了不起的盖茨比的象征主义英语论文

了不起的盖茨比中的绿光是什么

它是盖茨比梦想中的360问答黛西的象征，它既是盖茨比生倍手创也土总述更活的导航灯，让他感到希望的实现龙菜工歌手烟香应备守映似乎近在眼前、唾手可得，可是又闪外坚闪烁烁、渺茫如仙境，可望而不可及。

白色，黛西喜欢穿白色衣裙，开白色小免否伟视迅本赵跑车，盖茨比与尼克拜访黛西时，盖茨比也是常常身着白色西装，他一手营造的豪华宫殿也是迷梦般的白色。

白色是一种美丽题否推温吸卷决而恐怖的颜色，它可以象征纯洁，也可以象征颓丧；可以象映征单纯，也可以象征空虚；可以象征高贵，却义显得飘渺、虚幻甚至虚假；它是白银的颜色，这使得一切白色的东西常常与金钱纠缠不清，更显得污浊肮脏。

象征作为一种艺术表现手法，在小可程川神法婷史国衡说创作中旨在展示隐匿在看得见的取十背查小校事物、现象背后的看不见的思想，即展示事物背后的心灵隐秘和理念。《了不起的盖茨比》中运用了大量的象征手法，许多事物都有深远的象征意义。绿色在东西方文化中都象征着万物复苏的颜色，象征着生命力和希望怀犯场宜确三频兰。所以绿灯本身象征着盖茨比的梦想和希望，也象征着“美国梦”。

菲茨杰拉德在《了不起的盖茨比》中运用了大量的象征手雨触治曲台读轴仅术基法，本文主要分析了凯小说中三次出现的绿灯的象征意义。绿灯第一次象征着盖茨比一生想追求的梦想以及爵士时代人们追求的“美国梦”。

第二次象征着盖茨比梦想的幻灭，也象征的“美协黑含广序北生慢弦国梦”在拜金主义和享乐主义的腐蚀下已经变质了，人们追求着变质的“美国梦”。

第三次象征着盖茨比梦想的最初含义，盖茨比不愿意像其他人一样醉生梦死群如殖地追求变质的“美国梦”，仍然坚或突策孩持初心，最终变成了爵士时代“美国梦”的牺牲品。

《了不起的盖茨比》中绿灯三次不同的象征意义代表着盖茨比不同的切己待每层留剧守病效善心境，为小说主人公的性格特征和小说主题的呈现起着重要的作用。

内容简介：

尼克波赵从中西部故乡来到纽约，在他住所旁边正是本书主人公盖茨比的豪华宅第。这里每晚都在举行盛大的宴会。尼克和盖茨比相识，故事就这样开始了。 尼克对盖茨比充满探究的兴趣。探究的结果是：尼克了解到盖茨比内心深处有一段不了之情。

年轻时的盖茨比并不富有，他是一个少校军官。他爱上了一位叫黛茜的姑娘，黛茜对他也情有所钟。后来第一次世界大战爆发，盖茨比被调往欧洲。似是偶然却也是必然，黛茜因此和他分手，转而与一个出身于富豪家庭的纨绔子弟汤姆结了婚。

黛茜婚后的生活并不幸福，因为汤姆另有情妇。物欲的满足并不能填补黛茜精神上的空虚。盖茨比痛苦万分，他坚信是金钱让黛茜背叛了心灵的贞洁，于是立志要成为富翁。几年以后，盖茨比终于成功了。他在黛茜府邸的对面建造起了一幢大厦。盖茨比挥金如土，彻夜笙箫，一心想引起黛茜的注意，以挽回失去的爱情。

尼克为盖茨比的痴情所感动，便去拜访久不联系的远房表妹黛茜，并向她转达盖茨比的心意。黛茜在与盖茨比相会中时时有意挑逗。盖茨比昏昏然听她随意摆布，并且天真地以为那段不了情有了如愿的结局。然而真正的悲剧却在此时悄悄启幕。黛茜早已不是旧日的黛茜。黛茜不过将她俩的暖昧关系，当做一种刺激。

