了不起的盖茨比分析英语专业毕业论文(编辑修改稿)

了不起的盖茨比分析英语专业毕业论文(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

Before the WWI, the laissezfaire democratic ideal that America had always believed was the product of an age when individual effort counted, when a man could rise his own efforts, and when if his affairs were not succeeding he could at least escape by signing up for a whaling voyage or lighting out for the territory ahead of the rest. When the system failed, it was the fault of rapscallions and crooks。 the version remained an ideal and the standard from which criticism and judgments could be made. However, WWI shattered this version. It ended once and for all the faith in individual effort that had been eroding since the Revolution and had persisted –sometimes naively and sometimes defensivelyin the fiction in this period. As Mark Schorer had pointed out, disillusionment with the American system and the efficacy of individual effort was the distinguishing characteristic of postwar American writing. “ The rootlessness of postwar American society, its restless alienation, and its consequent reliance on money were regarded as a code for expressing emotions and identity.‖(Brueccoli,p46) 3 The analysis of Gatsby’s greatness Gatsby was a man who spared no efforts to achieve his dreamDaisy and his love. In order to realize it, he changed his name first and then made money by bootlegging. However, he did not get what he wanted and his dream failed. Finally, he was murdered by a man whose wife was killed by Daisy. Though he was dead his persistence was worth to be learned by us. From the idealism he idealized his ―American Dream‖ and his life, and he lived in a life he imaged. Thus, his dream doomed to failure, but his courage and persistence were great. Gatsby’s courage and persistence Gatsby was pletely a man who tried his best to promote his social status from a lower class to higher class. His perseverance, courage and efforts made him get numerous money and stride into the higher class. ―The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standardit was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby‘s mansion.‖（ Fitzgerald,p9） From these words, we can speculate his efforts of being a rich man. He fell in love with Daisy when he was a lieutenant and he wanted to get married with her. However, he joined the army oversea to fight. In the army, he wrote letters to Daisy to keep touch with each other. After he knew that Daisy was married to Tom who was very rich he intended to obtain Daisy again. Thus, he came back to Daisy‘s hometown to get some information of Daisy. For five years he inquired about her, and he also did some business to make money to attract Daisy to him. His courage and willpower for Daisy was great though he was failed at last. In order to get money, he changed his name first and then inherited money from Cody. ―James Gatzthat was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his careerwhen he saw Dan Cody‘s yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior.‖ (Fitzgerald, p97) At that time when Gatsby saw Cody, Cody was fifty years old and he was a rich man. Cody got lots of money through copper transactions in Mantana. Thus, many girls and women wanted to gain his money, trying their best to achieve their dreams. Cody asked Gatsby a few questions and found that Gatsby was quick and extravagantly ambitious. A few days later, Cody took him to Duluth and bought Gatsby a blue coat, six pairs of white duck trousers, and a yacht cap. Cody left some money to Gatsby but Gatsby received no money because Cody‘s woman Ella Kaye got it after Cody‘s death. What he got was appropriate education。 the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man. Gatsby‘s pursuit for love, Daisy, and money and his continuous efforts to make them e true made him rich and obtained a higher social status. His courage and persistence were the characteristics of the ―American Dream.‖ ―Gatsby‘s life was filled with dream, the dream of beauty and love. He dedicated all his life to realize his dream.‖(张福勇 ) Gatsby’s kindness and generosity Every week Gatsby would hold party for all the guests ing to his geous house. ―In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.‖(Fitzgerald, p49) ―On weekends his RollsRoyce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbingbrushes and hammers and gardenshears, repairing the ravages of the night before.‖(Fitzgerald, p49) ―Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York –every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.‖(Fitzgerald, p49) Gatsby treated his guests with sumptuous feast and from all his actions he was known as a kind and generous man. When his guest‘s tore her gown on a chair, and Gatsby asked her name and address – a week later she got a package from Croirier‘s with a new evening gown in it. Gatsby treated all the people in his banquet well no matter others did not know him. And his smile was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it. His smile let other person feel fortable. When Gatsby planned to meet Daisy in Carraway‘s house he asked his gardener to mow his lawn. He wanted to introduce Carraway a job as a reward. Gatsby’s sacrifice spirit and filial piety, selfdiscipline When Daisy drov。