美国文学Francis Scott Fitzgerald（课堂PPT）

1、.1Francis Scott Fitzgerald 弗朗西斯斯科特菲茨杰拉德.2Contents:1.Life and career of Francis Scott Fitzgerald2. Fitzgeralds major works 3. Fitzgeralds writing style4. Representative work-The Great Gatsby plot of this book distinctive female characters Jazz Age and the decaying American dream.3 Fitzgerald is a fam

2、ous American novelist, short storywriter and essayist ； Fitzgerald is a representative of the 1920s:a spokesman for the Jazz Age; one of the “lost generation” writers.1.Life and career of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.41.Life and career of Francis Scott Fitzgerald1896Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in

3、St.Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 18961913. Studied at Princeton University1917After his failure in the love affairs with Ginevra，Scott left Princeton without graduating in 1917.1918He decided to fight as a soldier in the WW, but he was sent for training to Montgomery, Alabama in the South1920his

4、first novel This Side of Paradise reached an great success and married Zelda and lived an extravagant life .1940In 21 December 1940,he died of heart attack.5Novels：1920年：This Side of Paradise尘世乐园1922年：The Beautiful and Damned美丽与毁灭1925年：The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比1934年：Tender Is the Night夜色温柔1941年：The Lo

5、ve of the Last Tycoon最后一个影坛大亨Short story collections：1920年：Flappers and Philosophers 姑娘们与哲学家们1922年：Tales of the Jazz Age 爵士时代的故事1922年：The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 本杰明巴顿奇事1926年：All the Sad Young Men 所有悲伤的年轻人的故事Other notable works：1923年：The Vegetable蔬菜1945年：The Crack-Up崩溃2.Fitzgeralds major wor

6、ks .6 Fitzgerald was one of the great stylists in American literature. His prose is smooth, sensitive, and completely original in its diction and metaphors. Its simplicity and gracefulness;its skill in manipulating the relation between the general and the specific reveal his consummate （完美的）（完美的）art

7、istry.3. Fitzgeralds writing style.71.The Plot of The Great Gatsby: Gatsby is a poor youth from the Midwest. He falls in love with Daisy, a girl from a wealthy family. As a poor lad, Gatsby is too poor to marry her, so Daisy is married to a rich young man named Tom Buchanan. Determined to win Daisy

8、back, Gatsby engages himself in Bootlegging(非法制造私酒) and other illegal activities, thus earns enough money to buy a magnificent mansion. There he hosts dazzling parties every weekend in the hope of attracting the Buchanans to come. By chance his next-door neighbor, Nick Carraway, is Daisys relative a

9、nd he helps Gatsby to make an appointment. They finally come and Gatsby meets Daisy again. .81.The Plot of The Great Gatsby: But he finds Daisy is no longer the ideal love of his dream. A sense of loss and disillusionment come over him. Daisy and Tom do not really love each other. In fact, Tom has a

10、 mistress by the name of Myrtle Wilson, who is the wife of the owner of a garage. One day Daisy quarrels with Tom and in a fit of anger she drives Gatsbys car and kills Myrtle in an accident. In order to protect themselves, Daisy and Tom plot to shift the blame on to Gatsby, saying Gatsby has an aff

11、air with Myrtle and he kills her eventually. Myrtles husband George Wilson breaks into Gatsbys house and shots him to death. The Buchanans escape, and the only two people attending Gatsbys funeral are Nick and Gatsbys father, who reads the news in newspaper.9 Daisy Buchanan (黛西布坎南) an attractive but

12、 shallow and self-absorbed, young debutante and socialite（社会名流）, identified as a flapper. She is the upper class.2.distinctive female characters.10 Jordan Baker(乔丹乔丹 贝克贝克) - Daisy s long-time friend with “autumn-leaf yellow” hair, a firm athletic body, and an aloof attitude. She is Nick s girlfriend

13、 A cynical and conceited woman who cheats in golf; wants Nick to go out with her. 2.distinctive female characters.11 Myrtle Wilson (威尔逊太太)- Georges wife, and Tom s mistress. She possesses a fierce vitality, is desperate to find refuge from her complacent marriage, but unfortunately this leads to her

14、 tragic ending：accidentally killed by Gatsbys car driven by Daisy. 2.distinctive female characters.12 Though these three women three different classes ,they share the same characteristics of female values under the Jazz Age, that is abandon the traditional female virtues and pursue an extreme materi

15、al life .They think wealth is the only criteria of success. Women described in that book are . all pretty in appearance but hollow inside; .money oriented; .vainglorious; .selfish.2.distinctive female characters.13 The Great Gatsby exposes the representative figures human nature of falseness, indiff

16、erence and selfishness , under the cult of gold-worships trend. When the novel makes its character delineation , its words and plots are humorous and vivid. So, you may ask why Francis Scott Fitzgerald described women in such a way.14 The root reason of such description is the 1920ss social climate-

17、money is king. Background.15 The Jazz Age is the nickname in America of the decade of the 1920s, beginning from 1919 to the Crash at the end of 1929. It refers to the “Twenties” of this century . These ten years were in :3.1 Background: Jazz Age carefree prosperity, a feverish pursuit of pleasure ma

18、ny went into debt in order to obtain such things bewildering great social change WWI was just over, new inventions and techniques urbanization women got right to vote .16 People in that time lived a rich, extravagant, frivolous money making life.But beneath their masks of relaxation,the age was an e

19、ra of decayed social and moral values and empty pursuit of pleasure. Fitzgerald was both a leading participant in the typically frivolous, carefree, money-making life of the decade and, at the same time, a detached observer of it. He was the most representative novelist of the 1920s.3.1 Background: Jazz Age .17 It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire . - F. Scott Fitzgerald 这是一个奇迹的时代，一个艺术的时代，一个挥金如土的时这是一个奇迹的时代，一个