Great Gatsby was published in 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. At first glance, the novel appears to be a simple love story, but further examination reveals Fitzgerald's masterful scrutiny of American society during the 1920s and the corruption of the American dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1926) is, at first sight, a novel about love, idealism and disillusionment. However, it soon reveals its hidden depths and enigmas. What is the significance of the strange "waste land" between West Egg and New York, where Myrtle Wilson meets her death, an alien landscape presided over by the eyes of T J Eckleburg whose eyes, like God's, "see everything"? And what are we to make of the novel's unobtrusive symbolism (the green light, the colour of American dollar bills, which burns at the end of Daisy's dock, the references to the elements - land, sea and earth - over which Gatby claims mastery, the contrast between "East" and "West"), or its subtle use of the personalised first narrator, the unassuming Nick Carraway? It is a novel which has intrigued and fascinated readers. Clearly, as a self-proclaimed "tale of the West", it is exploring questions about America and what it means to be American. In this sense Gatsby is perhaps that legendary opus, the "Great American Novel", following in the footsteps of works such as Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn. We will return to this aspect of the novel in more detail later on. However, we also need to be aware that it is a novel which has much to be say about more abstract questions to do with faith, belief and illusion. Although rooted in the "Jazz Age" which Fitzgerald is so often credited with naming, it is also a novel which should be considered alongside works like The Waste Land, exploring that "hollowness at the heart of things" which lies just below the surface of modern life. Eliot himself remarked that the novel "interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years". Viewed from more distant perspectives it is possible to see Gatsby as an archetypally tragic figure, the epitome of idealism and innocence which strives for order, purpose and meaning in a chaotic and hostile world. In this sense Gatsby contains religious and metaphysical dimensions: the young man who shapes a "Platonic vision of himself" and who endows the worthless figure of Daisy with religious essence, eventually passes away into nothingness, with few at the funeral to lament the passing of his romantic dream. 1。摘要《了不起的盖茨比》,发表在1922年弗·斯·菲茨杰拉德。乍一看,这部小说似乎是一种简单的爱情故事,而是进一步观察发现菲茨杰拉德巧妙的检查在二十世纪二十年代美国社会的腐败的“美国梦”。 弗·斯·菲茨杰拉德的了不起的盖茨比(1926年),乍一看,是一种新型的关于爱情、理想主义和虚假。然而,很快就深藏不露,揭示了它是个谜。有什麽重要性旷野奇怪”“在西鸡蛋和纽约,在那里,桃金娘威尔逊和她的死亡,一个陌生的土地,主持T J Eckleburg眼睛的眼睛,就像神的、“看一切”吗?和我们怎样使小说的不唐突的象征(绿色之光的色彩,美国美金,烧结束时参考,戴西的码头的元素——陆地、海洋和地球——Gatby声称的掌握,对比“东宫”和“西部”),或其微妙的使用个人第一旁白,而谦逊的尼克Carraway吗? 是一款新奇感兴趣和倾倒的读者。显然,作为一个自称“故事,讲的是西”,是探索关于美国和这是什么意思,可能是美国人。在这个意义上,盖茨比也许是传奇的杰作,“伟大的美国小说”,尾随作品,例如《白鲸》和《哈克贝里·费恩险记。 我们将返回这方面的小说在稍后又更详细说明。而且,我们也需要注意的是:这是一个小说,有不少地方需要说更为抽象的问题与的信念、信仰和幻觉。虽然根植于“爵士乐时代”,菲茨杰拉德是经常因命名,它也是一个小说作品一起时,应考虑像旷野、探索,“空旷的事情”的核心是在表面之下的现代生活。 艾略特自己说那个小说《很感兴趣并且兴奋我比任何的新小说,我看到了美国,要么学英语