The Interpretation of the Narrative Mode in "The Great Gatsby"

DOI

10.2991/icemet-16.2016.290How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Narration in The Great Gatsby; Inner-focus mode; Perfect-focus mode; External-focus mode

Abstract

The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's masterpiece. The distinctive narrative techniques in his work attract many literary critics' attention. Based on the characters' experiences in The Great Gatsby, this paper presents narrative mode of this novel, which takes the inner-focus narration as the primary one and is complemented with diverse narrative modes, such as appropriate perfect-focus narration and external-focus narration. That manifests characters' traits and inner world deeply, portrays characters preferably and deepens the theme.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Linlin Guo
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Economy, Management and Education Technology
PB  - Atlantis Press
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