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An Analysis of Disillusionment of American Dream in The Great Gatsby
An Analysis of Disillusionment of American Dream in
The Great Gatsby
Wu Benhu
Abstract:F. Scott Fitzgerald, is widely considered as the literary spokesman of the “American Dream”. His novels include many aspects of his unique experiences in that period of time. It is not easy to distinguish between his novel and real life, which has been involved in his body and spirit in it. Especially in his masterpiece, the great Gatsby, which was published in 1925. In the novel, the hero reveals the typical examples of those who aspire to pursue the American dream, but at the end of their own sacrifice. Although he dreams of material wealth and love through his courage and hard work, all the factors from the outside world and his dream of indelible leads to its disillusionment. The characteristics of the development and heroes of the story, Fitzgerald elaborated the disillusionment of American dream vivid picture. Key words:American dream; disillusionment; reason
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An Analysis of Disillusionment of American Dream in The Great Gatsby
在英语教学中力求学习与研究的相互促进
吴本虎
摘要: 著名作家菲兹杰拉德被誉为“美国梦的代言人”，每次当我们阅读他的小说，都会使人产生一种错觉，难以区分现实与小说情节，小说的内容是他真实生活的写照，现实与小说完全融为一体。在《了不起的盖茨比》中，主人公盖茨为美国梦不懈奋斗，甚至不惜以牺牲自己为代价，始终渴望通过自己坚定的信念获得自己想要的物质和爱情生活，但这只是一场梦，脱离了现实的一场梦境，最终是无法实现的，文章中以时间的发展为主线，对不同人物的性格进行分析，最终阐述了这一梦想破灭的多种原因。 关键词：美国梦；破灭；原因
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An Analysis of Disillusionment of American Dream in The Great Gatsby
Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 1.1The Life Expericence of Fitzgerald ................................................................... 1 1.1.1 Fitzgerald’s Background .................................................................................... 1 1.1.2 Fitzgerald’s Marriage ........................................................................................ 2 2. American Dream and its Disillusionment .................................................................. 2 2.1 The American Dream ........................................................................................... 2 2.1.1 The Definition of American Dream ................................................................... 2 2.1.2 The Essence of American Dream ...................................................................... 3 2.2.2 Nick Carraway’s American Dream .................................................................... 4 2.2.3 Tom, Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker’s American Dream ........................... 5 3 The Cause of Disillusionment of American Dream .................................................... 5 3.1 The Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties ............................................................... 5 3.2 Social Environment and People factors ................................................................ 6 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................... 7 Works Cited.................................................................................................................... 7
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An Analysis of Disillusionment of American Dream in The Great Gatsby
An Analysis of Disillusionment of American Dream in The
Great Gatsby
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies 2001 XXX
Tutor: Professor YYY
Introduction
Fitzgerald was born in a non-wealthy family, so he wanted to make a lot of money and become rich in enjoying a high quality of life. The rhythm of his life is relaxed because his life is poisoned by madness and self-destructive alcoholism. After many years of emotional and physical breakdown, he tried to write a series of Hollywood production stories, exposing his shame to repair his life. He became one of the greatest writers of American literature, and he wrote many works in his life, showing the real life of the time. He is a spokesman for the jazz era.
The great gatsby \"is considered to be his masterpiece. Was originally published in April 10, 1925, the story is in the north shore of long island and summer of the city in 1922. The novel tells the story of Gatesby, an idealist who tries to recapture the lost love, but to no avail, was eventually he rich environment. The story involves a failure of the American dream, chrysanthemum and beautiful woman, belongs to a corrupt society. \"The great Gatsby evokes a charming, wild, in a bad mood, seems to never come again. This is about lost ideal, fully embodies the failure of a young man (Gatsby) personal tragedy, his dream of\" shameless \"is\" reality \"fragment (Fitzgerald, 8).
