尽现美国二十年代的华丽与不安.ppt

* * 尽现美国二十年代的华丽与不安 美国Modern Library 票选20世纪最佳的100本小说第二名 The Great Gatsby Gatsby and Daisy Jay Gatsby Daisy Buchannan Tom Buchannan Nick Jordan Baker Mytle Wilson George Wilson (newly wealthy businessman whose only desire is to be reunited with Daisy) (the object of Gatsby’s desire who represents women of upper class) (Daisy’s husband,has old money) (lower class) (Mytle’s husband who runs a garage gas station) (Narrator of the story) dating friends friendsneighbor In love with married having affair married kills The Valley of Ashes （The Wilsons ) West Egg (Gatsby,Nick) East Egg (Tom,Daisy) Accidentally kills cousins Is blamed for her death classmates If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life,… it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York----every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. Gatsby’s Party “Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.” “I don’t think it’s so much that. It’s more that he was a German spy during the war. I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany.” “Oh, no, it couldn’t be that, because he was in the American army during the war.” “ He told me once he was an Oxford man.” A Mysterious Host But young men didn’t drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound. “He’