The-great-Gatsby-了不起的盖茨比.ppt

The great Gatsby Members： What should we know about the author? * * Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in St.Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896, the only son of anunsuccessful upper class father and an energetic mother of an Irish background.His family was socially prominent and genteelly poor. His grandfather on his mother’s side had a small fortune in the business. This gave Scott some advantages in a money-oriented society, and eventually gave him his expensive education first in a fashionable Catholic preparatory school in New Jersey and then at Princeton University in 1913. He is a productive writer 1920：This Side of Paradise 《人间天堂》 1922：The Beautiful and the Damned 《美丽的和可诅咒的》 1925：The Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》 1934：Tender is the Night 《夜色温柔》 1941： The last Tycoon 《最后的大亨》 Background: Written in 1920s, the novel chronicles the anomie following the First World War. American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the“roaring” 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers and led to an increase in organized crime. Although Fitzgerald, like Nick in his novel, idolized the riches and glamour of the age, he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and the lack of morality that went with it, a kind of decadence.Both Gatsby and the author have unforgettable unhappy youth, and both have got a tragic fate. Besides, their ways of getting “Golden Girls” are similar. Lets have a quick look at the novel The plot of The Great Gatsby Gatsby is a poor youth from the Midwest. He falls in love with Daisy, a girl from a wealthy family. As a poor lad, Gatsby is too poor to marry her, so Daisy is married to a rich young man named Tom Buchanan. Determined to win Daisy back, Gatsby engages himself in Bootlegging and other illegal activities, thus earns enough money to buy a magnificent ma