An Analysis of American Dream in The Great Gatsby 浅析《了不起的盖茨比》中的美国梦.doc

本科毕业论文 中文题目： 浅析《了不起的盖茨比》中的美国梦 外文题目： An Analysis of American Dream in The Great Gatsby 院 系 英语学院 专 业 英语（翻译） 年 级 2007级 学 号 学 生 指导教师 结稿日期 2011年5月7日 教务处制  浅析《了不起的盖茨比》中的美国梦 摘要：《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德1925年所写的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约市及长岛为背景的短篇小说。《了不起的盖茨比》问世，奠定了弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德在现代美国文学史上的地位Abstract The Great Gatsby is the most renowned masterpiece of F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, depicting a story that happened in New York city and Long Island during the 1920s. Due to its birth, Fitzgerald has gained his reputation in contemporary American literature history. This paper consists of two parts. The first part of the paper introduces American dream which concludes historical retrospect, historical origin and its development, aiming to trace back to the reasons that give rise to the failure of American dream. Then, the paper demonstrates the conflict between American dream and the lower classes of American society, including the conflict between American dream and the lure of material world real, and the conflict between American dream and change of moral standards of American lower class. Key words: The Great Gatsby; American Dream；American lower class Acknowledgements First and foremost, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor, Professor , both for her intellectual guidance and for her warm and constant encouragement during the process of writing this thesis. With patience and prudence, she labored through drafts of this thesis and pointed out defects in my theorizing. Therefore, I owe all the merits in this thesis, if any, to her, though I am fully aware that the thesis might still contain some mistakes, for which I bear the whole responsibility. My cordial and sincere thanks go to all the teachers in the College of English, whose interesting and informative courses have be