非道德女性群像——评《了不起的盖茨比》中的女性人物刻画

The Absence of "The Good Women"——Comment on the Female Characters in The Great Gatsby

弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德在《了不起的盖茨比》中展现了一幅轻浮放浪、玩世不恭的非道德女性群像。书中众多的女性人物中 ,没有一个具有良好的行为或道德责任感。一方面 ,小说通过展现这幅非道德女性群像 ,让人们看到了那个世界的腐化与堕落 ;另一方面 ,对所有女性人物的负面刻画也暴露出对一战后涌现出的新女性形象———现代女性———的不满情绪。

The women (both the major and minor female characters) in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby are immoral crowd, of whom none is seen to have any good behavior or moral responsibility. On the one hand, the book succeeds in presenting a corrupt world by a portrayal of its corrupted women; on the other hand, its negative characterizations of women embody its discomfort with the Post-World-War-I Modern Women.