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1、APreliminaryAnalysisofGatsby'sFuneralintheGreatGatsbyIntroductionFrancisScottKeyFitzgeraldwhowasbornin1896anddiedin1940wasanauthorofnovelsandshortstoriesinAmerican.HecamefromapoorfamilyinSaintPaul,Minnesota.HeiswidelyregardedasoneofthegreatestAmericanwritersofthe20thcentury.Heisalsoamemberofth
2、e“LostGeneration”ofthe1920s.In1920,hisfirstnovelThisSideofParadisewaspublished,whichmadehimfamous.Later,hefinishedthreenovels,TheBeautifulandDamned,TenderIstheNightandTheGreatGatsby.Afifth,unfinishednovel,TheLastTycoonwaspublishedposthumously.Fitzgeraldalsowrotemanyshortstories,likeFlappersand
3、Philosophers,TalesoftheJazzAgeandAlltheSadyoungMen.ButhismostfamousnovelwasTheGreatGatsby.ThepublicationofthisnoveldecidedhispositioninAmericanliterature,becauseitcriticizedtheupperclass’sselfishnessandperemptorinesslikeTom,andsuggestedthatthereasonsthatleadtoGatsby’stragedywerehisillusionabou
4、tlifeandloveandthelackofcognitionabouttheupperclass.Inthisnovel,theauthorsuccessfullymoldedanambitiousbutinnocentfigureGatsby.“FitzgeraldwasoneofthegreatstylistsinAmericanliterature.T.S.EliotreadTheGreatGatsbythreetimesandconcludedthatitwas‘thefirststepthatAmericanfictionhastakensinceHenryJame
5、s’”(ChangYaoxing,1990:292)ThisessaywillanalyzeGatsby’sfuneralfromtheperspectiveofhumanity,loveandfriendship.Gatsbyisapersonwholivedaluxuriouslifebeforehisdeath.Butwhenhedied,peoplerefusedtocometohisfuneral,whichreflectedpeople’sindifferenceandcoldness.Daisythathelovedforhislifetimeescapedwithh
6、erhusband.Nickwastheonlyonethatlefttoarrangeeverything.Thepaperconsistsoffiveparts.Thefirstpartbrieflyintroducestheauthorandthenovel.ThesecondpartwillintroducethesocialbackgroundandmaincontentoftheGreatGatsby,thesimilaritiesofFitzgerald'sandGatsby'slife.ThethirdpartanalyzesGatsby’sfuneral.Itdi
7、scussesthosepeoplewhocometoseeGatsbybeforehewasinterredandtheconclusionofthehomicidetrial.ItespeciallymentionedGatsby’sfather.Thefourthpartdiscusseshumanity,loveandfriendshipreflectedfromhisfuneral.Thelastpartcomestotheconclusion.Accord
