THE_GREAT_GATSBY了不起的盖茨比.ppt

1 The Green Light “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic极度兴奋的 future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” 盖茨比信奉这盏绿灯，这个一年年在我们眼前渐渐远去的极乐的未来。它从前逃脱了我们的追求，不过那没关系——明天我们跑得更快一点，把胳臂伸得更远一点……总有一天…… 　　于是我们奋力向前划，逆流向上的小舟，不停地倒退，进入过去。  1 The Green Light The green light is only a green light at the end of Daisy’s dock , but to Gatsby it becomes the embodiment 体现;化身 of his dream for the future, and it beckons to him in the night like a vision of the fulfillment of his desires. “a pair of fading, bespectacled带眼镜的 eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes. ” 2 The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg “…blue and gigantic---their retinas视网膜 are one yard high. They look out of no face, but from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existentnose. …an oculist set them there to fatten his practice...” 2 The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg The eyes could mean anything to any observer, but they tend to make observers feel as though they are the ones being scrutinized. [skru:tinaiz] ? 仔细检查, 细看 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Spokesman of the Jazz Age Contents Background Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Plotline Character Analysis 4. Themes. 5.Discussion . A spokesman of the “Jazz Age” The Jazz Age The Jazz Age is the nickname in America of the decade of the 1920’s, beginning from 1919 to the Crash at the end of 1929. These ten years were, for Americans, a time of carefree prosperity, isolated from the world’s problem, bewildering great social change, and a feverish pursuit of pleasure. , These were the ten years when the First World War was just over, when new inventions and manufacturing techniques greatly changed the way people lived; when people moved from the countryside in g