F.-Scott-Fitzgerald-美国文学菲斯杰拉德.ppt

F. Scott Fitzgerald 斯科特?菲茨杰拉德 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the Lost Generation of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also authored 4 collections of short stories, as well as 164 short stories in magazines during his lifetime. Life and Career Primary Works Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age The American Dream Writing Style Outline 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. Life and career 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. Key works novels This Side of Paradise《天堂的另一面》: His first novel. It won for him wealth and fam