the-great-gatsby-了不起的盖茨比英文.pptx

The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence,idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The author of The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald 
(September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels andshort stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
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Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby (his most famous), and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.
Fitzgerald's friendship with Hemingway was quite vigorous
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The wife of  F. Scott Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Sayre at about 16, in dance costume
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Themes: money and love
Attitude towards money :contradictory and complex
Double vision:knowing it well inside;seeing it ironically outside
Special experience:familiar with life style,mental state and moral standards of the rich
Critical of the rich and showing the disintegrating effects of wealth on the emotional make-up
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Major Characters
Nick Carraway –at the start of the plot, a newly arrived