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1、APreliminaryAnalysisofGatsby'sFuneralintheGreatGatsbyIntroductionFrancisScottKeyFitzgeraldwhowasbornin1896anddiedin1940wasanauthorofnovelsandshortstoriesinAmerican.HecamefromapoorfamilyinSaintPaul,Minnesota.HeiswidelyregardedasoneofthegreatestAmericanwritersofthe20thcentury.Heis
2、alsoamemberofthe“LostGeneration”ofthe1920s.In1920,hisfirstnovelThisSideofParadisewaspublished,whichmadehimfamous.Later,hefinishedthreenovels,TheBeautifulandDamned,TenderIstheNightandTheGreatGatsby.Afifth,unfinishednovel,TheLastTycoonwaspublishedposthumously.Fitzgeraldalsowrotema
3、nyshortstories,likeFlappersandPhilosophers,TalesoftheJazzAgeandAlltheSadyoungMen.ButhismostfamousnovelwasTheGreatGatsby.ThepublicationofthisnoveldecidedhispositioninAmericanliterature,becauseitcriticizedtheupperclass’sselfishnessandperemptorinesslikeTom,andsuggestedthatthereason
4、sthatleadtoGatsby’stragedywerehisillusionaboutlifeandloveandthelackofcognitionabouttheupperclass.Inthisnovel,theauthorsuccessfullymoldedanambitiousbutinnocentfigureGatsby.“FitzgeraldwasoneofthegreatstylistsinAmericanliterature.T.S.EliotreadTheGreatGatsbythreetimesandconcludedtha
5、titwas‘thefirststepthatAmericanfictionhastakensinceHenryJames’”(ChangYaoxing,1990:292)ThisessaywillanalyzeGatsby’sfuneralfromtheperspectiveofhumanity,loveandfriendship.Gatsbyisapersonwholivedaluxuriouslifebeforehisdeath.Butwhenhedied,peoplerefusedtocometohisfuneral,whichreflecte
6、dpeople’sindifferenceandcoldness.Daisythathelovedforhislifetimeescapedwithherhusband.Nickwastheonlyonethatlefttoarrangeeverything.Thepaperconsistsoffiveparts.Thefirstpartbrieflyintroducestheauthorandthenovel.ThesecondpartwillintroducethesocialbackgroundandmaincontentoftheGreatGa
7、tsby,thesimilaritiesofFitzgerald'sandGatsby'slife.ThethirdpartanalyzesGatsby’sfuneral.ItdiscussesthosepeoplewhocometoseeGatsbybeforehewasinterredandtheconclusionofthehomicidetrial.ItespeciallymentionedGatsby’sfather.Thefourthpartdiscusseshumanity,loveandfriendshipreflectedfromhi
8、sfuneral.Thelastpartcomestotheconclusion.Accord
