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1、TheDisillusionofAmericanDreaminTheGreatGatsbyThesisTitle:TheDisillusionofAmericanDreaminTheGreatGatsbyThesisstatement(Introduction):TheGreatGatsby,writtenin1925,isoneofthegreatestliterarydocumentsofthisperiodaswellasamasterpiecerelatedwithironyandpathostothe“AmericanDream.”Itisapicture
2、oftheunprecedentedprosperityandmaterialexcess.Manycriticshavemadealotofstudiesonitandwrotenumerouscriticalessays.TheEnglishfamouspoetandcriticT.S.Eliotwhohasneverhadahastyandextravagantcritic,readTheGreatGatsbythreetimesandpraisedthenovelwas“thefirststepthatAmericanfictionhastakensince
3、HenryJames.”(Donaldson,1984:268)H.L.Mencken,amostinfluentialcriticofthattime,declaredthisnoveltobe“nomorethanaglorifiedanecdote.”In1983,TheGreatGatsbywastranslatedintoChinesebyProfessorWuKunning,afterthatmanyChinesescholarsbeganstudyonTheGreatGatsby,analyzingitsartisticforms,itsthemean
4、ditssymbols.ToZhangLilong,“TheGreatGatsbyisactuallyarecallandsummaryoftheprocessofevolvementoftheAmericandreamhistoricalandrealisticperspectives.”(ZhangLilong,1998:108-109)OthersanalysesGatsby’stragedy.WangYujuanarguesthat“thedreamofGatsbyisalsothedreamofallAmericans.ThedefeatofGatsbyi
5、salsothelossofthegeneration.”(WangYujuan,1998:28)Fromallresearchesbothdomesticandabroad,wecanseethatTheGreatGatsbyisagreatnovelthateveryonecanhavedifferentinterpretationfromdifferentaspects.However,afewresearcheshavestudiedaboutwhatruinedGatsby’sdreamandwhyhisdreaminevitablyfailed.Ther
6、efore,thispaperwillrevealtherootsandcausesofthefailureofGatsby’sdream.1.Thesignificanceofyourresearch:Scott.FitzgeraldisaprominentnovelistintheAmericanliterature,ownedthetitleofthespokesmanoftheJazzAgeandthelaurelofpoet.Heisalsooneofthemostrepresentativewritersinthe“LostGeneration”TheG
7、reatGatsbystandsforhismasterpiece.TheGreatGatsbyhasassumedameaningmorethanaMereromanticlovestory.Actually,Gatsby’spursuitofhisdreamandhisfinaltragedyexemplifytoagreatextenttheendoftheillusoryAmericandream.Thenovelshowsavividpictureofthe1920swhenAmericaenteredtheshortbutunprecedentedl
