透视现实生活中的爱情The Disillusionment for Gatsby’ American Dream —Analysis of Love in Reality [2]
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关键词:美国梦爱情金钱破灭The American Dreamlovemoneydisillusionment
standard life, not mention to afford the extravagant life of Daisy.
When Gatsby becomes a millionaire and he has the financial ability to give Daisy a better life, Daisy takes much notice of him indeed and she really has the thought to be in love with him again. Unfortunately, Gatsby’s American Dream is broken quickly when he is dead and Daisy, does not feel any sadness but only happiness, leaves for another city with his husband. There is something separates them from each other, and it is wealth and social status. If Gatsby has much money in the very beginning, they may have been together and lives happily ever after. According to the break of Gatsby’s American Dream, there is a truth in reality that love and money have a close relationship. .
I. Introduction to Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is best known for his novels and short stories which chronicle the excesses of America's Jazz Age during the 1920s, and he was born in St. Paul, whose family was considered socially prominent and genteelly poor. Fitzgerald was both a victim and a keen onlooker, of the extravagant gaudy of the Jazz Age. His fictional world was the best embodiment of the spirit of the American society in which he showed a particular interest in the upper class, since they felt excused from seeking the common good. To plug into their personal adventures, they not only engaged themselves in casual *** and heavy drinking, but also spent money extravagantly and enjoyed themselves to their hearts’ content. However, beneathing their masks of relaxation and joviality there was only sterility, meaninglessness and futility and amid the grandeur and extravagance, a deniable junta position of appearance with reality, of the pretence of gaiety with the tension underneath, is easily recognizable in Fitzgerald’s novels and stories. (吴建国, 2002,6: 17)
First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby met with excellent reviews, with T.S.Eliot being among the first to comment on the book, calling it the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James’. F. Scott Fitzgerald died believing himself a failure. The obituaries were condescending, and he seemed destined for literary obscurity. The first phase of the Fitzgerald resurrection--"revival" does not properly describe the process--occurred between 1945 and 1950. By 1960, he had achieved a secure place among America's enduring writers: The Great Gatsby, a work that seriously examines the theme of aspiration in an American setting, defines the classic American novel.
Almost every one of American writers has touched on the theme of American dream, but as far as the breadth and depth, no one is equal to F. S. Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is the model of American dream in the
history of American literature.
II. Analysis of Gatsby’s American Dream
In different social and historical backgrounds, the concepts of American Dream are different, and for different people, they have different understandings of American Dream and the ways to pursue their American Dream are also various. As for Gatsby, the symbol of his final American Dream is to win the love of Daisy. However, owing to the fact that Gatsby is subject to their different social status and life styles, his American Dream is doomed to be a failure.
A. American Dream in Different Social and Historical Backgrounds
The American Dream arose in the colonial period and developed in the nineteenth century, based on the assumption of each person, no matter wh
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