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1、any illusion about Daisy, and even led to his tragedies.One day Daisy was in a dmnken driving Gatsby's car ran over and caused an accident that killed Tom's mistress, and she planned a plot with Tom to put the crime to Gatsby. It led to the mistress9 husband shot Gatsby. Gatsby died, only hi

2、s father and Nick attended the funeralNick witnessed the virtual mood of human reality. At the end, Nick backed to his hometown with a tragedy moodIntroduction of the author：The Great Gatsby is written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was born in 1896 and died in Hollywood in 1940, and grew up in St. Pau

3、l, Minnesota He is the most important representative of the "Jazz Age, He published the novel Tender is the Night, Paradise, the Last Tycoon and so on; and published over 160 short novels, for instance, Benjamin's Fantasy Trip, Ice Palace, Winter Dream and so on. The twentieth century, the

4、United States academic community selected 100 the best novels in the river of English literature The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night are the list. And The Great Gatsby is second. He first published The Great Gatsby on April 10, 1925, a story set in Island North Shore and New York City during th

5、e summer of 1922Themes, Motifs & SymbolsThemesThe Decline of the American Dream in the 1920sOn the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope Though all of its action ta

6、kes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island, New York, The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unpre

7、cedented prosperity and material excess Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties and wild jazz musicpitomized in The Great Gatsby by the

8、opulent parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night一resulted ultimately in the corruption of the American dream, as the unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed more noble goals. When World War I ended in 1918, the generation of young Americans who had fought the war became intensely

9、 disillusioned, as the brutal carnage that they had just faced made the Victorian social morality of early-twentieth-century America seem like stuffy, empty hypocrisy. The dizzying rise of the stock market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden, sustained increase in the national wealth and a n

10、ewfound materialism, as people began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels. A person from any social background could, potentially, make a fortune, but the American aristocracy一families with old wealth一scorned the newly rich industrialists and speculators Additionally, the passage of the Eigh

11、teenth Amendment in 1919, which banned the sale of alcohol, created a thriving underworld designed to satisfy the massive demand for bootleg liquor among rich and poor alikeFitzgerald positions the characters of The Great Gatsby as emblems of these social trends Nick and Gatsby, both of whom fought

12、in World War I, exhibit the newfound cosmopolitanism and cynicism that resulted from the war. The various social climbers and ambitious speculators who attend Gatsby I parties evidence the greedy scramble for wealth. The clash between "old moneys and "new moneys manifests itself in the nov

13、ePs symbolic geography: East Egg represents the established aristocracy, West Egg the self-made rich. Meyer Wolfshiem and Gatsby's fortune symbolize the rise of organized crime and bootlegging.As Fitzgerald saw it (and as Nick explains in Chapter IX), the American dream was originally about disc

14、overy, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness In the 1920s depicted in the novel, however, easy money and relaxed social values have corrupted this dream, especially on the East Coast. The main plotline of the novel reflects this assessment, as Gatsby's dream of loving Daisy is ruined by th

15、e difference in their respective social statuses, his resorting to crime to make enough money to impress her, and the rampant materialism that characterizes her lifestyle. Additionally, places and objects in The Great Gatsby have meaning only because characters instill them with meaning: the eyes of

16、 Doctor T. J. Eckleburg best exemplify this idea. Ill Nick，s niind, the ability to create meaningful symbols constitutes a central component of the American dream, as early Americans invested their new nation with their own ideals and values.Nick compares the green bulk of America rising from the oc

17、ean to the green light at the end of Daisy I dock. Just as Americans have given America meaning through their dreams for their own lives, Gatsby instills Daisy with a kind of idealized perfection that she neither deserves nor possesses. Gatsbys dream is mined by the unworthiness of its object, just

18、as the American dream in the 1920s is ruined by the unworthiness of its object一money and pleasure Like 1920s Americans in general, fruitlessly seeking a bygone era in which their dreams had value, Gatsby longs to re-create a vanished past一his time in Louisville with Daisy一but is incapable of doing s

19、o. When his dream crumbles, all that is left for Gatsby to do is die; all Nick can do is move back to Minnesota, where American values have not decayedThe Hollowness of the Upper ClassOne of the major topics explored in The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth, specifically, how the newly minted

20、millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the countiys richest families. In the novel, West Egg and its denizens represent the newly rich, while East Egg and its denizens, especially Daisy and Tom, represent the old aristocracy. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as

21、being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. Gatsby, for example, lives in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce, and does not pick up on subtle social signals, such as the insincerity of the Sloanes9 invitation to lunch. In contrast, the

22、 old aristocracy possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by the Buchanans tastefill home and the flowing white dresses of Daisy and Jordan Baker.What the old aristocracy possesses in taste, however, it seems to lack in heart, as the East Eggers prove themselves careless, inconside

23、rate bullies who are so used to money's ability to ease their minds that they never worry about hurting others. The Buchanans exemplify this stereotype when, at the end of the novel, they simply move to a new house far away rather than condescend to attend Gatsby's fiineral. Gatsby, on the o

24、ther hand, whose recent wealth derives from criminal activity, has a sincere and loyal heart, remaining outside Daisy，s window until four in the morning in Chapter VII simply to make sure that Tom does not hurt her. Ironically, Gatsby's good qualities (loyalty and love) lead to his death, as he

25、takes the blame for killing Myrtle rather than letting Daisy be punished, and the Buchanansbad qualities (fickleness and selfishness) allow them to remove themselves from the tragedy not only physically but psychologicall y.MotifsGeographyThroughout the novel, places and settings epitomize the vario

26、us aspects of the 1920s American society that Fitzgerald depicts. East Egg represents the old aristocracy, West Egg the newly rich, the valley of ashes the moral and social decay of America, and New York City the uninhibited, amoral quest for money and pleasure Additionally, the East is connected to

27、 the moral decay and social cynicism of New York, while the West (including Midwestern and northern areas such as Minnesota) is connected to more traditional social values and ideals. Nick's analysis in Chapter IX of the story he has related reveals his sensitivity to this dichotomy: though it i

28、s set in the East, the story is really one of the West, as it tells how people originally from west of the Appalachians (as all of the main characters are) react to the pace and style of life on the East Coast.Weather As in much of Shakespeares work, the weather in The Great Gatsby unfailingly match

29、es the emotional and narrative tone of the story. Gatsby and Daisy's reunion begins aniid a pouring rain, proving awkward and melancholy; their love reawakens just as the sun begins to come out. Gatsbys climactic confrontation with Tom occurs on the hottest day of the summer, under the scorching

30、 sun (like the fatal encounter between Mercutio and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet). Wilson kills Gatsby on the first day of autumn, as Gatsby floats in his pool despite a palpable chill in the aira symbolic attempt to stop time and restore his relationship with Daisy to the way it was five years before

31、, in 1917.SymbolsThe Green LightSituated at the end of Daisy's East Egg dock and barely visible from Gatsby，s West Egg lawn, the green light represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby associates it with Daisy, and in Chapter I he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guidin

32、g light to lead him to his goal. Because Gatsby's quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream, the green light also symbolizes that more generalized ideal. In Chapter IX, Nick compares the green light to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have looked to early settlers o

33、f the new natio n.The Valley of Ashes First introduced in Chapter II, the valley of ashes between West Egg and New York City consists of a long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. It represents the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure. The valle