文档介绍：苏州大学应用技术学院
2009级学士学位论文
A Study of Color Symbolism in The Great Gatsby
《了不起的盖茨比》中颜色象征意义研究
专业:09英语
学号:0916411014
姓名:周丽莎
导师:张荣兴

Acknowledgements
The thesis would probably have never been possible without the help, support, foresight and inspiration of my supervisor, teachers and classmates, so I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of them.
My deepest gratitude goes first to my supervisor, Mr. Zhang Rongxing, who has contributed to getting the nuts and bolts of the thesis into place. His careful and microscopic scrutiny of the manuscript resulted in the elimination of many inconsistencies and in the development of the study throughout the thesis. His witty ideas and valuable advice brought me a new way of learning and different vision of the research.
What’s more, my thanks go to my parents and friends who give me support and encouragement.
Abstract
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, one of the most prominent novelists in American literary history in the 1920s, has been regarded as “the singer of the jazz age”, and “chronicler” and “poets Laureate”. He works give us an accurate picture of the social state of America in early twenties of last century. The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s finest novel, which was published in 1925, and Eliot considered it “to be the first step that America has taken since Henry James”. Finished in 1925, this novel wins lots of favorable praise. Nowadays, people keep reading it, and many films have been adopted from it.
Just as above said, The Great Gatsby is a symbolism story, in which, many color symbols are used, for example, green and green light, blue, yellow or golden and so on. This paper will analyze the novel by means of the respective symbolism meanings of these color symbols.
Key words: Francis Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby; color; symbolism.
摘要
美国著名象征主义代表作家Francis Scott Fitzgerald ,20世纪20年代美国文坛最著名的作家之一,素有爵士时代代言人,编年史家和桂冠诗人的称号。他的作品准确地反映了美国上世纪20年代的社会状况,在1925年正式发表的小说《了