Gatsby’s American Dream.docVIP

盖 茨 比 的 美 国 梦 Gatsby’s American Dream Abstract: F·Scott·Fitzgerald, an American author, is considered a spokesman of the “Jazz Age ”, his master piece, The Great Gatsby, vividly describes a picture that people pursued American Dream in early 20th century. Fitzgerald skillfully used his imagination to show the charm of symbols, and combined characterization in forceful style to understand the ultimate failure of American Dream. This paper analyzes characters of Gatsby, Daisy, Nick, Tom and Jordan, and their inimitable symbols, combines many different conventional symbols relating to Gatsby to understand his inevitable failure of American dream. To combine character analyses with symbolism to explore a theme will greatly improve the convincingness of the paper and reveal the theme of the paper in a vivid way. Key words: Gatsby; American Dream; characterization; symbolism 摘 要： 美国作家司各特·菲茨杰拉德被称为爵士时代的代言人，其代表作《了不起的盖茨比》栩栩如生的描写了二十世纪二十年代人们对美国梦的追求。菲茨杰拉德充分发挥想象力，将象征的魅力展现的淋漓精致，对人物性格的刻画入木三分，本文通过分析盖茨比，黛西，尼克，汤姆和乔丹的人物性格及其特有的象征，结合与盖茨比有关的事物本身的象征来阐述美国梦破灭的必然性。将人物性格分析与象征手法结合在一起探索一个主题，能使文章更有说服力，对主题的展现更加形象、生动。 关键词： 盖茨比；美国梦；人物性格；象征主义 Contents I.Introduction……………………………………..……….…….………1 II.Literature Review..………………………………………………..….2 III.The Introduction of American Dream……………………………...4 A. Its original………………………………………………………………4 B. Its development………………………………………………………….5 IV. Character Analyses and Symbolism in the Novel…………………5 A. To Introduce two chief meanings of characters………………………..5 1. Flat characters……………………………………………………5 2. Round characters…………………………………………………5 B. To introduce the meaning of symbol…………………………………...5 C. Three classes of symbols……………………………………………...6 1. Natural symbols…………………………………………………..6 2. Conventional symbols……………………………………………..6 3. Literary symbols………………………………………………….6 D. Analysis the chief characters and their symbols………………………..6 1. Gatsby…………………………………………………………...6 2. Nick……………………………………………………………...8 3. Tom…………………