安徽三联学院外语学院美国文学课件Chapter 13 Hemingway and Fitzgerald.ppt

Major Characters Jordan Baker - A cynical and conceited woman who cheats in golf; wants Nick to go out with her. Myrtle Wilson - Tom has an affair with this married woman, and then abandons her after he become bored with her. George Wilson - Myrtle Wilson ‘s husband, who killed Gatsby and committed suicide after his wife’s death. Theme ----The decline of the American Dream The hollowness of the upper class Culture clash Early European settlers—— through hard work, courage, and determination one can achieve financial and personal success It has led to an emphasis on material wealth as a measure of success and/ or happiness. Appreciate Chapter Nine Questions: 1. What is the American Dream? 2. What is Gatsby’s dream? 3. Why Gatsby is great ? Homework 1. Whats your thought of reading A Clean, Well-Lighted Place? Please write a comment on it. 2. Search for William Faulkner’s personal information and main content and writing style of his The Sound and the Fury, and report to the class. Hemingway and Fitzgerald Content Ⅰ. The Lost Generation Ⅱ. Ernest Hemingway Ⅲ. F. Scott Fitzgerald Ⅰ. The Lost Generation The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American intellectuals, poets, artists and writers fled to France in the post WWI years to reject the values of American materialism and to seek the bohemian lifestyle in Paris. American poet Gertrude Stein actually coined the expression lost generation. The main representatives of Lost Generation include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. Ⅱ. Ernest Hemingway 1. Life Experience 2. His Works 3. The Old Man and the Sea 4. A Clean and Well-Lighted Place 1. Life Experience Ambulance driver in Italy in WWI Correspondent for the Toronto Star Correspondent on the loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War He fought in WWII and then settled in Cuba in 1945. Increasingly plagued by ill health and mental problems, and in July, 1961, he com