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1、,THE GREAT GATSBY,FrancisScottKeyFitzgerald,了不起的蓋茨比,Gabriel_Shin,2020/8/24,Life and Career,Part1,Literary Characteristics,Part2,THe Great Gatsby,Part3,FrancisScottKeyFitzgerald,2020/8/24,Life and Career,The Great Gatsby,01,Discharged from the army in 1919;Publishing This Side of paradise in 1920,Bor

2、n in a St.Pual middle-class family in1896; Enter Princeton at 17,writing The Romantic Egoist;Falling in love with Zelda Sayre,Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age published in 1920,2020/8/24,Life and Career,The Great Gatsby,01,The Beautiful and damned published in 1922;as spokesman of

3、The Lost Generation;Producing The Great Gatsby in 1925.,Staring the writing The Last Tycoon which remained unfinished wuth his death in 1940.,Marriage problem:Loneliness,alconhol.,2020/8/24,Life and Career,The Great Gatsby,01,2020/8/24,Literary Characteristics,The Great Gatsby,02,FFitzgerald:Excelle

4、nt chronicler of Jazz Age. Greatness:Finding intuitively in his personal experience,the embodiment of the nation and creating a myth out of American life Pursuing his ideals:Objective enough to analyze,satirize and criticize them Simplicity and gracefulness Metaphors and symbols Bold impressionistic

5、 and color symbolism,2020/8/24,Literary Characteristics,The Great Gatsby,02,二十多年創(chuàng)作生涯，發(fā)表多部長篇小說和160多篇短篇小說。 劇本：美女和被詛咒的人(The Beautiful and the Damned)、了不起的蓋茨比(The Great Gatsby)、生死同心、女人、亂世佳人、居里夫人、我最后一次見到巴黎等 短篇小說：姑娘們與哲學家們、爵士時代的故事（Tales of the Jazz Age）、富家公子、本杰明巴頓奇特的一生、柏思妮剪發(fā)、遺失的十年等。 長篇小說：最后一個大亨(The last Ty

6、coon)、明智的事、了不起的蓋茨比、夜色溫柔(Tender is the Night)、人間天堂(This Side of Paradise)等,2020/8/24,The Great Gatsby,The Great Gatsby,03,First published on April 10,1925.It is set on Long Islands North Shore and in New york City during the summer of 1922 and is a critique of the American Dream,Themes: The Decline o

7、f the American Dream in the 1920s The Hollowness of the Upper Class,2020/8/24,03,The Great Gatsby,The Great Gatsby,Major Characters,Nick Carraway - The narrator of the novel;moves from the midwest to New York to learn the bond business. Jay Gatsby - Lives next to Nick in a mansion; Daisy Buchanan -

8、Shallow girl who is the embodiment od Gatsbys dreams;she was going to marry Gatsby but he went off to war. Tom Buchanan - Husband of Daisy; a cruel man who lives life irresponsibly. Jordan Baker - A cynical and conceited woman who cheats in golf; want Nick go out with her. Myrtle wilson - Tom has an

9、 affair with this married woman. George Wilson - Myrtles husband,2020/8/24,03,The Great Gatsby,The Great Gatsby,The plot of the novel,Gatsby is a poor youth from the Midwest.He falls in love with Daisy,a girl from wealthy family.As a poor lad ,Gatsby is too poor to marry her,so Daisy is marryed to a

10、 rich young man named Tom.Determained to win Daisy back,Gatsby earns enough money to buy a magnificent mansion.There he hosts dazzling parties every weekend in the hope of attracting the Daisys relative and he helps Gatsby to make an appointment.By chance his next-door neighbor,Nick,is Daisys relati

11、ve and he helps Gatsby to make an appointment.They finally come and Gatsby meets Daisy again.But he finds Daisy is no longer the ideal love of his dream.A sense of loss and disillusionment come over him.Daisy and Tom do not love each other.In fact,Tom has a mistress by name of Myrtle Wilson,who is t

12、he wife of the owner of a garage.,2020/8/24,03,The Great Gatsby,The Great Gatsby,Jay Gatsby,Daisy,Tom,Nick,The Wilsons,2020/8/24,03,The Great Gatsby,The Great Gatsby,Nick Carraway,Nick is suited to narrating The Great Gatsby because of his Temperament.He is tolerant, open-minded,quiet,and a good lis

