本篇论文拟从梦想基石的现实性的角度来解析《了不起的盖茨比》一书中盖茨比悲剧的必然性。旨在论证只有基石牢固，才能实现梦想的中心思想。本文共分为优尔部分。第一部分介绍了作者弗•司各特•菲茨杰拉德的生平和《了不起的盖茨比》这本小说的背景和内容。第二部分阐述了梦想的定义和盖茨比梦想的实质内容。第三部分主要使用对比方法分析了《了不起的盖茨比》和《推销员之死》两部不同的作品中，两位主人公相似的悲剧下场的原因。论证了不牢靠的梦想基石是导致了两位主人公最后悲剧的结论。第四部分是将作品得出的关于梦想基石牢固性的教训联系到当下的现实中去，表达了当今社会人们追求梦想需要实事求是的中心思想。第五部分是总结。
毕业论文关键词：盖茨比，梦想，基石，现实性CONTENTS
Acknowledgements.i
Abstractii
摘要.iii
1 Introduction    1
2 Analysis of Dreams    3
2.1 The Dream of Great Gatsby    3
2.2 The Crux of Gatsby’s Dream    5
2.3 Not All Dreams Can Be Realized    6
3 The Pedestal of a Dream    9
3.1 The Fallacy of Gatsby's Dream    9
3.2 The Absurdity of Willy's Dream    12
3.3 The Reason Why Both of Their Dreams Fell Through    15
4 The Lesson from Dreams    17
4.1 The Importance of A Solid Pedestal for a Dream    17
4.2 More Dreams that People Have Nowadays    18
4.3 Call the Spade a Spade    18
5 Conclusion    20
Bibliography22
1 Introduction
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) is among the greatest American novelists, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.
It is universally accepted that his works are largely based on his own experiences or familiar people from surroundings. His life experiences give him inspirations or archetypes for his creation (Dong Hengxun, 2002:9). And therefore an investigation into his life experiences becomes necessarily and critically important.
Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family, Fitzgerald was named after his famous second cousin, three times removed, Francis Scott Key, but was referred to by the familiar the possibility of realizing their dreams as Moniker Scott Fitzgerald. He was also named after his deceased sister, Louise Scott, one of two sisters who died shortly before his birth. "Well, three months before I was born," he wrote as an adult, "my mother lost her other two children . I think I started then to be a writer."
Fitzgerald spent the first decade of his childhood primarily in Buffalo, New York (1898–1901 and 1903–1908, with a short interlude in Syracuse, New York between January 1901 and September 1903). His parents, both Catholic, sent Fitzgerald to two Catholic schools on the West Side of Buffalo, first Holy Angels Convent (1903–1904, now disused) and then Nardin Academy (1905–1908). His formative years in Buffalo revealed him to be a boy of unusual intelligence and drive with an early keen interest in literature, his doting mother ensuring that her son had all the advantages of an upper-middle-class upbringing. 梦想的基石《了不起的盖茨比》新视角鉴析 (2):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_24474.html