20世纪美国文学《了不起的盖茨比》.doc

邯郸学院外国语学院 School of Foreign Languages of Handan College 20世纪美国文学学期论文 论文题目： 《了不起的盖茨比》中象征主义分析 Title： On the symbolism in The Great Gatsby 专 业： 英语（师范） _ On the symbolism in The Great Gatsby Abstract: F. Scott Fitzgerald is a great novelist of the 20th century in American literature. The Great Gatsby is written by him and this novel is one of his best works, which is so important for researchers to study the life of “roaring twenties”. In this novel, Fitzgerald describes the failure of American dream and crisis of values through the different characters’ life. The author stresses the themes from several aspects, among them; the symbolism is an obvious one. In this novel, the dream, the colors and the name of characters are very vivid, and all of them, have their true meaning. This thesis intends to show a comprehensive analysis of the symbols in The Great Gatsby Key words: symbolism American dream value Introduction The Great Gatsby portrays a young man’s dream of pursuing of love and wealth, however, after he is successful to reach his aim of money, he is fallen into a series of fantastic accidents. The hero, Gatsby is a poor youth from Midwest, and falls in love with Daisy who is a wealthy girl, but he is too poor to marry her. After the girl married to a rich young man, he decides to make his lost love be back. Gatsby earns enough money to buy a palatial house through some improper means. In order to allure the Buchanans to come, he holds dazzling parties every weekend. However, after they finally come, Gatsby is only to find that the woman is no longer the ideal love of him. His wonderful dream is almost destroyed. At last, Gatsby is shot when Daisy kills a woman in an accident and her husband shifts the blame on him. “Fitzgerald’s greatness lies in the fact that he found intuitively, in his personal experience, the embodiment of that of the nation and created a myth out of American life