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1、F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby 施忆亭施忆亭 08022024/8/The Great Gatsby Breif introduction to Breif introduction to FitzgeraldFitzgeraldFitzgeralds Life Fitzgeralds Major Works2024/8/ Breif Introduction F. Scott Fitzgerald Born in1896 in a genteely poor family in Minnesota.Died on December, 21,
2、1944, when he was only 44 years old. 2024/8/lFitzgerald was the representative figure of the 1920s.lThe mirror of the exciting age and spokesman of the Jazz Age.l Fitzgerald is considered a member of the Lost Generation of the twenties. lHe never failed to remain detached and foresee the failure and
3、 tragedy of the Dollar Decade2024/8/Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age The Jaza Age refers to the 1920s, a time marked by frivolity(轻轻松快活松快活), carelessness, hedonism(享享乐乐主主义义) and excitement in the life of the flaming youth. Fitzgerald is largely responsible for the term and many of his literary works port
4、ray it. The Jazz Age is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby. 2024/8/Fitzgerald and American DreamAmerican Dream is a popular belief that people can achieve success, whether it is wealth, fame or love through honest hard working in a new world of liberty, equality, chances and promises. Fitzg
5、eralds fictions often deal with the bankruptcy of the American Dream, which is highlighted by the disillusionment of the protagonists personal dreams due to the clashes between their romantic vision of life and the sordid reality. In the 1920s, the American Dream was bankrupt in the sense that the w
6、ealthy people were spiritually disorientated and morally corrupted. The fact that the rich people turned to be more indifferent and careless brought forth the disillusionment of American Dream2024/8/The Mirror of the Age Fitzgeralds own life was a mirror of the 1920s. He was the victim of his Americ
7、an Dream. He was fascinated with material wealth on one hand by writing hard to accumulate wealth to live an extravagant life, yet was bewildered with the wealth on the other, fully aware of the underlying spiritual disorientation and moral decay. Finally in his life, alcoholism, loneliness and desp
8、air combined to ruin him. 2024/8/ Fitzgeralds Life“Roaring Twenties”“A moon that never rose”Spokesman of the Jazz Age 爵士爵士乐时乐时代的代的“编编年史家年史家”和和“桂冠桂冠诗诗人人”。 A middle-class familyEducation:had an expensive education in private schools at Princeton. due to illness and neglect of academic study, he left t
9、he university in 1917 without graduation.2024/8/Married Zelda Sayre, who exerted a strong influence on his literary career and his personal life. Zelda: the prototype of a series of rich, beautiful women who figure prominently in his fiction. The young couple frequently went abroad and lived extrava
10、gantly a luxurious life. To keep earning enough money, Fitzgerald wrote short stories and novels at a rapid speed. 2024/8/The 1930s brought relentless decline for Fitzgerald with a series of misfortunes: his reputation declined, his wealth fell, his health failed. Zelda had suffered from some seriou
11、s mental breakdowns which confined her in a sanitarium for the rest of her life. Alcoholism, loneliness and despair combined to ruin Fitzgerald. He died in 1940 of a heart attack.2024/8/ Zelda Sayre While at Camp Sheridan, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre the golden girl. They two were engaged in 1919, an
12、d Fitzgerald moved into an apartment in New York City to try to lay a foundation for his life with Zelda. Working at an advertising firm and writing short stories,he was unable to convince Zelda that he would be able to support her,leading her to break off the engagement.The couple were married in N
13、ew Yorks St. Patricks Cathedral. 2024/8/ Fitzgeralds Major Works lFirst novel: This side of paradise 天堂的天堂的这这一一边边(1919)lSecond novel: The Beautiful and the Damned美美丽丽的和可的和可诅诅咒的咒的lFlappers and Philosophers(1920)时时髦女髦女和哲学家和哲学家lTales of the Jazz Age（1922） 爵士爵士时时代代lMasterpiece: The Great Gatsby (1925) 了
14、不起的盖茨比了不起的盖茨比lTender is the Night 1934 夜色温柔夜色温柔 2024/8/ The Great GatsbyAuthor F. Scott FitzgeraldCountry United StatesLanguage EnglishGenre(s) NovelPublisher Charles Scribners SonsPublication date April 10, 1925Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)ISBN NA & reissue ISBN 0-7432-7356-7 (2004 paperb
15、ack edition)Major characters Daisy Buchanan Jay Gatsby Tom Bucnanan Nick Carraway Myrtle Wilson Jordan Baker Wilson cousinneighborcoupleloverlovercouplelover142024/8/ ThemeAt the beginning of the story, Gatsby, a poor young man from the Midwest, is in love with but rejected by an upper-class woman,
16、Daisy. He later attains the wealth by bootlegging and other criminal activities. Yet his fascination with and pursuit of money is but the means of recapturing the past and regaining his lost love. And for him, Daisy is the representation of a kind of idealized happiness. So Gatsbys real dream is tha
17、t of achieving a new status and a new essence, of rising to a loftier place in the mysterious hierarchy of human worth. That is why Daisy Buchanan seems so charming to Gatsby and that is why Gatsby has directed his whole life to winning back her love. Yet his dream ended up with Daisys indifference
18、and carelessness. 2024/8/ Writing StyleFitzgeralds prose is smooth, sensitive, and completely original in its diction and metaphors. Its simplicity and gracefulness, its skill in manipulating the relation between the general and the specific, its bold impressionistic and colorful quality, in short, its competence to convey the vision of the author all reveal Fitzgeralds consummate artistry.LOGO