13、tener.As a result, others tend to talk to him and tell him their secrets. As a result of his relationship to these two characters,Nick is the perfect choice to narrte the novel,which functions as a personal memoir of his experiences with Gatsby in the summer of 1922.,2020/8/24,03,The Great Gatsby,Th

14、e Great Gatsby,Symbols,Color Symbolism,白色冷漠、空虛 白色在美國文學中有著特別的含義：它既可以象征純潔也可以象征冷漠；即可以象征高貴也可以象征空虛、它既可以使善良顯得更純真但也可以使貪欲更顯卑污。 小說中白色無疑是屬于黛西的：她出場時穿著一身白色衣裙，顯得高貴，神秘，潔白，美麗。正是這種貌似的純潔、美麗童貞、無邪深深吸引著蓋茨比，在他內(nèi)心深處烙下了不可磨滅的印象。使她成為蓋茨比迷戀一生，卻又無法企及的夢想。黛西如同一個住在白色宮殿的宮殿的公主。在純真的外表下有著白色所象征的空虛與冷漠?！拔覀冊谧鍪裁茨?？別人都是怎么度過這一天的？”黛西自己的話將她的空虛無

15、聊表露無遺。,2020/8/24,03,The Great Gatsby,The Great Gatsby,Color Symbolism,黃色金錢、衰亡 黃色是權(quán)利、財富和地位的象征：蓋茨比的華麗而貴重的汽車是淺黃色的；與黛西見面時領(lǐng)帶是金黃色的；周末宴會上，轎車，食物，酒吧等都是黃色的，所有這些黃色象征著一種喧囂，金錢至上的氛圍。但這種金錢、權(quán)勢、富貴的象征在小說中總是與死亡相聯(lián)系。黛西在慌亂中撞死湯姆情人時開的車正是蓋茨比那輛黃色定制轎車。蓋茨比被殺跌入游泳池的剎那，菲茲杰拉德容他如掉進黃色的叢林中?；蛟S通過這種聯(lián)系，作者想告訴讀者有時金錢正是引領(lǐng)我們走向死亡的罪惡之源,2020/8/2

16、4,03,The Great Gatsby,The Great Gatsby,Color Symbolism,紅色自私 既然白色象征著黛西的個性，那么紅色無疑能更完美的展示湯姆自私、傲慢、野蠻、殘酷的個性。菲茲杰拉德在小說中這樣描寫到：他總是野蠻地推開擋在他前面的每個人，一頭紅色魯莽公牛的傾向躍然紙上。,2020/8/24,03,The Great Gatsby,The Great Gatsby,Color Symbolism,綠色希望 習慣上人們總是把綠色與青春、活力、春天、希望相聯(lián)系。然而在這部小說中，菲茲杰拉德賦予綠色以全新的象征意義。長島碼頭黛西那盞綠燈無疑是書中的一個主要意向。蓋子比

17、的信念就是那盞綠燈，是他終極一生的夢想，蓋茨比常常在晚上孤獨的望著它，伸開雙手想去擁抱它.但是這個過程中蓋茨比忽略了至關(guān)重要的一點，企圖用財富和地位挽回愛情的做法本身就與愛情的真諦相違背。金錢換回的女人身上得到的只有虛情假意。正如小說末尾，尼克又想起那盞綠燈，似乎盡在眼前，實際上卻可望而不可及。,2020/8/24,03,The Great Gatsby,The Great Gatsby,Color Symbolism,象征精神廢墟的和迷茫的“灰谷” 體現(xiàn)在喬治威爾遜這個小人物上的藍色：威爾遜初次登場，作者說他是個“淺黃色頭發(fā)，無精打采，貧血，其貌不揚”還特意提到了有一雙淺藍色眼鏡。威爾遜在故

18、事中始終是一個窩窩囊囊、沒本事的男人。作者匠心獨運，巧妙地利用色彩刻畫了人物。,2020/8/24,Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world havent had the advantages that youve had.“每逢你想要批評任何人的時候，”他對我說，“你就記住，這個世界上所有的人，并不是個個都有過你擁有的那些優(yōu)越條件。”,NoGatsby turned out all right at the end.It is w

19、hat preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and shortwinded elations of men. 不蓋茨比本人到頭來倒是無可厚非的、使我對人們短暫的悲哀和片刻的歡欣暫時喪失興趣的，卻是那些吞噬蓋茨比心靈的東西，是在他的幻夢消逝后跟蹤而來的惡濁的灰塵。,The only completely stationary object in the room was a

