Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)

Existential Interpretation of The Great Gatsby

Authors
Shuhua Hou
The Open University of Sichuan
*Shuhua Hou. Email: lishahsh@163.com
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Shuhua Hou
Available Online 8 April 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220401.035How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Existentialism; Gatsby; Absurd world; Freedom of choice; Anxiety and fear
Abstract

The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald is a representative masterpiece of 1920s American “Jazz Age”. Since its publication in 1925, critics home and abroad commented this novel from various perspectives, such as new criticism, traditional historical and cultural criticism, biographical criticism, psychoanalysis, feminism, sexual studies, cultural studies and so on, which laid a good foundation for its review and research. This paper is devoted to interpreting The Great Gatsby from the perspective of existentialism to explore the tragic origin.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
8 April 2022
ISBN
978-94-6239-560-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220401.035How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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