TheGreatGatsby.ppt

Background Information of The Great Gatsby
A Spokesman of Jaze Age F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
...the finest novel, sensitive and symbolic treatment of themes of contemporary life with irony and pathos to the legendry of the American dream.----The panion to American Literature.
最好的小说,该书敏锐地抓住了当代社会生活的主题,并以象征手法展现了“美国梦”传奇下得嘲讽与悲怆。
The first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene.----
自亨利. 詹姆斯以来美国小说迈出的第一步,因为作者在其中描绘了宏大,熙攘,轻率和寻欢,凡此种种,曾风靡一时。
Life
Born in St. Paul,Minnesota on September24,1896.
Had an expensive education in private schools, entering Princeton in 1913.
Due to illness and neglect of academic study, he left the university in 1917 without graduation.
He joined the army, meeting Zelda Sayre -the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice.
“I have fallen in love with a whirlwind,”declared the young lieutenant Fitzgerald, having met Zelda Sayre at a country club. It was in the summer of 1918 in Montgomery, Alabama.
In order to convince Zelda to marry him, he moved to New York City hoping to launch a career in advertising lucrative enough to support her.
During that time,he began to work on his first novel, This side of Paradise. Published in 1920, it was an instant ess and brought him fortune and fame. He said that when the news arrived in the mail: "I left my job. I paid my debts, bought a suit of clothes and woke in the morning to a world of promise. "
Zelda: the prototype of a series of rich and beautiful women who feature prominently in his fiction.
The young couple frequently went abroad and lived extravagantly a luxurious and flamboyant life.
To keep earning enough money, Fitzgerald wrote short stories and novels at a rapid speed.
Zelda was a natural beauty, with red-gold hair, fine features, and a graceful body. But what distinguished her from other young women was her spirit - playful, often rebel