The Analysis of the tragic reality of The Great Gatsby
Authors
Jinxuan Jiang
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Jinxuan Jiang
Available Online July 2019.
- DOI
- 10.2991/ichssd-19.2019.95How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Reality, tragedy, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby, Daisy.
- Abstract
After World War One, the economy in the United States boomed and flourished. People became obsessed with material and thus made money as their first goal of achievement. The story was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the background of the society, which depicted the lives of riches and the dream of most Americans at the time period. The characters in the story reflected the ideas prevailed in the society.This paper will analyze the typical characters in the story based on the influence of the American society after the first World War.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Jinxuan Jiang PY - 2019/07 DA - 2019/07 TI - The Analysis of the tragic reality of The Great Gatsby BT - Proceedings of the 2019 4th International Conference on Humanities Science and Society Development (ICHSSD 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 471 EP - 475 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ichssd-19.2019.95 DO - 10.2991/ichssd-19.2019.95 ID - Jiang2019/07 ER -