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. Th