THE GREAT GATSBY英文教程文件.ppt

THE GREAT GATSBY —— Francis· Scott· Key· Fitzgerald 了不起的盖茨比 @Gabriel_Shin 2020/4/5 Francis· Scott· Key· Fitzgerald 2020/4/5 Life and Career The Great Gatsby 01 Discharged from the army in 1919;Publishing This Side of paradise in 1920 Born in a St.Pual middle-class family in1896; Enter Princeton at 17 writing The Romantic Egoist ;Falling in love with Zelda Sayre Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age published in 1920 2020/4/5 Life and Career The Great Gatsby 01 The Beautiful and damned published in 1922;as spokesman ofThe Lost Generation;Producing The Great Gatsby in 1925. Staring the writing The Last Tycoon which remained unfinished wuth his death in 1940. Marriage problem:Loneliness,alconhol... 2020/4/5 Life and Career The Great Gatsby 01 2020/4/5 Literary Characteristics The Great Gatsby 02 ? F· Fitzgerald:Excellent chronicler of Jazz Age . ? Greatness:Finding intuitively in his personal experience,the embodiment of the nation and creating a myth out of American life ? Pursuing his ideals:Objective enough to analyze,satirize and criticize them ? Simplicity and gracefulness ? Metaphors and symbols ? Bold impressionistic and color symbolism 2020/4/5 Literary Characteristics The Great Gatsby 02 ? 二十多年创作生涯，发表多部长篇小说和 160 多篇短篇小说。 ? 剧本 ：《美女和被诅咒的人》 (The Beautiful and the Damned) 、《了不起的盖茨比》 (The Great Gatsby) 、 《生死同心》、《女人》、《乱世佳人》、《居里夫人》、 《我最后一次见到巴黎》等 ? 短篇小说 ：《姑娘们与哲学家们》、《爵士时代的故事》 （ Tales of the Jazz Age ）、《富家公子》、《本杰 明·巴顿奇特的一生》、《柏思妮剪发》、《遗失的十年》 等。 ? 长篇小说 ：《最后一个大亨》 (The last Tycoon) 、《明 智的事》、《了不起的盖茨比》、《夜色温柔》 (Tender is the Night) 、《 人间天堂 》 (This Side of Paradise) 等 2020/4/5 The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby 03 First published on April 10,1925.It is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New york City during the summer of 1922 and is a critique of the American Dream Themes: ? The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s ? The Hollowness of the Upper Class 2020/4/5 The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Major Characters ? Nick Carraway -