The Analysis of the tragic reality of The Great Gatsby

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.

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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  - Jinxuan Jiang
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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
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