Abstract

The Great Gatsby is written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is considered to be the symbol of American literature in the “Jazz Age”. Published in 1925, the novel took New York and Changdao Island of the 1920s as the background, which described a love story with a bad ending between young Gatsby and Daisy.
In the paper, readers will get a clue for the reasons that lead to the disillusionment with Gatsby’s wealth and love under the historical background and class differences in the twentieth century in the United States. This paper consists of five parts. Firstly it makes a brief introduction to the Great Gatsby and then discusses the life experience of the author F. Scott. Fitzgerald, and then studies the influence of her life experience in the novel . Then, it analyzes the panorama of wealth under the background at that time in the America society as well as reveals the emptiness of wealth and its influence on the ending of the story. Thirdly, it talks about the evaporation of love through the emotional entanglement among the main characters and deliberates its consequence that the author aims to show us. In the fourth part, it analyzes the reasons that lead to the abortion of wealth and love. Finally, the paper concludes that the wealth in the capitalist society is essentially decadent and corrupt, and the across-class love is bound to be a tragedy.

Key words: wealth; love; evaporation

摘  要

《了不起的盖茨比》一书出自美国爵士时代的文学代表菲茨杰拉德之手，该书出版于1925年，以20世纪20年代的美国纽约和长岛为背景，主要描述了一段围绕着年轻的盖茨比和黛西之间的凄美爱情故事。
论文主要通过美国当时的时代背景和阶级差异，研究导致盖茨比财富与爱情失败的原因。论文主要由五部分组成，首先简要概括小说内容，分析作者一生际遇在文中的体现。其次通过研究时代背景分析主人翁财富失败的原因并揭示其空虚性和影响。再者从主人翁之间的情感纠葛暗示出爱情的破灭，并分析出作者想借此告诫读者的意图。第四部分主要研究导致主人翁财富和爱情失败的具体原因。最终，论文得出资本主义社会里财富的虚无和腐败以及跨越阶层的爱情注定是悲剧的结论。

关键词：财富； 爱情； 破灭