他（菲茨杰拉德）认识到了美国梦对自己的严重影响， 作品中的自传因素，以典型的个人经历具体说明人类社会 的一般真理。 --- 阿瑟 美国梦 ( American Dream) 的实践者

" That was always my experience ---- a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton.... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works."

“We in the infantry thought that we had three months to live.I wanted to leave something of permanence behind me" Fitzgerald ’ s American Dream

"I've fallen in love with a whirlwind,” declared the young Lieutenant Fitzgerald, having met Zelda Sayre at a country club. It was in the summer of 1918 in Montgomery, Alabama. "She dances like a flame."

F. Scott Fitzgerald arrived in Manhattan, he wrote to his sweetheart, Zelda: " I am in the land of ambition and success.“

The Jazz Age, Scott named it, and they became the icons of the decade.

Europe :The dollar is strong.

Ernest Hemingway pointed the finger at Zelda's "festival concept" of life. "She's not your Muse. She's Your Nemesis," he roared. "She'll destroy you in the end." Madness was latent in Zelda's family. "like employing a sculptor to do the plumbing".

The Villa Marie, France, where Scott completes and revises the first draft of The Great Gatsby

The apartment house where F. SCOTT FITZGERALD died in at 1443 North Hayworth Ave., in Hollywood, California.

At 44 he died there, leaving his executor "the will of a millionaire and the estate of a pauper".

2. The Hollowness of the Upper Class (the corruptive effect of wealth) The established rich possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, but lacks in heart, as the East Eggers prove themselves careless, inconsiderate bullies The newly rich is sincere and loyal, but is vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste, taking wealth as the only standard (Is shown by the conflict between the two groups and their deficiencies)

Symbols  The Green Light  The Valley of Ashes  The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg  The East Egg and West Egg

He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way … I glanced seaward----and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. Green Light “ If it wasn ’ t for the mist we could see your home across the bay. You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock. ” Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us.

between West Egg and New York City a long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. “ A fantastic farm where ashes grow into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens ” The Valley of Ashes

a pair of fading, bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes. The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg “… blue and gigantic----their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose. … an oculist set them there to fatten his practice ….Dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground. ”

Narrative Technique The technical aspect that makes organized The Great Gatsby the best organized of Fitzgerald’s novel is the use of Nick Carrawayfirst-person narrator. Nick Carraway as the first-person narrator.

Quotations Though we have finally been introduced to JayGatsby, he remains fundamentally mystery a mystery. Few of the partygoers have so much as met their host, and Gatsby stands aloof stands aloof from his own celebration.