农学1102班.ppt

1、The Great Gatsby,-Scott Fitzgerald,The Jazz time,That time ,the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity and nation. The ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol made millionaires out of bootleggers.,Louis Armstrong was one of the most famous musicians of the Jazz Age.,

2、Life of writer,1896 : September 24,he was born 1911 : he was sent to a New Jersey boarding school. 1913 :enrolled Princeton, with academic troubles and apathy throughout his time at college. 1917 :enlisted in the army without graduating. World war neared its end. In the Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery,

3、 Alabama, where he falls in love with a wild beauty, Zelda.,Background,Scott Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an ear that dubbed “the Jazz Age”. The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which exuberance became the order of the day.,The

4、Side of Paradise The Beautiful and DamnedTender is the night The last tycoon Tales of the Jazz time,Works,The publication of The side of paradise making him a literary sensation and earning enough money and fame .,Specialty,Fitzgerald fell into a wild reckless lifestyle of parties and decadence, whi

5、le desperately trying to please his wife by writing to earn money.,He saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to the moral emptiness,The main characters of the novel Jay Gatsz and Daisy,Characters Nick Carraway Jay Gatsby Daisy Buchanan Tom Buchanan Jordan Baker Myrtle Wilson George Wilson Owl Eyes

6、Kilpspringer,Plot,Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to , New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about bond business. Nicks new neighbor in the West egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby who lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion.,Theme,On the surface , the novel is a story of the thwa

7、rted love between a man and a woman. The theme of the novel, however ,encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope.,The novel is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular in the disintegration of the American dream in an ear of unprecedented prosperity and material ex

8、cess,Ending1,As the giddiness of the Roaring Twenties dissolved bleakness of the Great Depression, however Zelda suffered a nervous breakdown and Fitzgerald battled alcoholism, which hampered his writing. 1940,while he was working on his novel The Love of The last Tycoon, died of a heart attack at the age of 44.,Ending 2,Gatsby was killed by George Wilson ,ending the luxury and sad love with Daisy.,Disillusionment of American; Decayed