20、n enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. 屋子里唯一完全靜止的東西是一張龐大的長沙發(fā)椅，上面有兩個年輕的女人，活像浮在一個停泊在地面的大氣球上。,2020/8/24,Im glad its a girl. And I hope shell be a fool thats the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.“我很高興是個女孩。而且我希望她將來是個傻瓜這就

21、是女孩子在這種世界上最好的出路，當一個美麗的小傻瓜。,He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away that might have been the end of a d

22、ock. 他朝著幽暗的海水把兩只胳膊伸了出去，那樣子真古怪，并且盡管我離他很遠，我可以發(fā)誓他正在發(fā)抖。我也情不自禁地朝海上望去什么都看不出來，除了一盞綠燈，又小又遠，也許是一座碼頭的盡頭。,I waited, and sure enough, in a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face, as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belong

23、ed. 我等著，果然過了一會兒她看著我時，她那可愛的臉上就確實露出了假笑，仿佛她已經(jīng)表明了她是她和湯姆所屬于的一個上流社會的秘密團體中的一分子。,2020/8/24,A cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, over-looking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran towards the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sundials and brick walks and burning gardens

24、the front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon.一座鮮明悅目，紅白二色的喬治王殖民時代式的大廈，面臨著海灣。草坪從海灘起步，直奔大門，足足有四分之一英甲，一路跨過日文、磚徑和火紅的花園最后跑到房子跟前房子正面有一溜法國式的落地長窗，此刻在夕照中金光閃閃，迎著午后的暖風敞開著。,This is a valley of ashes a fantastic farm where ashes grow l

25、ike wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of ash-grey men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. 這是一個灰燼的山谷一個離奇古怪的農(nóng)場，在這里灰燼像麥子一樣生長，長成小山小丘和奇形怪狀的園子。在這里灰燼堆成房屋、

26、煙囪和炊煙的形式，最后，經(jīng)過超絕的努力，堆成一個個灰蒙蒙的人，隱隱約約地在走動，而且已經(jīng)在塵土飛揚的空氣中化為灰燼了。,2020/8/24,Mrs Wilson had changed her costume some time before, and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream-coloured chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room. With the influence of the dress her

27、 personality had also undergone a change. The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur. Her laughter, he gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment, and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she s

28、eemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air.威爾遜太太不知什么時候又換了一套衣服，現(xiàn)在穿的是一件精致的奶油色雪紡綢的連衣裙，是下午做客穿的那種，她在屋子里轉(zhuǎn)來轉(zhuǎn)去的時候，衣裙就不斷地沙沙作響。由于衣服的影響，她的個性也跟著起了變化。早先在車行里那么顯著的活力變成了目空一切的傲慢。她的笑聲、她的姿勢、她的言談，每一刻都變得越來越矯揉造作，同時隨著她逐漸膨脹，她周圍的屋子就顯得越來越小，后來，她好像在煙霧彌漫的空氣中坐在一個吱吱喳喳的木軸上不停地轉(zhuǎn)動。,Wilson?.He is so dumb he

29、 doesnt know hes alive. “威爾遜？他蠢得要命，連自己活著都不知道。”,2020/8/24,Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.保留判斷是表示懷有無限的希望。,A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. 基本的道德觀念是在人出世的時候就分配不均的。,Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it. 你們是否老在等一年中最

30、長的一天，到頭來偏偏還是會錯過？,There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more. 他那副專心致志的勁頭看上去有點可憐，似乎他那種自負的態(tài)度，雖然比往日還突出，但對他來說已經(jīng)很不夠了。,2020/8/24,人間天堂（This Side of Paradise,1920）,第一部長篇小說（劃時代作品） 小說以作者自己求學和海外生活為原型，描述主人公阿莫瑞布萊恩從預備學校到大學，再經(jīng)歷第一次世

31、界大戰(zhàn)的經(jīng)歷，再現(xiàn)“迷惘一代”精神面貌，主人公是多愁善感、滿腦子幻想的年輕人，一心想“飛黃騰達”，娶漂亮姑娘做妻子?？梢蚣彝デ闆r欠佳，漂亮姑娘不愿嫁他。他由此“厭惡這個社會制度”，“盼望來一場社會革命，把我翻到社會的頂峰?！?2020/8/24,Time,A,Name,B,Literature,C,Jazz Age（1919-1929）,2020/8/24,Jazz Age (1919-1929),The Jazz Age is the nickname in America of the decade of the 1920s,beginning from 1919 to the Crash at the end of 1929. These were the ten tears when the First World War was just over,whe