Abstract The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Its story described a time of binge drinking and hedonism under the period of the Prohibition during 1920s’. Under the method of New Historicism, the paper analyzes the relationship between The Great Gatsby and the Prohibition and the meaning behind it.61926

The Great Gatsby and the Prohibition can influence each other and are built on each other. The paper analyzes the relationship between alcohol, young generation, consumerism and social transformation under 1920s’. 

The paper is mainly pided into five parts. In the first part, it introduces the basic knowledge about The Great Gatsby, the Prohibition and New Historicism. The second part and the third part are the body of the paper. it introduces the relationship between the Prohibition and The Great Gatsby from two different perspectives. The second part analyze the novel by putting it under the Prohibition and believes that the Prohibition is the foundation of the novel. The third part puts the Prohibition into the novel and analyze the meaning and the social influence of the novel. The fifth part is the conclusion of this paper.

Key Words: The Great Gatsby, New Historicism, the Prohibition, F. Scott Fitzgerald

摘要：《了不起的盖茨比》美国作家菲茨杰拉德于1925年所出版的小说。它讲述了二十世纪二十年代期间，在一个在禁酒令时期的背景下人们狂欢饮酒和享乐主义盛行的年代。而在新历史主义的角度下，本篇论文分析了《了不起的盖茨比》与禁酒令之间的种种关联及其背后所代表的意义。

本篇论文认为，《了不起的盖茨比》与禁酒令之间是互相影响并互相建立在对方基础之上的。本文着重分析了在二十世纪二十年代期间，酒，年青一代，消费主义和社会转型期之间的种种关联。

本篇论文主要可分为五个部分。在第一个部分中，本文介绍了有关《了不起的盖茨比》，禁酒令和新历史主义的基本信息；第二和第三个部分是本文的主体部分。他们从两个角度分析了《了不起的盖茨比》与禁酒令之间的关系；第二部分将小说放在禁酒令的背景下来分析并认为禁酒令是小说的基础；第三部分将禁酒令放在小说之中并分析其小说的含义和社会影响。而第五个部分，是对全篇文章进行的总结。

毕业论文关键词：《了不起的盖茨比》，新历史主义，禁酒令，菲茨杰拉德

CONTENTS 

Acknowledgements.i

Abstract..ii

摘要iii

1 Introduction ..1 

1.1 F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby1

1.2 New Historicism and the Prohibition...1

1.3 Literature Review.2

2 The Great Gatsby under the Period of the Prohibition...5

2.1 The Reproduction of the Prohibition in the Novel...5

2.2 Conflict of Culture between traditionalists and younger generation ...6

3 The Prohibition under The Great Gatsby...10

3.1 Social Value and Morality..10

3.2 Critique and Review on the Age of Prohibition.13

4 Conclusion17

Bibliography19

1 Introduction 

1.1 The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald' s magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twentiesthat has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.