《了不起的蓋茨比》中蓋茨比和黛茜的悲劇

1、 the tragedy of gatsby and daisy in the great gatsby abstract：the great gatsby is one of the best works of f.scott fitzgerald in both thought and art, which is universal. in order to describe the restlessness of the “l(fā)ost generation” in the “roaring twenties”, the author created several typical trag

2、ic characters. this paper focuses on the analysis of the tragic fates of two leading charactersgatsby and daisy. it aims to reveal despair and doom of men and women living in a society in which the unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpass the other more noble goals.簡介：了不起的蓋茨比一書無論在思想還是藝術(shù)方面來

3、說都是菲茨杰拉德最佳作品之一，這一點是為世人所知曉的。為了描述生活在喧囂的二十世紀的“迷惘的一代”，作者創(chuàng)造了一系列典型的悲劇人物。本片論文集中分析兩大主角蓋茨比和黛茜的悲劇命運。旨在揭示生活在一個欲望膨脹、享樂至上的社會里的人們的無限欲望和宿命。key words: the great gatsby; gatsby and daisy; tragedy關(guān)鍵詞：了不起的蓋茨比; 蓋茨比和黛茜；悲劇theoretical frameworkthere is no clear definition about the feminism, as the british author and crit

4、ical rebecca west remarks, “i myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is.” although it is hard to give a thorough definition, the core can be summed up as “men and women should be equal in economy, politics, and society.”it asserts that women and men should have equal access

5、to education, equal pay, better working conditions and females are unable to be free due to their financial dependence on males in society. it also tends to support women and men have an equal partnership in marriage. as virginia woolf said, “compared to men，women have material disadvantages. she al

6、so thinks that patriarchy is the root of inequality between men and women, or more specifically, women are dominated by men in society. she views patriarchy as dividing rights and privileges of gender, and as a result, women are oppressed and men are privileged (selden 125).1. introduction published

7、 in 1925, the great gatsby became an immediate classic and pushed its young author to a fame that he never again equaled. the novel is narrated in retrospect by a young man named nick caraway. he comes to new york city in spring of 1922 and becomes involved in the life of his neighbor at long island

8、, jay gatsby, a very rich man, who lives in a magnificent imitation french villa. gatsby reveals to nick, that he fell in love with nicks cousin daisy before the war. at that time he was too poor to marry her. then daisy married tom buchanan, a rich but boring man of good social position. determined

9、 to win his lost love back, gatsby engaged himself in bootlegging and other “shady” activities, thus becoming a millionaire. he holds dazzling parties every weekend in the hope of alluring the buchanans to come. they finally come and gatsby meets daisy again, only to find that the woman before him i

10、s not quite the ideal love of his dreams. a sense of loss and disillusionment comes over him. then daisy drives gatsbys car, hits and kills toms mistress, myrtle wilson. gatsby remains silent to protect daisy. however, tom tells myrtles husband wilson it is gatsby who kills his wife. wilson murders

11、gatsby and then commits suicide, and yet the buchanans escape.2. analysis of the leading characters tragedy 2.1. gatsbys tragedy without question, gatsbys tragedy is the most noticeable. his dream to win back daisys love is doomed to break. because at the very beginning, gatsbys love for daisy is pa

12、rtly based on the glamour he associates with the money, and he pursues her by becoming wealthy himself. when gatsby comes to daisys house the first time, he feels that “there was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant acti

13、vities taking place through its corridors, and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this years shining motorcars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered.” his passion for daisy blends with earlier desires for financial s

14、uccess going all the way back to the daily schedule he established as a boy. his dream is completely misguided. when they meet again, gatsby become a rich man who is still innocent, but the girldaisy he pursues merely becomes his empty imagination with symbolic meaning. so what gatsby wants is not r

15、eal daisy, but the daisy that figured, decorated and glorified in his imagination. this kind of imagination is beyond gatsbys ability and power, and it is also beyond the reality. in his heart, daisy is beautiful and innocent, and she represents all the merits in the upper class of america; in his m

16、emory, his love with daisy is an earthly paradise, which he is willing to sacrifice all his property and energy to reach. but the more beautiful his love dream is, the more unrealistic he is and the more tragic his fate will be. now in real life, daisy is but a vulgar capitalistic lady, whose prefer

17、ence for wealth is stronger than any love in her heart, because all her sentiments have become into cold money. just as gatsby once comments after their reunion, “her voice is full of money.” but he doesnt know, it is money that decorates daisy as a princess, and drives her away from the lives relat

18、ed with miscreant and insecurity. whats worse, in his whole life, he doesnt realize that the merits in the upper class he have been admired turns out to be his illusion. most tragically, he dies as a scapegoat at last, never aware of the unworthiness of seeking true love from the heart numbed by the

19、 dirty materialistic society. 2.2. daisys tragedy daisy is the key character in the novelthe avatar of gatsbys dream, and this just adds her tragedy. because as far as gatsbys concerned, she is more than a woman, but an object combined with his desires for success, money, beauty and love. “it excite

20、d him, too, that many men had already loved daisy, and it increased her value in his eyes.” in gatsbys eyes, daisy is like a valuable product which symbolizes the delight brought by luxury and others envy. after daisys marriage with tom, gatsby starts to make fortunes by illegal means so as to get b

21、ack daisy. its better to say gatsby aims to retake a precious possession he once owns in his youth than to say he wants to win back daisys love. daisys tragedy also lies in that she is the victim of the patriarchal family system and extreme materialistic society. when she is an innocent girl, her lo

22、ve is pure and fervent. she plans to see gatsby off when he is going to the overseas war. however, “she was effectually prevented, but she wasnt on speaking terms with her family for several weeks.” she tries to oppose her family and wait for gatsby, but the surroundings exhaust her courage. “she wa

23、s feeling the pressure of the world outside, and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.” the pressure forces her to shape her life immediately. before the marriage with tom, she receives gatsbys letter and she is “as drun

24、k as a monkey”, even throws away a string of pearls valued at 35.000 that tom sends her . but in the end she has no choice but to give in to the pressure of the cruel society. though her marriage life seems to be grand and abundant, she becomes mentally hollow and miserable. she tells nick: “she (he

25、r baby) was less than an hour old and tom was god knows where. i woke up out of the ether with utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. she told me it was a girl, and so i turned my head away and wept. all right, i said, im glad its a girl. and i hope shel

26、l be a fool thats the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool. ” after she suffers her husband toms aloofness and betrayal, she gradually turns cold inside out; even gatsbys love cant warm her. 3. conclusion in 1920s, as this novel the great gatsby published, the american economy soared. money was the only goal which can be achieved by any means. however, the unprecedented wealth brought void into americans mind. so 1920s was a time of gastronomy, a time without any belief, a t