Abstract

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, one of the most famous American novelists, is the mouthpiece of the Jazz age. His representative work The Great Gatsby shows us a morally bankrupt society and summarizes the process of the evolvement of American dream. The scholars at home and abroad have deeply explored meaningful topics of this novel, such as power, money and American dream. The present paper intends to do a research on causes of disillusionment of Gatsby’s dream from three perspectives: the individual, class and society. Through the analysis, we can see clearly that Gatsby’s contradictory character, class distinctions and the morally bankrupt society lead to the disillusionment of Gatsby’s dream

Key words: Fitzgerald; American dream; disillusionment

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction-1

2. Literature Review-1

3. Individual Tragedy-3

4. Class Tragedy-5

5. Social Tragedy-7

6. Conclusion-9

Works Cited-11