The Great Gatsby论文.doc

The Social Perspective of American Dream Disillusionment 1. Author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896– December 21, 1940) was an American author of novel sand short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is 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, Tender is the Night and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.[1] In 1925, the publication of his masterpiece The Great Gatsby established his position in literary history. The Great Gatsby is a performance of the American Dream disillusionment. The novel condemns the Unite States privilege’s selfish and rude. Fitzgerald sympathetic description of Gatsby’s tragedy, and point out that the tragedy comes from his fantasy of love of life. In 1934, Fitzgerald published another novel Tender Is the Night, successful performance the upper-bourgeois selfishness and corruption.[2] 2. Jazz Age The Jazz Age was a movement that took place during the 1920s or the Roaring Twenties from which jazz music and dance emerged. The movement came about with the introduction of mainstream radio and the end of the war. This era ended in the 1930s with the beginning of The Great Depression but has lived on in American pop culture for decades. With the introduction of jazz came an entirely new cultural movement in places like the United States, France and England. 3. Lost Generation The Lost Generation is a term used to refer to the generation, actually an age cohort that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The