Gatsby burst failure to realize his ideal, he's a symbol of the American dream. In addition, the gage of the power of a dream, on behalf of a country, he needs to find his motto of commitment. The failure to a great extent the \"American dream\" in the very great degree of amplification.
1.The Introduction of F.Scott.Fitzgerald 1.1The Life Expericence of Fitzgerald
Francis Scott key Fitzgerald is a the most outstanding American writer in 20 s, the Great Gatsby is his best work. 1.1.1 Fitzgerald’s Background
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Sao Paulo middle-class family in 1896. In
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An Analysis of Disillusionment of American Dream in The Great Gatsby
Princeton university students career failed, he was in the training camp when the second lieutenant, he met a beautiful girl, became his wife. He took a Zelda Sayre, and because of his literary career began with a popular 1920. In the 20 s, when the money seems to be rich and postwar moral encourage reckless pursuit of happiness, his trip in Europe and New York Serdar, present a fascinating life, he in his novel the most popular magazine of the writing style. He is a jazz age, the personal and literary set an example for a generation. He pace of life is easy, because his life is a crazy day and his own self-destructive alcohol poisoning. While he was in the world under the influence of the great depression of the 1930 s, he lost his 10 years of victory, in the autumn, the favour of him as a writer. 1.1.2 Fitzgerald’s Marriage
This is absolutely hard teenagers and marriage life, Fitzgerald through difficulties and setbacks of life. From the author's life so we should find some thinking about the story.
Fitzgerald and zelda relationship is so dramatic, even if he once said, \"sometimes I don't know zelda, I was real, or are we the characters in the novel\" (Fitzgerald, 1).
In order to help pay for their lavish lifestyle. But when misfortune happens to 30, as zelda continue to suffer from mental illness. This is the prosperity of his marriage and his life, to make money to support her, which greatly influenced his writing. 1.2 Literary Works of Fitzgerald
The roaring twenties was a period of literary creation, several works of famous writers in this period. Such as Hemingway, erich, mariano, remarque, f. Scott Fitzgerald, etc. During this period reflects the people's experience and attitude of literature. We can from the following example: quiet on the western front of terror of the first world war the remarque, erich Mali, and deeply the German civilian life feeling, back from in front of many people.
This day the paradise of f. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the first world war, the sun and the youth of the moral life is increased by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920 s, a group of foreign people in the United States in Europe. 2. American Dream and its Disillusionment 2.1 The American Dream
2.1.1 The Definition of American Dream
The concept of the American dream is different, for different people, their understanding of the American dream and the pursuit of the American dream also each are not identical. The definition of the so-called American dream can distinguish
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An Analysis of Disillusionment of American Dream in The Great Gatsby
with narrow sense and narrow sense.Which means that all the people in the United States, if you work hard。
In this term, the American dream is the first in his book \"American\" 1931, James Traus Adams wrote. He said: \"the American dream is a dream place, life should be better, European society fully explained that many of us are tired, don't believe it. Every men and women can achieve their maximum body instinct, can be achieved, and recognition from others, no matter how they were born or occasionally positioning.
2.1.2 The Essence of American Dream
American dreamnamely through hard work and struggle, can obtain a better life. The American dream has a few elements: the United States to provide equal opportunity for everyone; Their talent and hard work is build on the foundation of success, rather than the background extraction; Each life is equal to; Everyone has his own right to success.
In short, the main content of American culture is to emphasize individual value, optimistic, fighting for democracy and freedom, promote deportation and competition and the need of reality and reality. Everyone has a common truth that everyone has an American dream, the desire to achieve it, everyone has an American dream, this is a good opportunity to make my dream come true.
2.2 Disillusionment of American Dream Reflected in the Novel 2.2.1 Gatsby’s American Dream
Gage than trying to realize their American dream, let him at the beginning of the new initiatives already know the love of Daisy Buchanan. He made a Daisy asked him to do everything. No one can do it for a reason. In order to win Daisy, gatsby dares to alcohol illegal trading, to earn wealth, because he knew he must provide a better life for Daisy, if he wants to win Daisy rich. Through his efforts, he really got a lot of money, although it is from illegal business.
