Existential Interpretation of The Great Gatsby

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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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shuhua Hou
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/08
TI  - Existential Interpretation of The Great Gatsby
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 172
EP  - 175
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220401.035
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220401.035
ID  - Hou2022
ER  -