Scott_Fitzgerald_美国文学菲斯杰拉德英文的课件学习.ppt

弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德 Francis Scott Fitzgerald （1896－1940);Life and Career Major Works Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age The American Dream Writing Style ;Born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896 Had an expensive education in private schools at Princeton. Due to illness and neglect of academic study, he left the university in 1917 without graduation. ;Married Zelda Sayre, who exerted a strong influence on his literary career and his personal life. She was the prototype of a series of rich, beautiful women who figure prominently in his fiction. The young couple frequently went abroad and lived extravagantly a luxurious life. To keep earning enough money, Fitzgerald wrote short stories and novels at a rapid speed. ;The 1930s brought relentless decline for Fitzgerald with a series of misfortunes: his reputation declined, his wealth fell, his health failed. Zelda had suffered from some serious mental breakdowns which confined her in a sanitarium(疗养院) for the rest of her life. Alcoholism, loneliness and despair combined to ruin Fitzgerald. He died in 1940 of a heart attack.;Major works;Major works;Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age;Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age;Fitzgerald and the American Dream;Fitzgerald‘s own life was a mirror of the 1920s. He was the victim of his “American Dream.” He was fascinated with material wealth on one hand by writing hard to accumulate wealth to live an extravagant(铺张的) life, yet was bewildered(使迷惑) with the wealth on the other, fully aware of the underlying spiritual disorientation and moral decay. Finally in his life, alcoholism, loneliness and despair combined to ruin him.;Writing Style;Writing Style;Writing Style