F.S.菲茨杰拉德论文：F.S.菲茨杰拉德了不起的盖茨比消费主义美国梦破灭

1、F.S.菲茨杰拉德论文：F.S.菲茨杰拉德 了不起的盖茨比 消费 主义美国梦破灭【中文摘要】消费是一个近几年在中国备受瞩词汇，它在文学中 同样热门。早在 20 世纪 20 年代,美国由生产型社会转变为消费型社 会,文学中也产生了“消费主义”这一概念。而“美国梦”则源自美 国二百多年的发展历程，植根美国文化、美国精神之中，是美国人奋斗 的精神动力，也是众多作家作品的主题。作为美国 20 世纪最有影响力 的作家之一 ,F.S.菲茨杰拉德(1896-1940)亲身经历并以浪漫且富有 诗意的文笔记录了消费主义在美国从兴起到成为潮流这一阶段，即被 他称之为“爵士时代”这一时期美国人追求梦想时的面貌。在他

2、一生 创作的四部长篇小说和超过一百六十篇短篇小说中，了不起的盖茨 比是流传最广、评价最高的一部。菲茨杰拉德的真实生活与他的创 作密不可分，论文从消费主义入手，旨在探讨消费主义和美国梦在这 部小说中的体现，结合消费主义的影响分析其中几位主要人物的美国 梦,探讨消费主义如何对他们的美国梦产生负面影响。论文共有五个 部分,分别为引言、主体的三章和结论。引言部分简介菲茨杰拉德生 平和他的小说了不起的盖茨比，概述了国内外对了不起的盖茨 比研究的相关文献。第一章简要介绍美国梦，以及美国梦对人们的 影响。第二章讨论小说中主要人物的美国梦，即主人公杰伊盖茨比, 黛西布坎南，故事叙述者尼克卡罗威以及梅特尔威尔逊

3、的美国 梦。第三章详细阐述消费文化对美国梦的影响。首先从消费主义概念入手,然后剖析消费主义在小说中的体现，接着探讨消费主义对人们 的负面影响，最后讨论消费主义是小说人物美国梦的破灭的主要因 素。结论部分回顾 20 世纪 20 年代社会转型期国民观念急剧转变的大 环境下,消费主义对美国人的影响.菲茨杰拉德以他独具的感悟力和 表达力将亲身经历和感悟放入其作品当中。研究他的小说了不起的盖茨比，读者能够真切体会到当时社会生活面貌。通过分析大环境 和小说人物的美国梦，论文作者得出在文明发展使得更高水准的物质 生活成为可能的同时，永无止境的消费欲望不可能对美好的美国梦产 生积极影响。当我们看到曾经发生在大

4、洋彼岸这些喧闹的往事时，对于今天正在由温饱向小康过渡，追求舒适精致甚至豪华生活的中国人 来说,也有着深刻的启示及指导意义。【英文摘要】 Muchattention has been paid to consumption inChina in recent years, and it is hot in literature as well. Back in the 1920s,the United States had been transformed from a producer society to a consumer society. Mean while con sumer cu

5、lture was also born. Yet theAmerica n Dream was orig in ated from the country s more thantwo-hundred-year development history. It has been deeply rooted into theAmerican culture and spirit and has always bee n the impetus for theAmerica ns and the theme of many writers works.F. S. Fitzgerald, one of

6、the most in flue ntial writers of the 20th cen tury, had experieneed theperiod, the Jazz Age as he called it, duringwhich he saw the rise and developme nt of the con sumer culture in theUnited States and recorded romantically and poetically American people s looks as they pursue their dreams. In Fit

7、zgerald s four novels andmore than one hundred sixty short stories, The Great Gatsby is the mostpopular and highest appreciated on e.Fitzgerald s writi ng is inseparable from his real life. This thesis tries to analyze how consumerismand the America n Dream are reflected in The Great Gatsby. From th

8、eperspective of con sumerism, the thesis explores the mai n characters American Dream, and how the consumerism exerts n egative in flue neeon their America n Dream.The thesis con sists of five parts:Introduction,three chapters of the main body and Con clusi on .The In troductio n partgives a brief i

9、n troductio n of Fitzgerald and his no vel The Great Gatsby,and summarizes the literature review home and abroad.Chapter One introduces the America n Dream, in cludi ng its evoluti onand in fluence.ChapterTwoa nalyzes the ma in characters America n Dreamrespectively. Theyare Jay Gatsby, Daisy Fay Bucha nan, the n arrator Nick Carraway, andMyrtle Wils on .Chapter Three concen trates on the in flue nce of consumerism on the Amer