英语论文了不起的盖茨比的文体分析英文.doc

毕 业 设 计（论文） 题 目 A Brief Stylistic Analysis on “The Great Gatsby” 《了不起的盖茨比》的文体分析 专 业 英 语 学生姓名 学 号 指导教师 2006年4月29日  Abstract: The Great Gatsby is regarded as one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpieces. The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s American as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American Idealism in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess. This paper concentrates on the delusions of American dream which is conveyed in this novel, and also attempts to analyze the characteristics of writing devices employed in this novel from the aspects of stylistics. Key words: F. Scott Fitzgerald linguistic presentation metaphor simile  1. Introduction 1.1 A brief account of the author Scott Fitzgerald was born at the family home on Laurel Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. F. Scott Fitzgerald holds the franchise. A glittering success as a writer when he was just twenty-four, but Fitzgerald died still a young man, at forty-four. Fitzgeralds parents were Roman Catholic, and he was raised in the church and sent to a Catholic boys school on the East Coast before attending college. As a boy, Fitzgerald was anxious to be a popular socialite. His youthful flirtations with St. Paul girls, the parties he attended, and the private prep school he was finally sent East to attend are the stuff on which his early stories “Basil and Josephine” and “The Rich Boy” are founded. One of his very finest short stories, “Winter Dreams,” encompasses a more realistic look at his yearning distance from the country-club, upper-class world, a world to which his mothers family had given him entrance, but of which he never felt comfortably part. He wrote several plays when a young teenager, and staged them with classmates and friends at home in St. Paul. From 1911 to 1913, at the catholic preparatory New