论《了不起的盖茨比》中的禁酒令文化

On the Prohibition Culture in The Great Gatsby

《了不起的盖茨比》是菲茨杰拉德在美国禁酒时期创作的最重要的美国文学经典之一,集中描绘了美国禁酒令引发的重大政治和社会问题。从新历史主义或文化研究所强调的文学文本与社会情境之间的关联、文学文本中的社会存在以及文学文本周围的社会存在等方面,阐释《了不起的盖茨比》中的禁酒令文化,挖掘小说中禁酒令文化的多重表征,即美国民众纵酒狂欢、非法私酒泛滥、黑帮帮派争斗、政府官员堕落、时髦女性言行举止等,从而更好理解小说与禁酒令二者之间的内在联系。

The novel The Great Gatsby,written by F.Scott Fitzgerald during the Prohibition,is one of the greatest American classic works,which directly depicts the significant American political and social issues brought about by the National Prohibition.The Prohibition culture in The Great Gatsby is interpreted from the perspectives of the relationship between the text and the historical situation,the social rules and dictates found within the text,and a reflection of the work’s historical situation as evidenced in the text,emphasized by New Historicism or Cultural Studies.The multiple representations of the Prohibition culture in The Great Gatsby,such as the American drinking binges,wide spread of illegal alcohol,the increase in gang rivalries,the corruption of government officials,the emergence of flappers’manners and conduct,help better understand the intrinsic link between the novel and the National Prohibition.