从小说《夜色温柔》的人物对话描写探索男主人公迪克的精神变化_英语论文

The Analysis of Dick’s Spiritual Changes through Conversations in Tender Is the Night

摘要

小说《夜色温柔》是美国作家菲茨杰拉德继名作《了不起的盖茨比》之后的又一力作，以几个青年男女的情感纠葛为故事主线，借当时的社会生活为时代背景，展现了美国爵士乐时代的衰落和美国梦的破灭，其中的主人公迪克更是撑起小说主线的灵魂人物之一。本文将以小说的主要内容为基础，中心思想为主旨，书中的对话描写为素材，从这些对话中分析主人公迪克的精神变化过程，展现其从进入上流社会的风光得意，到后来日渐沉沦，未老先衰，与女明星罗斯玛丽的纠葛使妻子对他的依赖越来越少，终于投入他人怀抱，自己则陷入崩溃的边缘。本文将通过这些分析达到进一步揭示小说主题的目的。

关键词：爵士乐时代，对话描写，精神变化

Abstract

The novel Tender Is the Night is another masterpiece of the reputable American writer F.S.K Fitzgerald after his most popular book the Great Gatsby. It applies the love affairs of the young men and women as the mainline of the plot and is based on the background of the social life at that time to display the decadence of the Jazz Age and the collapse of the American Dream, in which the hero Dick is one of the most representative characters. The author is going to base the thesis on the main content of the novel and take the theme of it as the main idea, the conversations as the resource, from which the author analyzes the spiritual change of hero Dick, for example, from the complacency after entering the upper class to the later depression and senescence. He was even at the edge of breakdown after his wife’s departure due to his entanglement with actress Rosemary. The thesis is aimed at further revealing the theme of the novel through the analysis mentioned above. 

Key words: the Jazz Age, conversation, spiritual changes

Contents

AcknowledgementsⅠ

摘要Ⅱ

AbstractⅢ

1  Introduction1

2  Brief introduction about the novel 2

3  The definition, significance and proper ways of exerting conversations in a novel 3

3.1 Definition 3

3.2 Significance  3

3.3 Proper ways to use conversations in a narrative text4

4  The study on the characteristics of the Jazz Age and its relevance to the novel 6

4.1 The reason it is called “The Jazz Age” and its characteristics  6

4.2 The jazz music of the Jazz Age and its implication of it in the novel  7

4.3 The relation between the Jazz Age and the novel Tender Is the Night 7

5  The analysis on the conversations relevant to the theme of the thesis 9

5.1 General comments on the writing of the conversations in the novel  9

5.2Analysis on hero Dick’s spiritual changes reflected by the conversations at four stages  9

5.2.1Dick’s spiritual condition-Stage 1   9

5.2.2Dick’s spiritual condition-Stage 2   11

5.2.3Dick’s spiritual condition-Stage 3   13

5.2.4Dick’s spiritual condition-Stage 4   14

6.  Conclusion16

Works cited 17