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Life  He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota (明尼苏达州） 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. Fitzgerald and his Golden Girl Life  Zelda: the prototype (原型）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（接连不断的） 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. 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, 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. Jay Gatsby 盖茨比（莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥(Leonardo DiCaprio)— a young, mysterious millionaire . He is in love with Daisy . His entire motivation for pursuing wealth and throwing huge parties at his mansion is to attract and recapture Daisy from the wealthy Tom . 黛西是汤姆的妻子，盖茨比的情人，初期与盖茨比真心相爱，后来变了，是因为欺骗，是因为盖茨比内在低劣的贫苦。 Nike moves to New York for the summer to visit his cousin Daisy . His next-door neighbor is the mysterious Jay Gatsby .The rumor mill spins and nobody knows who Gatsby really is. 某个夏天，尼克搬到纽约拜访他的堂妹黛西。他的邻居就是神秘的盖茨比，盖茨比每个周末都要举办最为奢华的派对。一时间谣言四起，没人知道盖茨比的真实身份。 Nike becomes friends with Gatsby and gets swept up into his