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His inner conflict represented by his affair with Jordan (he is attracted by the flashy upper class and repelled by its corruption) His moral growth (broke up with Jordan and returned to his hometown, the uncorrupted place Nick Carraway a perfect narrator who has contact with all the characters in the novel The dualism: involve himself in the story and to detach himself from the story so that the can stand aside and analyze that participation. ④ Symbols The Green Light (on dock of Daisy’s East Egg house) ? Gatsby’s hope to attain his dream Valley of Ashes –the living hell (Myrtle and George’s living place ? poverty); (industrial dumping ground ? corruption of the wealth) The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg (bespectacled带眼镜的 eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes) ? God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland 5.???? Style: the first step that American fiction has made since Henry James Fitzgerald was one of the great stylists in American literature. His prose is smooth, sensitive, and completely original in its diction and metaphors. Its simplicity and gracefulness, its skill in manipulating the relation between the general and the specific reveal his consummate artistry. (p225) Fitzgerald has become the spokesman of a crucial and revealing period in the cultural history of his country. Frost’s aesthetics: Frost depicts mostly New England landscape, but his poetry reflects the fragmentation of modern experience and alienation among modern men. He wrote in Wordsworthian style—plain speech of rural New Englanders, short traditional forms of lyric and narrative, and symbols from everyday country life. He had a lot of Emerson in him, seeing nature as a storehouse of analogy and symbol. Chapter 14 The Lost Generation Fitzgerald and Hemingway ⅠF. Scott Fitzgerald 2. His works This Side of Paradise Tales of the Jazz Age The Beautiful and the Damned The Great Gatsby (1925) Tender is the Night The Las