THE-GREAT-GATSBY--Jazz-Age-美国文学课presentation课件.pptVIP

Francis Scott Fitzgerald1896--1940 Spokesman for Jazz Age Poet Laureate F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota of mixed Southern and Irish descent. He was given three names after the writer of?The Star Spangled Banner（美国国歌）, to whom he was distantly related. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, was a salesman, a Southern gentleman, whose furniture business had failed. His greater impact to him was “even if?your business has failed，we have to maintain?the habit of generous?style”. Mary McQuillan, his mother, was the daughter of a successful wholesale grocer, and devoted to her only son. The turning point in his life was when he met Zelda Sayre while he was at one of the bases where he trained in 1918, herself as the daughter of a justice from Alabama Supreme Court and an aspiring writer . He proposed to her but failed as she thought he was just a poor boy. In 1920 appeared Fitzgerald’s first novel, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE《人间天堂》. The book gained a success which Fitzgerald celebrated energetically in parties and married Zelda successfully. Zelda danced on peoples dinner tables in endless parties to celebrate the immediate success. But that was not to be the ending for the Fitzgerald. They lived in New York City. He drank too much. She spent too much money. He promised himself to live a less costly life. Always, however, he spent more than he earned from writing. Fitzgerald is reported to have said to his friend, the American writer Ernest Hemingway, The very rich are different from you and me. Hemingway is reported to have answered, “Yes, they have more money.? In 1925,fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, considered great work. Although it initially met with little commercial success, this novel about the American dream of material success has become one of the most popular widely read and critically acclaimed works of fiction in American literature. The life of the title character, Jay Gatsby, has been compared to Fi