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 un...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.展开更多
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 g...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.展开更多
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 ...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.展开更多
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 ...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.展开更多
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...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.展开更多
"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 fami..."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。展开更多
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...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.展开更多
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 ...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.展开更多
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 l...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.展开更多
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,bu...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;展开更多
In the novel The Great Gatsby,three main female characters(Daisy Buchanan,Myrtle Wilson and Jordan Baker)each presents women with different social status in American’s Jazz Age.By analyzing these three characters,rea...In the novel The Great Gatsby,three main female characters(Daisy Buchanan,Myrtle Wilson and Jordan Baker)each presents women with different social status in American’s Jazz Age.By analyzing these three characters,readers could realize how the helplessness of the female characters contributes to their broken conscience and a further tragedy in that era.Moreover,the stereo situation of American society in theJazz Age is along vividly symbolized.展开更多
The Great Gatsby is universally recognized as one of the masterpieces in the world literature. This thesis adopts the methods of comparison, contrast, and quotation to explore why Great Gatsby is great. This thesis an...The Great Gatsby is universally recognized as one of the masterpieces in the world literature. This thesis adopts the methods of comparison, contrast, and quotation to explore why Great Gatsby is great. This thesis analyzes the text from the three aspects:the greatness in Gatsby's economic success, the greatness in Gatsby's perseverance of love, the greatness of Gatsby's personality. In this way, the readers can understand the great Gatsby's greatness.展开更多
The Great Gatsby,as an outstanding American novel,uses a variety of artistic techniques in his articles.Among them,the use of symbolic technique has added fascinating colors to the entire novel.This article will summa...The Great Gatsby,as an outstanding American novel,uses a variety of artistic techniques in his articles.Among them,the use of symbolic technique has added fascinating colors to the entire novel.This article will summarize and analyze the specific functions of symbolic technique in the entire novel through the concrete applications of symbolic technique in this novel.展开更多
As the spokesman of the Jazz Age, F.Scott.Fitzgerald revealed the disillusionment of the American Dream in his master-piece The Great Gatsby under the background of the 1920 s, or the Jazz Age.In the novel, the protag...As the spokesman of the Jazz Age, F.Scott.Fitzgerald revealed the disillusionment of the American Dream in his master-piece The Great Gatsby under the background of the 1920 s, or the Jazz Age.In the novel, the protagonist Jay Gatsby devoted his life to chasing his dream but was confronted with complete corruption in the end.This paper tries to enclose the tragic roots and causes of the doom of Gatsby's dream from three dimensions, i.e. Gatsby's innocent attitude toward social class distinction, his blind faith toward ideal love, and the cruelties of society.展开更多
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘"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。
基金funded by by the research project:Innovative Training Program for College Students of Sun Yat-sen University,“Economic Writing in American Literature of the 20th Century”(202210156)。
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘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;
文摘In the novel The Great Gatsby,three main female characters(Daisy Buchanan,Myrtle Wilson and Jordan Baker)each presents women with different social status in American’s Jazz Age.By analyzing these three characters,readers could realize how the helplessness of the female characters contributes to their broken conscience and a further tragedy in that era.Moreover,the stereo situation of American society in theJazz Age is along vividly symbolized.
文摘The Great Gatsby is universally recognized as one of the masterpieces in the world literature. This thesis adopts the methods of comparison, contrast, and quotation to explore why Great Gatsby is great. This thesis analyzes the text from the three aspects:the greatness in Gatsby's economic success, the greatness in Gatsby's perseverance of love, the greatness of Gatsby's personality. In this way, the readers can understand the great Gatsby's greatness.
文摘The Great Gatsby,as an outstanding American novel,uses a variety of artistic techniques in his articles.Among them,the use of symbolic technique has added fascinating colors to the entire novel.This article will summarize and analyze the specific functions of symbolic technique in the entire novel through the concrete applications of symbolic technique in this novel.
文摘As the spokesman of the Jazz Age, F.Scott.Fitzgerald revealed the disillusionment of the American Dream in his master-piece The Great Gatsby under the background of the 1920 s, or the Jazz Age.In the novel, the protagonist Jay Gatsby devoted his life to chasing his dream but was confronted with complete corruption in the end.This paper tries to enclose the tragic roots and causes of the doom of Gatsby's dream from three dimensions, i.e. Gatsby's innocent attitude toward social class distinction, his blind faith toward ideal love, and the cruelties of society.
