文档介绍：刘丽娟
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Brief introduction of author
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota of mixed Southern and Irish descent. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, was a salesman, a Southern gentleman, whose furniture business had failed. His greater impact to him was “even if your business has failed，we have to maintain the habit of generous style”. Mary McQuillan, his mother, was the daughter of a successful wholesale grocer, and devoted to her only son.
Analysis of character & story plot
The story deals symbolically with the failure of the American Dream. It is the story of a young man's search for his ideal of love. It also is a story of what the young man must do to win that love before he discovers that it is not worth having. The novel is always compared to Fitzgerald’s life.
Comparing
Gatsby
struggle for
money,
Daisy,
fame, but ends sadly
Ruined by lover Daisy and wealthy people aroun