Consumer Culture in The Great Gatsby

F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby successfully portrays the“Jazz Age”.In the early 20th century,the United States transitioned from a production-based society to a consumer-based society,leading to an era of unparalleled prosperity.However,in the context of consumer culture,individuals often transition from being masters of their possessions to becoming enslaved by them.As a result,their behaviours and values become increasingly associated with extravagance and consumption.This paper uses Baudrillard’s theory of consumer society and textual analysis to explore the impact of consumer culture on human beings through the symbolization of men and objectification of women in The Great Gatsby.The meanings embedded in the novel are revealed from a different perspective.

Women Under Gazes in The Great Gatsby

Much more than simple viewing, gaze, which is a kind of concentrated thorough long-term viewing, makes the gazer and the gazed establish a complicated power relationship. Frequently, women are in a position of being gazed at by others instead of taking the initiative to have a counter gaze. Consequently, they are confronted with abnormal self identity construction and alienation under the gazes of others and the self gaze brought by others’ gazes. This is fully revealed in the experiences of three representative female characters in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. This paper elaborates on their experiences and the relative consequences under gazes-deviation of femininity and other aspects, in the hope of providing a refreshing perspective for the study on this novel, gaze and gender issues.

The Female Images of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is set in Long Island and New York City in the 1920s.It is the novella written by the American writer Scott Fitzgerald in 1925 and established Fitzgerald’s position in the history of modern American literature.However,the researches about The Great Gatsby are almost always confined to the interpretation of the American dream,writing skills and the fate of the characters analysis and the interpretation of the original language style.The papers on female images from the perspective of feminism are comparatively few.This paper firstly introduces The Great Gatsby and domestic and foreign researches on it.The first part analyzes the three main female characters in the novel in detail,the second part tells their final fates in the novel,and the third part analyzes the deep root causes of the tragic fates of these female characters from three aspects.

The Disillusionment of American Dream in The Great Gatsby

Focusing on Gatsby's dream in The Great Gatsby, I attempt to analyze the reason for the disillusionment of American Dream at the historical time of the 1920 s. From the micro perspective, Gatsby has four times of disillusionment altogether. The first one was from his birth to his leaving home, the second disillusionment came after his under Dan Cody's patron for several years, ended by Cody's sudden death leaving Gatsby no money actually inherited. His third disillusionment was the frustration of his love for Daisy as Daisy married to Tom Buchanan. Finally, his fourth disillusion brought him away altogether with his death, after the car accident committed by Daisy and Gatsby was mistakenly regarded as the murderer. In a macro perspective,Gatsby's death in the novel symbolizes the disillusionment of American Dream in the Jazz Age.

浅析巫宁坤译作The Great Gatsby

美国作家弗·斯各特·菲茨杰拉德的作品《了不起的盖茨比》广为流传,具有深远的影响力。国内也有诸多译者对该作品进行了翻译,其中以巫宁坤、姚乃强的译本最为出名。该文选取了巫宁坤先生的译本进行分析,首先从原著的背景开始介绍,进而对译本中的翻译方法与技巧进行分析,剖析其独特之处。

Lies Interspersed in the American Dream in The Great Gatsby

America was prosperous in material terms in the 1920 s but meanwhile experienced severe spiritual crisis at the same time."Traditional morals and values were challenged, and even‘American Dream'as the symbol of American spirit,was questioned."1 Under the urge of monetary benefits, lies made up by different main characters in the mere pursuit of their American dreams but end with the deceptive illusions.The article mainly reveals a recession of Americans' values in the form of self-centered falsehoods hidden in the prosperous surface of Jazz Age.

The Power of Money in FS. Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby

The topic of this paper is the pursuit of cultural studies focusing on cultural hegemony, introduces the notion of the dominant groups＇ power to control society. It will also raise the issue of how hegemonic classes live in 1920s. The objective is to analyze, using cultural studies, Antonio Gramsci＇s Hegemony, Scott Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby in order to come to some conclusions about depictions of aristocratic classes and powers in order to dominate powerless groups. Specifically, the research focuses on Jay Gatsby＇s struggles to face the hegemony of aristocratic groups, whose affluent supremacy. In the story, the new moneyed group, represented by Jay Gatsby, lives in West Egg while the aristocratic group, represented by Tom Buchanan, lives in East Egg. Tom is always the winner because he comes from the aristocratic groups, whose prestigious family. Therefore, Gatsby always loses compete against Tom no matter how hard Gatsby tries. By learning Gatsby＇s struggle in this novel, we gain a better understanding of how other powerless groups, not only in American society, but also other society in the world, who also struggle to compete with the aristocratic groups.

Causes of Gatsby's Tragedy──A comment on the novel "the Great Gatsby

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On the Confrontation Between Masculinism and Feminism in The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the conflicts and contradictions between men and women about society, family, love, and money, literally mirroring the patriarchal society constantly challenged by feminism in the 1920s of America. This paper intends to compare the features of masculinism and feminism in three aspects： gender, society, and morality. Different identifications of gender role between men and women lead to female protests against male superiority and pursuits of individual liberation. Meanwhile, male unshaken egotism and gradually expanded individualism of women enable them both in lack of sound moral standards. But compared with the female, male moral pride drives them with much more proper moral judge, which reflects Fitzgerald＇s support of the masculine society. Probing into the confrontation between masculinism and feminism, it is beneficial for further study on how to achieve equal coexistence and harmony between men and women.

