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Discussion on Person Destruction under Jazz Age with References to the “The Great Gatsby”

Yudie Guo, Feng Yin

Abstract


Fitzgerald created a semi autobiographical novel "The Great Gatsby" in the "Jazz Age" in the United States, in which he depicted the innocent and persistent main character Gatsby, his good friend Nick, and his beloved woman Daisy. Under the fancy"Jazz Age", the degenerate life and the distorted dark humanity of the upper class people are fully exposed, while Gatsby is like a dramatized character. He is born in a poor family, and tries to enter the upper class after accumulating a certain wealth and he is desperate to get recognition. However, all of his effort ends with a tragic fate. This paper is going to reveal the tragedy of "Jazz Age" from the analysis of the three main characters and Gatsby’s personal destruction.

Keywords


The Great Gatsby; Jazz Age; Destruction; Tragedy

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v4i4.2137

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