The Great Gatsby and the Ideological World of Fitzgerald of Ronald Berman used first-hand information to comment The Great Gatsby。 It analyzed the theological concept of Gatsby’s thoughts, and explored the materialistic consumptive culture and the effect that the material universe has on writing。 文献综述

Traditional research technique has been broken as new approaches showing up。 The Romanian scholar Virgil Miharu writes Between the Jazz Age and the Post-Modernism: F Scott Fitzgerald, uses Jazz terms like syncopation and pronunciation to analyze the connection between Fitzgerald and Post-Modernist from the reversed perspective of musical aesthetics。 View about women becomes a catholic topic which is studied by scholars all over the world in recent years。 The Female in Fitzgerald’s Novel of Rena Sanderson analyzed the single girls of Fitzgerald’ s works, these single girls become cultural icon at that time。

With the historical factors, the study to Fitzgerald experienced from edge to center process。 As the arrival of new century, The Great Gatsby is getting more attention, the scholars of China use different literature to study The Great Gatsby in full rages, like feminism, archetypal criticism and psychoanalysis。 Compare with the western country, China is weak in innovative thinking ability in study of The Great Gatsby。 

II。 The Great Gatsby

2。1 The Author of The Great Gatsby 

The author of The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald lived in a family of merchant in St。 Paul city of Minnesota。 He spent his childhood in hometown。 In the age of eleven, his father went bankruptcy and their life condition was poor。 He finished his studies with the relatives’ help。 He wanted to be a football player when he was the student of Princeton University。 It’s a pity that he can’t make this happen, he repeated a year work for illness, “can’t get the honor, can’t win medal, I lose everything I want。” (Brown 388) So he aimed at writing and dreamed to be one of the most popular writers of American history。 He joined the army in 1917 and occupied himself with literary labor, he trying to make his name a household word, but it didn’t happen as he expected, his works weren’t beloved by the publisher until his first novel This Side of Paradise was published。 It brought him a handsome income, and finally he made a hit in writing。来:自[优E尔L论W文W网www.youerw.com +QQ752018766-

Fitzgerald was a famous American novelist who was called a poet laureate in Jazz Age (Close 21)。 In America, 1920s is an age of “noise” of America which was full of turmoil and anger, swizzle manners prevailed in this age。 As the spokesman of the lost generation, Fitzgerald’s work mainly reflected the disillusionment of American dream of the younger generation which is caused by the disillusionment of the World War I。 After the war, the youth lost their faith to God。 They didn’t believe the tradition any longer。 They just believed their own feelings (Dong 85)。 At the same time, they fully enjoyed the luxury post-war life。 But the lost generation did not stop the steps of aspire after pleasure and stimulation。 So they fought against the tradition, addicted to drink, but in the depth of their hearts covered with despairs and inanities。 As a spokesman of this age, Fitzgerald lived in noise but he kept a clear head。 His works recorded his own dream, and portrayed the changes in America more than ten years after the war。 He look-ahead the crisis behind the prosperity。 The mightiness features of his work do not be recognized until more than ten years after his death。 In recent half a century, Fitzpatrick Gerald’s position in the American literature history is rising high, the same stand as Hemingway and William Faulkner (Li&Chang 219-212)。