解析菲兹杰拉德作品中的美国梦的幻灭英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

i i Acknowledgements I am particularly grateful for my respected supervisor, Professor Wang Jinhua, for his constant patience and encouragement during my writing process, for his invaluable suggestions and guidance, without which, my thesis would not have come into being. It is he who makes my writing process interesting and meaningful. My parents have given me an enormous amount of love and support over the years, and they deserve special thanks. To Jane F. Zenger whose grandmother family is a proof that the American Dream is indeed alive. I will also thank all the teachers who taught me in my studying period. Especially, I would like to thank two websites for their brilliant notes and criticism about F. Scott Fitzgerald and his works: HYPERLINK / www.E and HYPERLINK / www.sparkN. ii ii Abstract The American Dream is a peculiar phenomenon of the American land. As old as the American history, the American Dream is the aftermath of pursuit of the ultimate freedom in the empirical world plus the specific conditions in American land. By the transcendental superiority demoted into empirical superiority and the transcendental inferiority absent, the American Dream is degenerating into a nightmare, the process of which is reflected in the history of the American literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s works typically depicts the disillusion of the American Dream semi-biographically around the theme of wealth, beauty and youth. His first novel, HYPERLINK /wiki/This_Side_of_Paradise This Side of Paradise, depicts the disillusion of Amory Blaine, for he revolts against the old morality in order to find himself. The disillusion of Antony Patch loses himself and degenerates spiritually in HYPERLINK /wiki/The_Beautiful_and_Damned The Beautiful and Damned. Gatsby is disillusioned in the process to find his symbolized eternal love by the pursuit of the American Dream in HYPERLINK /wiki/The_Great_Gatsby The Great HYPERLINK /wiki/The_Great_Gatsby Gatsby. Dick Diver desires to combi