Gatsby is his strong will, love and realize the goal of life is the great success of a huge wealth; He became the name of the society, deputy. Everyone is glad to come to his party, everyone is envious of his property, and everyone wants to be his friend, even Daisy has noticed him, and fell in love with him again. When he lost his own life to protect Daisy, gage ratio is also great.
The metamorphosis of his American dream, however, Daisy and her husband go to another city, but the gage than being shot, his huge improvement, no features. In other words, in the gates than the end of the American dream, is to win Daisy, is a
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complete failure. \"(Yang Huiqun, 3)
In addition, when the gage is dead, there is no funeral for him, but hundreds of people to eat his place. This is a sad commentary on the human nature, when a person died, he is lonely, absolutely alone. The most sad thing is, Daisy, don't feel sorry or sad gates than death, her husband Tom travel. What gatsby. His life with his death, including his wealth and love. On the analysis of the \"American dream\" gage than will come to a conclusion, whether it is destroyed, and than the \"American dream\" is to make as much money, even through various illegal means, then he can achieve his ultimate goal of economic strength to win Daisy's love.
Gatsby's life in money and position, so he can reach a certain position in life, then he can win Daisy back. This is encouraged him to move to west egg, and with any necessary way to make money, everything held a lavish parties every weekend, Daisy asked him to do so. There is a place in life, he is eager to and will do all that you need in order to achieve the ultimate goal of it, his American dream is Daisy's love. If the gage than want to fall in love with Daisy, this is doomed to failure, always live together with her.
2.2.2 Nick Carraway’s American Dream
Nick Callaway is a representative of the traditional ethics in the United states. He's from the Midwest, trying to make money in Long Island. Because he was also attracted by the beauty, wealth, and complexity of the \"wasteland\he was, in any case, another dream seeker. However, as a witness to Gatsby's tragedy, he realized what had happened to the American dream. Because the traditional moral behavior rooted in him, he followed his father's tolerance advice, he never lost. Finally, he got the basic emptiness of the American dream, and realized Tom and Daisy's corruption, brutality and weak penetration. Nick is not quick to judge, so it is possible to get \"a lot of curious nature\" of Gatsby's world mainly in the three group of people, Nick contact them. So Nick's function in this book can never be ignored. He was there to give the reader an understanding of the role of the book from an objective point of view, and then a better understanding of Gatsby's idealized love and social reality. Nick and Gatsby appeared in the novel as a moral symbol: as a spiritual waste or waste of the entity, as a moral and spiritual growth of the hope of the spirit of Gatsby.
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2.2.3 Tom, Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker’s American Dream
In this book, Compared with the gage than their natural wealth and status, but has no purpose. Daisy particularly illustrates this: \"we have to do this afternoon?\" Daisy asked. \"the next day, the next 30 years?\" (Fitzgerald, 1).
Daisy Buchanan, it is a dream, he wasted a rational dream. As don't expect the representative of the women who received a good education, work and development of the parasite. However, Daisy is a physical attraction, romantic and sentimental, but feel cold, devastating effect of her man. Her charm is a kind of attitude to life, not a quality of life.
Daisy's husband, Tom Buchanan is representative of the rulers and the representatives of the American idealistic moral wasteland. He told us all the great attitude, moral idealism is poor, is the origin of the weak, not force, he didn't consider the concept of any moral or personal loyalty, only his own physical drives and their own requirements.
Tom and Daisy Buchanan, around is not worried about any potential crisis, because they have no moral responsibility. No matter what happens, they will use to cover their own social status, refund my money, or let others to clean up their own mess.
