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Abstract

The Great Gatsby is one of Fitzgerald?s masterpieces.The author presented the tragedy of that age by describing Gatsby?s personal dilemma and failure.In this novel, Gatsby wants to win love through material success. However, his dream is based on illusionrather than reality, which is doomed to fail. Gatsby is the representative of the American dream. In some senses, Gatsby?s failure also predicts the shattering of the American dream itself.

This paper begins with an introduction about the author and the brief plot of the novelThe Great Gatsby. Then it tells the origin and the essence of the American dream. After that, itgives an analysis of Gatsby?s pursuit of fortune and love dream. Finally, the paper points out the inevitabledisillusion of Gatsby?s American dream and presents the factors of the tragedy.

Keywords: the American dream; fortune; love; disillusion

Contents

1. Introduction¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­1 2. The American Dream¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­2 2.1The Origin of the American Dream and its Development¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­3 2.2The essence of the American Dream and its Historical Background¡­¡­¡­4 3. The American Dream Reflected in Gatsby¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­5 3.1 Gatsby?s Pursuit of Fortune Dream¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­5 3.2 Gatsby?s Pursuit of Love Dream¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­6 4. Disillusion of Gatsby¡¯s American Dream¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­7 4.1Gatsby?s American Dream and His Illegal Activities¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­8 4.2Gatsby?s American Dream and the Social Environment¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­9 4.3Gatsby?s American Dream and His Innocence¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­10 5. Conclusion¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­11 References¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­13

1. Introduction

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the twentieth century?s greatest writers, whose works were the samples of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as the literary spokesman of the ¡°Jazz Age¡±¡ªan age between the end of the First World War and the outbreak of the Great Depression. In many ways, he expressed in his storiesthe disillusionment of the young generation with ¡°the American dream¡±.

Fitzgerald is also considered a member of the ¡°Lost Generation¡± of the 1920s. He was born into a middle-class familyin St. Paul, Minnesotain the American Midwest. In his short life, Fitzgerald experienced overnight fame and wealth in 1920s but suffered a lot in the 1930s. His first novel¡ªThis Side of Paradise was published in 1920 and became a best-seller, through which he got fame and commercial success. With a series of success of his writing, Fitzgerald had a high quality of life.In 1925, Fitzgerald managed to complete The Great Gatsby. This book brought him a critical comment and commercial failure. After that, with the pain of his personal life and the disappearance of the writing inspiration, he never wrote a well-known book any more. In1940, he died of a heart attack when he was only forty-four.

Different from other American writers who also had the American dream as the subject of their works, Fitzgerald impressed his readers from a new perspective.His works depicted the 1920s of America, the period of the high growth of America. With the richness of material, people?s spiritual life was corrupted, especially the life of the upper class. ¡°Many critics have seen Fitzgerald?s artistic achievement in terms of his ability to depict the American society, its history and its people.¡±(Tang Sooping, 1992:7)

The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick, a man from the Mid-West, going to New York to do business. He heard about his neighbor, a mysterious man called Jay Gatsby, who always held fabulous parties at his house. Gatsby was born in a poor family in the Middle West. During the time of serving in the army, Gatsby fell in love with Daisy, a wealthy girl. However, he was too poor to marry

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