An Analysis of the Disillusionment of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby Based on the Perspective of Consumerism

Consumption has been paid much more attention in China in recent years and it is more popular in literature as well. This paper is trying to analyze the disillusionment of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby from the perspective of consumerism. Readers can better learn about Gatsby＇s wasteful, luxurious and lavish consumption through the analysis of his great ambitions so that his twisted consumption impacts his wrong words and deeds and conduces his disillusionment of his American Dream.

A Comparative Study on Sentence Translation of Two Chinese Versions of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is an epitome of America in the 1920s. Among various Chinese versions, Wu Ningkun＇s and Yao Naiqiang＇s versions have gained wild acceptance. This paper studies their similarities in simple sentence, compound and complex sentence, as well as differences in word order and sentence segmentation. Furthermore, this paper studies similarities and differences of Wu＇s and Yao＇s sentence translation on the basis of Nida＇s Functional Equivalence （FE）.

Kaleidoscope in Jazz Age： On Symbolic Meanings of Colors in The Great Gatsby

F. S. Fitzgerald is one of the greatest American novelists and his work, The Great Gatsby is the paradigmatic writing of Jazz Age. In the fiction, the symbolic representation of colors is more strikingly exhibited, which is part and parcel of the total artistic achievement of this masterpiece. This essay intends to explore the symbolic meanings of colors in the novel, suggesting that the color imagery contributes to reproducing the kaleidoscope in the magnificent social life of Jazz Age and implies the inevitable disillusionment of the protagonist＇s American dream that is defined as his pursuit of romantic love with Daisy, further intertwined with the search for a personal grail.

The Hypocrisy and Corruption Underlying Wealth and Superficial Splendor—the theme of "The Great Gatsby

"The Great Gatsby"is a brilliant short novel written by Fitzgerald. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul,MInnesota on September24,1896. He was the only son of an upper middle class Catholic family. While he was at Princeton university,the young Fitzgerald developed his talent in writing. When the First World War broke out,he enlisted in the army,and in a training camp in Alabama,he met and fell in love with Zelda sayre,the southern belle who became his wife and who was the model for most of the beautiful and gay heroines of his fiction. His life with her was a mixture of great happiness and great misery and pain. In 1925,Fitzgerald published his most famous novel "The Great Gatsby". Before long,his wife became mentally ill. Fitzgerald declined as a writer. He worked regularly as a script-writer in Hollywood from 1937 to 1939,when he succumbed to alcoholism. He died of heart attack in 1940. His wife,Zelda,was sent to a sanitarium and died in a fire started by herself in the sanitarium。

Film Review of The Great Gatsby

This paper centers on the analysis of the mains plots and characters in the film The Great Gatsby. The film successfully revealed the luxuriousness of the life of American upper class, but failed to focus on the characterization.

Economic Dynamics and Consumer Culture in The Great Gatsby

It is generally believed that the initiative in the interdisciplinary study of literature and economy comes from the literary world,and The Great Gatsby by the American author F.Scott Fitzgerald is a case in point.The novel narrates the experience of Americans’pursuit of the American Dream in the 1920s,truthfully reflecting the economic and social conditions at that time.This paper analyses the economic dynamics and consumer culture represented in the novel.It approaches the prevailing consumer culture and the American Dream motif from the perspectives of money,status and love.It also examines how automobiles,as a new means of transportation,meet the needs of post-WWI Americans for efficient travel and conspicuous consumption.

The Writing Techniques of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a wonderful masterpiece by Fitzgerald whether when it refers to the content or refers to the artistic creation, and it is acknowledged as one of the greatest works of American literature in 20 century. The novel was strictly and prudently organized by Fitzgerald, which used lots of writing techniques and skills, such as symbolism, analogy and so on. These techniques contributed to deepen theme and increase artistic appeal. In this novel, Fitzgerald portrays the real state of American society vividly in 1920s with cold attitude and subtle analysis. This is the most typical tragicomedy about the realization and vanishment of ＂American dream＂ that describes the love tragedy between Gatsby and Daisy.

Using Freud's Theory of Personality Structure Analysis The great Gatsby

By using Freud's theory of personality structure, this paper analyzes Fitzgerald who is the author of The great Gatsby and his characters Gatsby and Nick, in order to explore their differences between personality structure theory and their fates. Although Fitzgerald is related to his work The great Gatsby, there are still contradiction among three personality structures of id,ego and superego.

An Interpretation of The Great Gatsby on the basis of Speech Act Theory

Speech act theory is a significant part in linguistics, and The Great Gatsby is a famous novel in the history of literature.The interpretation of The Great Gatsby is based on three kinds of speech acts, and they are locutionary act, illocutionary act, and perlocutionary act. Literary language can carry out speech act, and speech act accomplished by literary language can help writers express thought effectively.

Disillusion of American Dream——Analysis of Symbolic Meanings of Colors in The Great Gatsby

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's famous novel The Great Gatsby tells us a story about a young man named Gatsby who from thebottom of society,he tries to pursue love and happiness through struggle and hard-working,but finally the dream fails and he is mur-dered.In the novel Fitzgerald combines the symbol of colors with theme of the novel"the disillusion of American dream"tightly and wit-tingly creating an organic unity like nature itself.Via analyzing such writing skill,let readers have a better understanding of the essenceof American Dream and the luxurious and decadent living conditions and perplexed and blank mental states of the lost generations afterWWI.The Great Gatsby;