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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Content:
Position and comments
American Dream
Movies of different versions
A brief summary of the story
Analysis of Main characters
Structure and art figures
Themes
Symbols
Conclusion
Position and Comments
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Considered to be Fitzgerald‘s magnum opus(代表作), 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(警世故事) regarding the American Dream.  Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and “Great American Novel”. The book is consistently ranked among the greatest works of American literature.
“The Great Gatsby is the first step that American fiction has
taken since Henry James.”
—T. S. Eliot
Movies of Different Versions
The Great Gatsby, in 1926, by Herbert Brenon  – a silent movie of a stage adaptation, starring Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, and William Powell. It is a famous example of a lost film.
The Great Gatsby, in 1949, by Elliott Nugent  – starring Alan Ladd, Betty Field, and Shelley Winters; for copyright reasons this film is not readily available.
The Great Gatsby, in 1974, by Jack Clayton – starring Sam Waterston, Mia Farrow, and Robert Redford, with a script by Francis Ford Coppola.
The Great Gatsby, in 2000, by Robert Markowitz – a made-for-TV movie starring Toby Stephens, Paul Rudd, and Mira Sorvino.
The Great Gatsby, in 2013, by Baz Luhrmann – starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, and Joel Edgerton.
American Dream
The idea of the American Dream is rooted in the United States Declaration of Independence which proclaims that “all men are created equal” and that they are “endowed by their Creato