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F Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) Born in St. Paul, Minnesota A spokesman for the so-called Jazz Age, setting a personal as well as literary example for a generation whose first commandment was: Do what you will. His novels such as The Great Gatsby (1925), Tender Is the Night (1934), and The Last Tycoon (1941), amplify详述 the melancholy he discovered beneath the glitter灿烂 of American-style success. Jazz Age A period of U.S. history in the 1920s noted for general prosperity, financial speculation金融投机, Prohibition, the emergence of organized crime, the popularity of jazz and the open pursuit pleasures. It is an epithet applied to the era of the 1920s in the U.S., whose frenetic（狂热的 ） youth of the post war period were conceived as more juvenile（孩子气的 ） and hedonistic（享乐主义） than the “lost generation”. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was a classic representation of the period. Prohibition: Enacted in 1919 (and ultimately repealed in 1933), this amendment made it illegal for anyone to manufacture, sell, or transport liquor of any sort. Characters Jay Gatsby— rags-to-riches success story makes him an embodiment of the American dream, idealistic, na?ve, Daisy Buchannan Tom Buchannan Nick Carraway Narrator Nick Carraway: both as a character and the narrator As a character, he is “within”, involving himself in the actions of the story. As a narrator, he is standing away from the story and able to give an objective presentation to the events and characters of the novel. How? Questions (chapter 3) How are Gatsby’s parties? What do they show? Who are his party guests? What do they do or not do in the parities? What does this show? What information do you get about Gatsby himself? What is the relationship between Gatsby and his guests? Are there differences between Nick and other guests? Why is the man with owl-eyed spectacles impressed with the fact that the books in the libraries are real? What does he expect? What does the fact that he has bee