第五讲 F. Scott Fitzgerald.ppt

Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age Fitzgerald is considered as the spokesman of the Jazz Age. He is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age with a double vision of fascination and aloofness（超然的态度）. Fitzgeralds fiction, the Great Gatsby, is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald and the American Dream Fitzgeralds fictions often deal with the bankruptcy of the American Dream . Fitzgeralds own life was a mirror of the 1920s. He was the victim of his American Dream. The Great Gatsby The plot: a tragedy of a young man’s disillusion/ bankruptcy of American dream. Theme: The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s. Nick Carraway The novel’s narrator, The next-door neighbor of the mysterious Jay Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is told entirely through Nick’s eyes; As Daisys cousin, he facilitates the rekindling of the romance between her and Gatsby. Tom Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband. Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. He has no moral values about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation. Chapter 9 -Summary Nick calls Daisys house to speak to her but she and Tom have left without any way to be reached. He also tries to get in contact with Meyer Wolfsheim but cannot. A few days later Henry Gatz, Gatsbys father, comes to the house. He had heard about Gatsbys death in the paper and came at once. On the day of the funeral, Nick goes into the city to see Wolfsheim. Nick has to force himself into Wolfsheims office, but Meyer refuses to come to the funeral, saying that he cant get mixed up in another mans death. When Nick returns to the house he and Mr. Gatz talk about what Gatsby was like when he was younger. Gatz shows Nick a schedule that Gatsby wrote out when he was