了不起的盖茨比英文论文.doc

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Part One Introduction
Research Background and Significance
As "the spokesman of a crucial and revealing period in the cultural field of his country〞,(Wang Weiping, 2004:57) Fitzgerald knows the society clearlydue to his rich personal experience and creates many characters like Gatsby out of the American life. These novels describe the disillusionment of the American dream in the Jazz Age. And the reason is always that the transformations of the values of traditional morality make people not believe in any hero but pursue individual consumption and enjoyment. Fitzgerald deeply feels the spiritual emptiness and moral decadence under the superficial splendor and prosperity in that age, so he is called the spokesman of the Jazz Age. Most of his works describe the expectation, dissatisfaction and disappointment of the American young generation in the 1920s. One distinguishing feature of his works is that the close relationship between his personal experiences and works. Nearly all the characters in his novel can find the original shapes in reality sometimes even himself, especially in The Great Gatsby.
Motivation and Objective
Considering disillusion of the American dream, different people have different understandings. "In its board sense, it refers to the ideal of a nation such as democracy, equality and freedom. While in its narrow sense, it refers to the pursuit of obtaining success of life〞. (Wang Weiping, 2004:57) Essentially, the American dream is a confident desire for perfection by means of progress. But the history and reality of American have proved that "the American dream〞 is, to some extent, a kind of illusion.
The great Gatsby is one of the representative works that reflects the illusory nature of the