论《了不起的盖茨比》中的戏剧冲突

On the Dramatic Conflict in The Great Gatsby

《了不起的盖茨比》是美国现代文学中的经典作品。菲茨杰拉德以艺术家的创作手法,描述了一战后美国社会表面繁荣下的道德腐败和精神空虚,并通过盖茨比的悲剧揭示了美国现实生活中的精神荒原和必然会破灭的“美国梦”。小说借助戏剧冲突这一创作艺术来表现以上主题,展示和完成人物性格的刻画。

The Great Gatsby is a classic of modern American literature. With the great artistic skills, Fitzgerald has succeeded in describing the moral corruption and spiritual vacuum under the superficial prosperity m American society, exposes the wasteland in American social reality, and illustrates the inevitable failure of American dream. This paper focuses on the dramatic conflicts in the given novel, intending to analyze how they help with the thematic development of the novel and the characterization.