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The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald
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A spokesman of the“ Jazz Age”
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Arrangement
1. Background
2. Fitzgerald
3. The Great Gatsby
Plotline
Character Analysis
Theme
Symbols
Background
1920s
. The First World War: The sense of life
being dislocated and fragmented
令 Economic boom
, Social revelution
The loss of faith
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1930s
.o The Great Depression
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The roaring 1920'y
4 The Jazz Age describes the period of the 1920s and
1930s. The 1920s began with high hopes. World War
One was over. The twenties ended with a huge drop in
stock market prices that began the Great Depression.
Fitzgerald was a representative of the years of fast
living in between
.s The nation's values had changed in this period. Many
Americans were concerned mainly with having a good
time and doing what you will. American society
enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity. People
broke the law by drinking alcohol and lived in a corrupt
society. They danced to jazz music, and women wore
short skirts
Jazz Age
s The novelist F Scott Fitzgerald coined
the term " Jazz Age" retrospectively to
refer to the decade after World War I and
before the stock market crash in 1929
during which Americans embarked upon
what he called“ the gaudiest(最华而不实
的) spree in history”
The Lost generation
s Gertrude Stein----Hemingway
.o The lost generation included the young
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nglish and American expatriates as well as
men and women caught in the war and cut
from the old value and yet unable to come to
terms with the new era when civilizations had
gone mad
.o These writers adopted unconventional style of
writing and reacted against the tendencies of
the old writers in the 1920s
MAK0÷ fhis own time,
Fitzgerald said: There
seemed no question about
what was going to happen
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