Abstract This paper describes Gatsby’s love tragedy and his behaviors to save his love; it analyzes the causes of Gatsby’s tragedy socially and personally. It is the phenomenon of the rigid social hierarchy, money worship and spiritual emptiness as well as Gatsby’s character weakness that caused the disillusionment of Gatsby’s love. At the end of the paper, the author points out this thesis also has the realistic significance, the paper aims at making people understand this novel more deeply and contributing to building healthy values today.54200

Keywords: Gatsby’s love tragedy; tragedy causes; realistic significance  

摘要本论文从盖茨比的爱情悲剧角度入手,介绍了盖茨比的爱情梦和文中他如何挽救自己爱情的一系列举动, 从社会因素和个人因素两方面分析了造成盖茨比爱情悲剧的根源。严格的社会等级制度,金钱至上,精神空虚的社会现象以及 盖茨比个人性格上的弱点等都造成了他爱情梦的破灭。最后,作者指出:对于盖茨比的爱情悲剧的分析也有着一定的现实意义,旨在使人们更好的解读小说,有助于人们在现代社会建立健康的价值观。

毕业论文关键词：盖茨比的爱情悲剧；悲剧根源；现实意义

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 1

3. The Love Tragedy in The Great Gatsby 4

3.1 The Pursuit of Love 4

3.2 The Disillusionment of Gatsby’s Love……………………………….5

4. Analysis on the Causes of Gatsby’s Love Tragedy ...........................5

4.1 Naivety and Innocence in Gatsby’s Character 5

4.2 The Cruelty of the Upper-class People…………………………….....6

5. The Realistic Significance 7

5.1 Love and Money 7

5.2 Moral Lesson 8

6. Conclusion 9

Works Cited 11

1. Introduction

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is one of the greatest American writers in 20th century. He writes both full lengthy novels and short stories. The most famous work by him is The Great Gatsby. In his whole life, he is troubled by two things, including his talents and his fortune. He once owns all of them but later loses them all. After his death, critics all criticize his life to be a waste. In his whole life, he writes 4 full-lengthy novels and 150 short stories. 

The Great Gatsby was published in 1925. It is a short-lengthy novel written by the American writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. It is regarded as the symbol of American literature in Jazz Age. First published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold poorly; in its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself a failure and his work forgotten. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. The story mainly tells about a young and mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and his crazy and unrealistic pursuit for Daisy Fay Buchanan. This novel is regarded as Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. It discusses topics like lapse, idealism, obstacles of reformation, social changes and so on. It’s a deep description for the Jazz Age and the prosperous 20s and it’s also considered as an alert of American dream. Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title “Great American Novel”. 浅析《了不起的盖茨比》中盖茨比的爱情悲剧:http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_58503.html