In any case, Jordan Beck is not only a Daisy or Tom Buchanan, but moral desert animals. Dressed up like a \"cute\" girl \"white\always seems to be \"cool\" and transcendent, Jordan Beck in his own way an opportunist. As a 23-year-old woman golf champion, in the process of take part in the summer, Nick. She looks like \"incredible\" dishonest, but Nick found that Jordan is arrogant and careless, he found himself attracted her. Jordan, on the other hand, there are \"love\" Nick, because she felt Nick heart honesty and morality are determined, and realized that only when a Nick like this kind of people stay together, she can get rid of the chaos, to continue to their way.
3 The Cause of Disillusionment of American Dream 3.1 The Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties
The spirit of the roaring '20 s is by modernity and discontinuity of general feeling, break the traditional. Everything seems to be feasible through modern technology. New technologies, especially cars, film and radio, increased the most of the population. Formal decorative lace in the daily life of the actual and architecture of beneficial. At the same time, jazz dance has become more and more popular in the ghost of the first world war. Therefore, this period is usually referred to as the jazz age.
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An Analysis of Disillusionment of American Dream in The Great Gatsby
Jazz age, Malcolm Callie (Malcolm Cowley) said, \"not a flash legend, reckless and legend, such a talented person's age, like wild oats as radio.\" This is an \"American teenagers pain before the start of the story.\" Fitzgerald was \"more than 20 years old angel\" and his work a legend.
3.2 Social Environment and People factors
For gage than the collapse of the American dream, another reason may be the human factor. Gatsby is obsessed with love Daisy, this is really impressive, but he chose to pay for their love in the wrong object, Daisy is a secular, money worship, hedonism,. She can't hand in hand with gage than. She won't pay a high price for his ideal, to make great sacrifices. No true love in her life, but she can't live without money.
Gatsby's failure, to a certain extent, shows the collapse of the American dream, he is the embodiment of the American spirit of struggle, his failure is the decline of the American spirit of the declaration. His tragedy, because he has established the unreal dream more than reality, he is eager for success, but when he realized the dream of money, he was in the spirit of the crisis. He likes to escape rather than face bravely. Competition between Tom and gage than love is not only a battle between rival, but there are also two battle between different social class representative. So his failure is inevitable. Former lover, Nick and Jordan are the audience of the whole story, they witnessed the dirty history of evil. The height of the material prosperity brought a desolate and distorted soul, hidden in the carnival fun. The society as a whole is suffering from this kind of mental illness - there is no way out of loss and pain. Therefore, the collapse of the American dream has become a necessity.
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Conclusion
In gathering information and completing this article, we can better understand, and gage than the development of love and dreams. Now, we not only can feel the same gates than complex and pessimistic life, also saw the inhuman and cruel society.
Through the novel, Fitzgerald shows the collapse of the disillusionment and people's dreams, both concepts, what kind of money, social status, or happiness. However, the most catastrophic collapse of the American dream itself. Here, the hero of the book, including Tom, Nick and Daisy gatsby, Jordan as metaphors of Fitzgerald, the paradox of the American dream: when the materialism and spiritual value of ascension, it only by its disciples confused. He also pointed out that because real life cannot be compared with the ideal of idealism, parallel the ideal to reality is usually too perfect. The collapse of the American dream is inevitable.
However, the novel is not only a criticism of the American dream money corruption. It is also a kind of moral values, requirements, and abandon materialism return to tradition. In addition, the narrator Nick Akrawi (Nick Carraway) good shelter for the degradation of the American dream. He is the voice of the morality and human nature of the novel, and the only one that records and measures of gage than unrealistic gap between dream and reality, which is based on the loss.
In short, the new \"great gage than\" Fitzgerald's masterpiece. From it, we can get some information about the author himself hidden information. Fitzgerald said that sometimes he doesn't know that he and his wife is true or just characters in his novels. In fact the novel ensures Fitzgerald as a serious and talented writer. In recent years, Tony Tanner says this is \"the most perfect novel.
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