Abstract

   As the representative of famous American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby vividly depicts American society in the early 20th century, reveals people’s spiritual disorientation and moral bankruptcy, and expresses the author’s disappointment to the disillusionment of one generation’s moral ideal. The novel also shows the disillusion of “American Dream” in the 1920s. In the American society of 1920s, the people were in total depravity. It tells us that there is no way to go from money to love, from material to spirit. The thesis attempts to explore the moral spirit and bankruptcy in The Great Gatsby to study the moral spirit at that time. In the meantime, China is now in a period of social transition, and many people are confronted with the dilemma of material abundance, spiritual emptiness and moral disorientation; therefore, the study of the thesis provides certain reference concerning how to deal with the relationship between material and spirit for them to some extent.

Key Words: The Great Gatsby; Moral Spirit; Bankruptcy;Causes;

摘要

   作为美国著名作家弗兰西斯•司各特•菲茨杰拉德的代表作，《了不起的盖茨比》生动地描写了20世纪初的美国社会，揭露了人们的精神迷茫和道德沦丧，表达了作者对一代人道德理想破灭的失望。小说也集中地暴露了二十年代美国梦的破灭；揭示在当时的美国社会，围绕着对盖茨比的刻画，小说深刻揭露了当时美国物欲社会道德的沦丧。作品表明金钱达不到爱情；从物质不能上升到精神。论文尝试对《了不起的盖茨比》中的道德观及其破灭的原因加以探讨来说明当时社会的道德观。同时，中国现在正处于社会转型时期，物质充盈、精神空虚甚至道德迷茫是很多人面临的困境，因此论文的研究在一定程度上为人们如何处理物质和精神的关系提供了一定的借鉴。

关键字：《了不起的盖茨比》；道德观；破灭；原因