论《了不起的盖茨比》中的美国梦_英语论文

On American Dream in The Great Gatsby

摘要

弗朗西斯司科特费兹杰拉德被广泛推崇为“爵士时代”的编年史家和桂冠诗人，是二十世纪美国最重要的作家之一。他不仅亲身经历了美国历史上最会纵乐，最讲究炫丽的时代的生活，而且以敏锐的眼光，审视着那个时代所发生的一切。代表作《了不起的盖茨比》蕴含了重大的社会意义，其中表现的精湛的艺术成就引起了巨大轰动。

本论文分析了主人公盖茨比的经历从而分析他的美国梦在特定的爵士时代背景下幻灭的过程以及造成他失败人生的原因。美国梦的幻灭有极深刻的历史意义，主人公的美国梦幻灭是指一个代表，其中深刻的历史社会原因也是研究的所在。通过分析我们可以看到盖茨比的天真单纯以及汤姆，黛西为嗲表的美国上层社会的冷酷无情和道德沦丧。这些都造成了盖茨比的美国梦的幻灭。本文通过对人物的分析来分析了作品的主题，将二者有机结合起来，较全面深刻地解读了作品。

关键词：了不起的盖茨比，美国梦，幻灭

Abstract

F. Scott. Fitzgerald (1896-1940), as the most famous chronicler and laureate of the Jazz Age, is one of the most representative American novelists of the 1920s. He was not only a leading participant in the typically frivolous, carefree, moneymaking life of the decade but also a detached observer of it. Owing to its extraordinary literary merits, Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby is listed among the most notable twentieth-century American novels.

The thesis discusses the roots of the disillusionment of Gatsby’s dream from the social, historical and authorial perspectives. By exploring the origins and essential nature of Gatsby’s dream, the naivety and innocence in his personality and the cruelty of the Jazz Age society epitomized by the ruthless, this paper draw a conclusion that a combination of these elements defines Gatsby’s failure and destruction in the end. Theme discussion in this paper is basically done through history and character analysis, which aims for better understanding of the connotation of the novel. 

Key words: the Great Gatsby, American Dream, Disillusionment.