伟大地盖茨比-美国历史与文化 英文版.pptVIP

Life  He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896. He received education in Princeton University. But due to illness and neglect of academic study, he left the university in 1917 without graduation. He joined the army. In his army days, he met Zelda Sayre. 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 extravagantly a luxurious life. To keep earning enough money, Fitzgerald wrote short stories and novels at a rapid speed. Life  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 serious mental breakdowns which confined her in a sanitarium?(宁养院)for the rest of her life. Alcoholism, loneliness and despair combined to ruin Fitzgerald. He died in 1940 of a heart attack. Major works: This Side of Paradise《人间天堂》 Tender Is the Night《夜色温柔》 Tales of the Jazz Age All the Sad Young Man 《一代悲哀的年轻人》 The Last Tycoon 《最后的大亨》 The Jazz Age The Jazz Age The 20’s are also referred to as “The Jazz Age,” a term coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1922. The Jazz Age began with the end of WWI, at a time when, for the first time, the U.S. had emerged as a world power, and ended with the stock market crash of 1929. The Jazz Age It is a time marked by frivolity (轻松快活), carelessness, hedonism(享乐主义) and excitement in the life of the flaming youth. The Jazz Age is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby: the plot Changes of American dream Thank you! * * Class 1008 Group members: 梁 钰 林 芳 张 瑶 刘梦秋 Contents Ⅰ. Author Ⅱ. Background Ⅲ. Plot Ⅳ. Theme F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Spokesman of the Jazz Age She is a beautiful southern girl, from a wealthy family. She loved social activities very much and told Fitzgerald that she loved him but she was too expensive for him.