文档介绍：The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
A spokesman of the “Jazz Age”
The Great Gatsby
Arrangement
Background
Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby Plotline Character Analysis Theme Symbols
Background
-------------------------1920s-------------------------
The First World War; The sense of life being dislocated and fragmented
Economic boom
Social revelution
The loss of faith
-------------------------1930s-------------------------
The Great Depression
Jazz Age& The Roaring 1920’s
The Jazz Age describes the period of the 1920s and 1920s began with high hopes. World War One was over. The twenties ended with a huge drop in stock market prices that began the Great Depression. Fitzgerald was a representative of the years of fast living in between.
The nation's values had changed in this period. Many Americans were concerned mainly with having a good time and doing what you will. American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity. People broke the law by drinking alcohol and lived in a corrupt society. They danced to jazz music, and women wore short skirts.
Jazz Age
The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the term “Jazz Age” retrospectively to refer to the decade after World WarⅠ and before the stock market crash in 1929, during which Americans embarked upon what he called “the gaudiest(最华而不实的) spree in history”.
The Lost Generation
Gertrude Stein----Hemingway
The lost generation included the young English and American expatriates as well as men and women caught in the war and cut from the old value and yet unable e to terms with the new era when civilizations had gone mad.
These writers adopted unconventional style of writing and reacted against the tendencies of the old writers in the 1920s.
Of his own time, Fitzgerald said: "There seemed no question about what was going to happen. America was going on the greatest party in its history and there was going to be plenty to tell about. " Yet if he described only the party, his writings would have been f