next-door neighbor, Nick Carraway, is
8、Daisys relative and he helps Gatsby to make an appointment. 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 and disillusionment come over him. Daisy and Tom do not really love each other. In fact, Tom has a mistress by the
9、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 Gatsbys car and kills Myrtle in an accident. In order to protect themselves, Daisy and Tom plot to shift the blame on to Gatsby, saying Gatsby has an affair with Myrtle a
10、nd he kills her eventually. Myrtles husband George Wilson breaks into Gatsbys house and shots him to death. The Buchanans escape, and the only two persons attending Gatsbys funeral are Nick and Gatsbys father, who reads the news in newspaper.,Famous aphorism in the novel,1. GENERAL RESOLVES No wasti
11、ng time at Shafters or a name, indecipherable No more smokeing or chewing Bath every other day Read one improving book or magazine per week Save $5.00 $3.00 per week Be better to parents. 个人决心：不要浪费时间去shafter家或者（名字，字迹不清）不再吸烟或嚼烟，每隔一天洗澡，每周读一本有益的书或杂志，每周存5块3块钱，对父母好点。 2. It eluded us then, but thats no ma
12、ttertomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms fartherAnd one fine morning So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. 我们继续奋发前进,逆流而上,被不断推回,直至回到往昔岁月。 3. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,“ he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world havent had the advantages that youve had.“ “每逢你想要对别人品头论足的时候，”他对我说，“要记住，世上并非所有的人，都有你那样的优越条件。”,thats the end,thanks for enjoying it hope you have a good time reading it,
