摘要《了不起的盖茨比》是由美国作家菲茨杰拉德于1925 年所写的一部中篇小说，它以20世纪20年代的纽约和长岛为背景描写了盖茨比执着坚守爱情而最终被爱情抛弃，并为之殒命的悲剧故事。本文采用研读，文本分析和心理分析批评的方法来分析主要人物的爱情观以及造成他们爱情悲剧的主要根源，揭示了盖茨比的浪漫主义爱情观，黛西的金钱至上的爱情观，以及造成他们爱情悲剧的三个原因：阶级矛盾，金钱和美国梦的破灭。希望以此可以使年轻朋友更好的理解该作品并且可以帮助他们培养正确的爱情观。29905
毕业论文关键词: 《了不起的盖茨比》；爱情观；浪漫主义；金钱至上
Abstract The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 by an American writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, which is a medium-length novel on the background of 1920s’ New York city and Long Island, describes a tragic love story of Gatsby who tenaciously sticks to his love but is abandoned by love and eventually dies for love. This essay will adopt close-reading, text analysis method and psychoanalytic criticism method, to analyze the
main characters’ love view and the root causes for their love tragedy. Accordingly, it reveals Gatsby’s romantic love, Daisy’s money-oriented love, and the three causes, which lead to their love tragedy: class
contradiction, money and the ruin of American dream. Hopefully this paper will be beneficial for young people to the understanding of the novel and help them cultivate the right love view.
Key words: The Great Gatsby; love view; Romanticism; money-oriented
Contents
摘要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. Elementary Analysis of Gatsby’ s Love for Daisy 2
2.1 Personality Characteristics of Gatsby 2
2.2 The Romanticism of Gatsby’ s Love 3
2.3 The Relationship Between Love and Wealth in Gatsby’ s Love 4
爱情悲剧III. Elementary Analysis of Daisy’s Love for Gatsby 5
3.1 Personality Characteristics of Daisy5
3.2 The Realism of Daisy’s Love .7
3.3 The Relationship Between Love and Wealth in Daisy’ s Love 8
IV. Root Causes for Gatsby’s Love Tragedy 9
4.1 The Class Contradiction Between Gatsby and Daisy 9
4.2 Personality Changes Caused by Money and Status 10
4.3 The Ruin of American Dream 11
V. Conclusion 13
Bibliography 15
Acknowledgments 16
A Brief Analysis of Love in The Great Gatsby
I. Introduction
The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 by an American writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, which is a medium-length novel on the background of 1920s’ New York city and Long Island, describes all the transmigration and vanity of America’s polite society at that time, is the representative of American’s “Jazz Age”.
Whether in the depth of thinking or in the artistic expressive force, The Great Gatsby is absolutely a classic. Domestic and foreign scholars mostly focus their attention on the theme of the work which shows the disillusioned American dream while few scholars aim at the love view of the main figures in the work. However, love is always an important and eternal theme in literature since the ancient times, The Great Gatsby focuses on the tragedy of Gatsby’s love, telling us about the concept of love during America’s “Jazz Age”after World War I.
This paper mainly analyzes the love view of the main figures. It consists of five parts. Part 1 is a brief introduction about The Great Gatsby’s author, its writing background, etc. Part 2 is about the analysis of Gatsby’s love for Daisy, including the analysis about Gatsby’s characters, ability to endure, inpisibility and deeper satisfaction of Gatsby’s love. Part 3 is the analysis of Daisy’s love for Gatsby. Th
rough the analysis, we can have a better understanding of Daisy’s personality characteristics, her inability to endure and the relatively lower
satisfaction of Daisy’s love. Part 4 mainly talks about the root causes of love tragedy between Gatsby and Daisy and the conflict between them. Part 5 is a conclusion. Through the analysis and study of the main figures’love view, people can know youngsters pursuing and dream about love at that time, so that the contemporary young people could have some inspiration and reflection, for instance, what is love, how to love, and the relationship between love and reality. :
II. Elementary Analysis of Gatsby’s Love for Daisy
2.1 Personality Characteristics of Gatsby
The creation of America is the beginning of the dream. American dream is gradually growing as the Americans developed the western area. The aim of the spirit is: as long as you make diligent efforts, you can make money and achieve your dream. Deeply influenced by the spirit, American people got highly motivated and were pushed upwards. Especially in the 1920s, the rapid development of American capitalism led to people’s life substance and economic prosperity. When they were indulged in the pleasure of material wealth, then humanity is gone. The pursuit of material
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