Abstract

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1986-1940), one of the most famous writers in American literature in the 1920s, is known as the spokesman and laureate of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby, his masterpiece, depicts a vivid picture of the Jazz Age. It is obvious that the women characters in The Great Gatsby are quite secondary to the males. As Fitzgerald himself said, the novel was a “man’s book” and the women are “emotionally passive”. With the development of feminist literary criticism during the last few decades, it is necessary to reread the text from a new perspective.
The thesis will briefly introduce the traditional comments on the The Great Gatsby in the literary world, including Fitzgerald’s view on women and Nick’s perspective of female characters. Then it will try to examine the applicability of feminist literary criticism to The Great Gatsby and reinterpret the three female characters from the angle of the microscopic theory of feminist literary criticism

Keywords: Fitzgerald; Feminism; Patriarchy
 
摘  要

弗朗西斯•斯各特•菲茨杰拉德（1986-1940）是20世纪美国文坛最杰出的作家之一, 其代表作《了不起的盖茨比》生动地展示了大萧条时期美国上层社会“爵士时代”的精神面貌，被誉为美国最优秀的小说之一。在《了不起的盖茨比》中人们可以很明显地感受到的女性人物都是依附于男性而存在。正如菲茨杰拉德自己指出的那样，这是“一部男人的书”，小说中的女性都是被动存在的。随着女性主义文学理论的发展，有必要从一个新的角度对作品中的女性人物进行新的解读。
本文拟列举文学界对《了不起的盖茨比》的传统评价，包括作者菲茨杰拉德的女性观以及文中尼克视角下的女性人物形象，从女性主义文学批评理论，着手分析该理论用于《了不起的盖茨比》文本分析的可能性，运用女性主义文学批评方法从狭义和微观理论的角度分别对《了不起的盖茨比》的三位女性形象重新进行解读。

关键词：菲茨杰拉德；女性主义；父权制