TheGreatGatsby《了不起的盖茨比》导读,英文研究报告.pptx

The Great Gatsby By: Wendy F E D C B Author A Back-ground symbolism Plots Characters Comments Author----Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald ?Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald?(September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the?Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the “Lost Generation of the 1920s. Author----Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald He finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night and his most famous, the celebrated classic, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. Author----Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald His first literary effort, a detective story, was published in a school newspaper when he was 13. Novels such as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night were made into films, and in 1958 his life from 1937–1940 was dramatized in Beloved Infidel. Background The great Gatsby , regard the1920s New York and long Island(长岛） as the whole background. It set in the upper middle class of the modern American society and narrated surround Callaway. The 1920s is the history of the United States ,which is a short but special period and was known as “ the hustle and bustle of the age ”（喧嚣时代）. It refers to the10 years, which from the first World War in 1919 to the debacle of the economy before the 1929. Background Several factors constitute the particularity of this era: The United States was in the old and new historical intersection, The vigorous development of capitalism The agricultural civilization turn into the modern society of industrialization. After the World War 1, the U.S occupied the wealth of the war , the debtor countries