了不起的盖茨比中的象征主义 曹玉.doc

PAGE  PAGE 1 On the Symbolism in The Great Gatsby By Cao Yu March, 2016 School of Foreign Languages Hubei Engineering University Abstract F．Scott．Fitzgerald，the famous American novelist in the 20th century，is known as the spokesman and laureate of the “Jazz Age”America，whose works give us an accurate picture of the aura of the American twenties the prosperity of economy and the moral absence. Written in 1925，The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary．Now people keep reading it．The critics analyze the novel through different perspectives，such as he writing techniques，the narrative point of view，the structure of the novel，etc. His novel bears some features of modernism，among which symbolism is the most remarkable. This thesis mainly discussed with the symbolism in colors，goods and the geographical positions. It consists six parts, the first parts introduces the writer and his work. The second part writes the literary contribution and reputation of The Great Gatsby to American literature. Chapter three analyzes the concept of symbolism in literature, and the function of it. Chapter four concerns about different colors occurred in this story, which reveals the dark humanity and serves the theme of the fiction. The author criticized the hypocrisy of the upper class society. Next part is concerned about the symbols in goods and geographical positions. Though all of the plots take place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area, The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on the 1920s America as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess. The last part is the conclusion, Fitzgerald uses many symbols through out the story, and all the symbols all serve the one theme: Gatsby’s pursuit of dream and its final loss of dream. It reflects the deep social problems by illustrate the broken of American dream. Key words: symbolisms,