1、菲茨杰拉德与盖茨比的相似之处Contents Abstract .1Introduction.2I. Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby. 2II. The Resemblances Between Fitzgerald and Gatsby.3A.The Similar Family Background.4B.Their Pursuit for Material Wealth.5 C.The Same Attitude to Love.6 D.The Same Tragic Ending.7III. The American Dream of Gatsby an
2、d Fitzgerald.8 IV. Inevitability of Their Tragedy.10Conclusion.11 Notes.13Bibliography.14Acknowledgements.15Abstract: Fitzgerald, one of the most outstanding novelists in the 20th century in the United States, is known as the poet laureate of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby is one of his masterpieces
3、. In the book he perfectly added his own life experiences to the novel plot. He described the hero Gatsby as his self-portrayal in the real life, and delineated the social life of this period in the USA successfully. He reproduced the disillusion of the American dream, and sang a mournful song for i
4、t. To some extent, this book could be a reflection of Fitzgeralds real life. The thesis attempts to analyze the resemblances between Fitzgerald and Gatsby from their life experience, love and marriage, and their tragic endings to draw a conclusion that their tragedy is inevitable.Key Words: Fitzgera
5、ld; The Great Gatsby; resemblances; American dream摘要：菲茨杰拉德是美国20世纪杰出的小说家，被誉为美国爵士乐时代的桂冠诗人。了不起的盖茨比是他的经典之作。他将自我生活经历完美地融入到小说故事情节中，把主人公盖茨比视为现实生活中的自画像加以描绘，成功地描摹了美国20世纪20年代这一特殊时期的社会生活，真实地再现了美国梦的幻灭，并为它唱了一曲无尽的哀歌。这部作品在某种程度上可以说是菲茨杰拉德现实生活的真实写照。本文探讨了盖茨比及菲茨杰拉德的生活经历，爱情婚姻观及其对美国梦的追求，分析了了不起的盖茨比中盖茨比和作者菲茨杰拉德的相似之处，并指出他们悲
6、剧命运的必然性。关键词：菲茨杰拉德；了不起的盖茨比；相似；美国梦The Resemblance Between Fitzgerald and His Great Gatsby IntroductionThe Great Gatsby was a masterpiece among Fitzgeralds works. It was not only a work with a strong autobiographical feature, but also a masterwork which described dream and hope vividly in the history o
7、f world literature. First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby met with excellent reviews, with T.S.Eliot being among the first to comment on the book, calling it the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James. Almost every American writer has touched on the theme of American dream,
8、 but as far as the breadth and depth, no one is equal to F. S. Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is the model of American dream in the history of American literature. In the novel, Fitzgerald regarded Gatsby as a projection of his self-image, and he adorned and polished it carefully, trying to make the h
9、eros image and his own unity perfectly, and played a dirge of the disillusionment of American dream. Once, a researcher pointed out, “Fitzgeralds social role and the image in his novel had been completely merged together.”1 It seems to the reader that Mr. Fitzgerald is a Gatsby in the real world.Due
10、 to its good fame in the whole world, many writers and authors have studied the Great Gatsby from different perspectives. Some of them focus on the female characters in this novel and analyze the personalities of these women characters in detail. Others pay much attention to the American dream, givi
11、ng The American Dream in The Great Gatsby, a comprehensive explanation of American dream, and presenting the development and withering of American Dream of Gatsby and the other people. This thesis intends to analyze the similarities between Fitzgerald and Great Gatsby, and then present the inevitabi
12、lity of their tragedy. This paper is divided into four parts. In the first part, it simply gives brief introduction to Fitzgerald and the Great Gatsby; and in the second part, the resemblances between Fitzgerald and Gatsby will be stated; in the third chapter will present their American dream. In th
13、e last part, it will mention the inevitability of their tragedy. I. Fitzgerald and The Great GatsbyFitzgerald, a famous American writer, was one of the most important representatives of jazz age. He made good for deficiency by virtue of his literary talent and thus formed his unique writing style am
14、ong the novelists in modern American. In 1920,Fitzgerald published the novel The Side of Paradise, which made him recognized by great critics and was famous in American literature. In 1925 The Great Gatsbys publication established his place in the history of modern American literature. He became a s
15、pokesman of the “jazz age” in the 20s and one of the representative writers of the “lost generation”. F. Scott Fitzgerald was best known for his novels and short stories which chronicled the excesses of Americas Jazz Age during the 1920s. He was born in St. Paul, where his family was considered soci
16、ally prominent and relatively poor. Fitzgerald was both a victim and a keen onlooker of the extravagant gaudy of the Jazz Age. His fictional world in which he showed a particular interest in the upper class was the best embodiment of the spirit of the American society. The Great Gatsby was a materia
17、l success and established his reputation as one of the promising novelists in the circles of literature. It foresaw the doom and failure of the post-war boom years or the “roaring twenties” in the midst of which he lived. The story was a picture of the prohibition era and a masterpiece related with
18、irony and pathos to legendry of the “American dream”.In the book, Gatsby was a son of farmers. He was ordinary but hardworking. When he was in the army, he met and loved a rich and beautiful girl, whose name was Daisy. After the outbreak of World War I, Gatsby had to serve on the front, while Daisy
19、married Tom because of her vanity, superficial desire for money. Some years later, Gatsby still loved Daisy and he tried to win back his sweet heart by the means of money. He did many things to remind her of their past loving affairs, so that they could be together again. One day, Daisy drove a car
20、and killed her husbands lover by accident. Later, she and her husband planted this murder case on poor Gatsby, indirectly letting him die under the gun. To the readers anger, the vicious couple continued to enjoy their rich and comfortable life, completely forgetting Gatsby. The colorful dreams Gats
21、by made every effort to create, was swallowed up by the cruel and messy world, and all of this was just like a piece of dirge circling around in the sky of the Jazz Age. II. The Resemblances Between Fitzgerald and GatsbyOn September 24th, 1896, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in st. Paul, Minn
22、esota. He was named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star-Spangled Banner. Fitzgerald was raised and grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. Intelligent child as he was, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. In spite of being an ordinary student
23、 there, he was admitted to Princeton in 1913. It was the academic troubles that plagued him throughout his time at college, so he never graduated. Instead, he was enlisted in the army in 1917, as World War I was closed to be terminated.Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant in the army, and he was st
24、ationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama. There he got acquaintance and fell in love with a wild seventeen-year-old beautiful girl whose name was Zelda Sayre. The later finally agreed to marry him, but her overwhelming desires for wealth, fun, and leisure led her postpone their wedding until
25、 he could make a fortune. In 1920, with the publication of The Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald became a sensation in the literary world, earning a hot fame and enough money to convince Zelda to marry him. After they got married, Zelda suffered a nervous breakdown and Fitzgerald battled alcoholism, whic
26、h hampered his writing. He published Tender Is the Night in 1934, and sold short stories to The Saturday Evening Post to support his lavish lifestyle. In 1937, he left for Hollywood to write screenplays, and in 1940, while working on his novel The Love of the Last Tycoon, died of a heart attack at t
27、he age of forty-four. Many of these events happened in Fitzgeralds early life were re-existed in his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, which was published in 1925. Like Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby was a sensitive young man who idolized wealth and luxury and who fell in love with a beautiful young woma
28、n while stationed at a military camp in the South. Having become a celebrity, Fitzgerald fell into a wild, reckless life-style of parties and decadence, while desperately trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money. Similarly, Gatsby amassed a great deal of wealth at a relatively young age, and devoted himself to acquiring possessions and throwing parties that he believed will enable him to win Daisys love. A. The Similar Family Background Jay Gatsby, whose former
