F·Scott Fitzgerald.ppt

1、Chapter Eight,FScott Fitzgerald (1896 1940),Born in St. Paul, Minnesota A spokesman for the so-called Jazz Age, setting a personal as well as literary example for a generation whose first commandment was: Do what you will. His novels such as The Great Gatsby (1925), Tender Is the Night (1934), and T

2、he Last Tycoon (1941), amplify the melancholy he discovered beneath the glitter of American-style success.,Literary term,Jazz Age: It is an epithet applied, often invidiously, to the era of the 1920s in the U.S., whose frenetic youth of the post war period were conceived as more juvenile and hedonis

3、tic than the contemporary “lost generation” of expatriates. F. Scott Fitzgeralds Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was a classic representation of the period.,Character portrayal,Jay Gatsby Nick Carraway Tom Buchannan Daisy Buchannan,Narrative technique,The story is told through Nick Carraway who functio

4、ns both as a character in the story and the narrator of the whole work. As a character, he is “within”, involving himself in the actions of the story.,As a narrator, he is standing away from the story and able to give an objective presentation to the events and characters of the novel. Fitzgerald inherits this narrative technique from James and Conrad.,Questions to ponder,Why people refused to come to Gatsbys funeral? What do you feel about Gatsbys father? Do you think Gatsbys