1、外國(guó)語學(xué)院08級(jí)4班 李 可 200805140409 李繚桓 200805140410 廖紅華 200805140411 羅雯嘉 200805140412 彭欣茹 200805150413 全淑媛 200805140414 稅 月 200805140415,The Great Gatsby,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota Entered World War One in 1917 an American author of novels and short stories one of the greatest

2、American writers of the 20th century.,regarded as the spokesman for “l(fā)ost generation of the 1920s known for his accurate description of the Jazz Age He thinks money brought only tragedy and remorse.,Major Novels This Side of Paradise這片樂土 (1920), The Great Gatsby了不起的蓋茨比 (1925) Tender Is the Night溫柔的夜

3、 (1934). The Beautiful and Damned漂亮冤家,The Great Gatsby,The Great Gatsby is first published on April 10, 1925, it is set on Long Islands North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922. It is a critique（批判） of the American Dream. It has become a standard text in high school and university

4、courses on American literature in countries around the world and is ranked second in the Modern Librarys lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.,Tom,Daisy,husband,Ex-lover,Gatsby,cousin,Nick,Neighbor,mistress,Myrtle,Wife,Wilson,College classmate,Relationship of Main Characters,Analysis of

5、Gatsby,1、 Daisy淺薄和自私的Gatsby 對(duì)于感情的忠貞vs他看待問題缺乏深度，缺乏應(yīng)有的判斷力和洞察力，“沒有認(rèn)識(shí)到上流社會(huì)極端卑劣、自私的本質(zhì)，”結(jié)果玩火自焚 她和蓋茨比也都是自私的，他們之間的“愛情”是一種相互利用的關(guān)系。,2、 Tom欲望和野心的Gatsby 擁有野心，想要霸占任何能夠勾起他欲望的東西，無論是在物質(zhì)層面還是在精神層面。 兩人命運(yùn)不同的結(jié)局揭露了資本主義社會(huì)的“游戲規(guī)則”明顯的階級(jí)對(duì)立，絕不允許有野心的下層社會(huì)的人加入到他們的“游戲”行列當(dāng)中,3、 Myrtle虛無和夢(mèng)幻的Gatsby 她和蓋茨比一樣，擁有相同的出生背景，也是一個(gè)夢(mèng)的追隨者。追求社會(huì)上層階級(jí)

6、的身份。 不管怎么說，蓋茨比想要的也都不是黛西這個(gè)人，他想要追求的只是自己心目中的金色女郎，自己五年前的金色夢(mèng)想。,4、 Wilson浪漫和執(zhí)著的Gatsby 堅(jiān)持崇尚名譽(yù)觀并真愛自己的妻子而走向了毀滅。在這道德的垃圾場(chǎng)上，他成為了浪漫和堅(jiān)持理想的犧牲品” 這正說明了像蓋茨比和威爾遜這樣的人那種有感情式理想的浪漫的人在現(xiàn)代美國(guó)這片垃圾場(chǎng)上只能是死路一條。,5、 Nick理性和聰明的Gatsby 他既不是湯姆所代表的荒原時(shí)代的精神世界的公民，也不是蓋茨比所代表的盲目崇拜黛西的脫離現(xiàn)實(shí)的夢(mèng)幻時(shí)代的同路人，他代表著美國(guó)傳統(tǒng)道德規(guī)范。 追求舊愛的手段：第一點(diǎn)就是他必須要“顯富”。第二點(diǎn)是他善于利用尼克

7、。,The analysis of the chapter 3,A. The symbolization of the color in chapter 3 . yellow orange and golden 1. (The 6th line of P219) While his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. 2. (The 11th line of P219) Every Friday five crates of orange and lemons arrived from a fr

8、uiterer. 3. (The second paragraph of P220) and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music 4. (The 12th line of P222) She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that shed take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses, who stopped at the foot of the steps. 5.(T

9、he last but seven line of P222) With Jordans slender golden arm resting in mine, we descended the steps and sauntered about the garden., Yellow is a major symbolic color in the book. It also appears the most time as an image. It represents the wealth and luxury. Scott Fitzgerald said: ”in Jazz Age,

10、money has become the means to get success. ” Yellow, the color which stands for money and blatancy perform the fate of the features of the Jazz Age.,1. (the last but one line of P218) In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. 2.

11、 (the 6th line of P221) A chauffeur in a uniform of robins-egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer.,Blue stands for calmness, melancholy（憂郁) and dreams. Fitzgerald use blue to symbolize dreams and secular factors in order to make a contr

12、ast with the yellow symbolizing the state of clamor. Actually the hole novel is a dream. It tell us the American dream in Jazz Age.,. Blue,He smiled understandinglymuch more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across fo

13、ur or five times in life. It facedor seemed to facethe whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured y

14、ou that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. Precisely at that point it vanishedand I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd. Some time before he introduced himself

15、 Id got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.,他心神領(lǐng)會(huì)的一笑還不止心領(lǐng)神會(huì)。這足極為罕見的笑容，其中寒有永久的善意的表情，這你一輩子也不過能遇見四二次。它面對(duì)或者似乎面對(duì)整個(gè)永恒的世界一剎那，然后就凝注在你身上，對(duì)你表現(xiàn)出不可抗拒的偏愛。他了解你恰恰到你本人希望被了解的程度，相信你如同你樂于相信你自己那樣，并且教你放心他對(duì)你的印象正是你最得意時(shí)希望給予別人的印象。恰好在這一刻他的笑容消失了于是我看著的不過是一個(gè)風(fēng)度翩翩的年輕漢子，三十一二歲年紀(jì)，說起話來文質(zhì)彬彬，幾乎有點(diǎn)可笑。在他作自我介紹之前不久，

16、我有一個(gè)強(qiáng)烈的印象，覺得他說話字斟句酌。,B. The way of description in the novel The order of description (the second paragraph on P224),差不多在蓋茨比先生說明自己身份的那一刻，一個(gè)男管家急急忙忙跑到他跟前報(bào)告他芝加哥有長(zhǎng)途電話找他。他微微欠身道歉，把我們大家包括在內(nèi)。, This is the first time when Nick meet Gatsby. They dont have a deep talk this time, but in Nicks description there a

17、re some lyrical sentences, which the flavour of feeling is extremely thick from his smile to personality. It gives a deep impression to the reader. But how can Nick know so many when they met each other at the first time? So the reader will naturally make predictions that these sentences is written

18、when Nick recalls the things. This narrative order of inversion and interlacing produced similar effect with the flashback” in film. The novel is endowed with strong artistic appeal by this kind of order.,Almost at the moment when Mr. Gatsby identified himself, a butler hurried toward him with the i

19、nformation that Chicago was calling him on the wire. He excused himself with a small bow that included each of us in turn.,The Similarities of The Great Gatsby and The Story of the Stone,. Themethe disillusion of the dream. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby was pursuing his American Dream，in which there m

20、ay be sweet love， lots of money，and a high position. In The Story of the Stone, which is also translated into The Dream of the Red Chamber, its dream here means love，happiness and prosperity. Both of the themes of the two novels are about the disillusion 0f the dreamwhich is just the reflection of l

21、ife,. Symbolism-The Soul of the Story In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald cleverly uses symbolism. First, there are several colors used for symbolism in the novel. Second, the author use symbolism to some imagesFor example，the image green lamp appeared three times respectively at the crucial points of the development. Third, author also uses symbolism in choosing the name of the characters. E.g. Daisy is a small wild flower with a yellow center and white petalsWe can know she is cold and ruthless,In The S