cqvip:As the spokesman of the Jazz Age,F.Scott Fitzgerald ,based on his own experience,writes his masterpiece-The Great Gatsby.Through abundant symbols,Fitzgerald profoundly depicts the social prospect of Jazz Age and successfully displays the process of the disillusionment of American Dream which exists in majority people in 1920s.This paper,based on some basic symbolic theories,discusses how the author brings the deep philosophy to the surface to show his attitude,to reveal the theme by these symbols.And by analyzing the symbolic meanings of some characters,it further probes some causes for the failure of American Dream and how the author pays attention to common human nature.
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