尼克终于有所察觉，但为时已晚。一次黛茜在心绪烦乱的状态下开车，偏偏轧死了丈夫的情妇。盖茨比为保护黛茜，承担了开车责任，但黛茜已打定主意抛弃盖茨比。在汤姆的挑拨下，致使其情妇的丈夫开枪打死了盖茨比。盖茨比最终彻底成为了牺牲品。盖茨比至死都没有发现黛茜脸上嘲弄的微笑。

盖茨比的悲剧在于他把一切都献给了自己编织的美丽梦想，而黛茜作为他理想的化身，却只徒有美丽的躯壳。尽管黛茜早已移情别恋，尽管他清楚地听出“她的声音充满了金钱”，却仍不改初衷，固执地追求重温旧梦。

人们在为盖茨比举行葬礼，黛茜和她丈夫此时却早已在欧洲旅行的路上。不了情终于有了了结。尼克目睹了人类现实的虚情寡义，深感厌恶，于是怀着一种悲剧的心情，远离喧嚣、冷漠、空洞、虚假的大都市，黯然回到故乡。

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第一次提到绿灯是在第一章： “他（盖茨比）突然做了一个动作，仿佛在暗示他正沉浸于独处中――他用一种奇怪的方式朝着幽暗的海水伸出双臂，尽管离我很远，但我敢肯定他的发抖。我不由地朝海面望去，那里除了一盏绿灯，什么也没有。它渺小而遥远，或许是在码头的尽头。”

第一次出现的绿灯，作者并没有指明绿灯的位置，只知道盖茨比以一种奇怪的方式伸出双臂，想要触摸到。盖茨比看上去几乎是沉浸在某种神秘的仪式当中，那样子就像是一个圣坛前的顶礼膜拜者。

这盏绿灯给他指引方向，他虔诚地朝着这个方向奋斗，梦想着某一天能触摸到这盏绿灯。但是这盏绿灯既渺小又遥远，这象征着盖茨比的梦想其实并不容易实现，就像是海市蜃楼，可望不可即。

这盏绿灯对盖茨比的意义也象征着“美国梦”对整个美国人的意义。在爵士时代，由于二战后经济和社会迅速发展，人们盲目地乐观着，追求着其实遥远而又渺小的梦想。

第二次提到绿灯是在第五章： “要不是因为有雾，我们就能看到海湾对面你的家。”盖茨比说，“你那边码头的尽头总有一盏通宵不灭的绿灯。”黛西蓦地挽住他的手臂，但他似乎还沉浸在刚才那句话中，或许是因为他突然想到，那盏灯的重大意义从此永远消失了……可现在，它又只是码头上的一盏绿灯而已了。

这一次提到绿灯，也说明了绿灯的位置，其实就是黛西住宅处的绿灯，让读者明白盖茨比心中的绿灯具体象征着黛西。在没有再一次见到黛西时，盖茨比心中黛西的形象仍然停留在十几年前。那时的黛西美丽，单纯，就正如那一盏纯粹的绿灯，盖茨比如朝圣者般虔诚地希望得到她。

当再一次接触黛西时，盖茨比才发现其实黛西早已不是想象的那个黛西；这时的黛西拜金，现实，自私。盖茨比发现自己的梦想实际远没有想象的那么美好。所以绿灯所象征着的梦想和希望的“重大意义从此永远消失”，变成了“码头上的一站绿灯而已了”。

第二次提到的绿灯象征着盖茨比追求的梦想失去意义，同时也象征着“美国梦”所蕴含的美好失去意义。爵士时代的美国人同盖茨比追求绿灯般追求着“美国梦”，而最终同样也会像盖茨比一样发现梦想的意义消失不见。

第三次提到绿灯是在最后一章： 我也可以体会到盖茨比第一次认出黛西家码头尽处那盏绿灯时有多么惊奇。他走过漫漫长路才来到这片碧绿的草坪上，他的梦想似乎近乎在眼前，触手可及。他无从知晓，这梦想早已离他远去…… 盖茨比一生的信念就寄托在这盏绿灯上，这个一年一年在我们眼前渐渐远去的极乐未来。

第三次提到绿灯作者又恢复了绿灯代表梦想的象征意义。其实不是盖茨比放弃追求自己的梦想，而是梦想抛弃了他，早已“离他远去”。整个社会包括梦想本身都被爵士时代的享乐主义和拜金主义所改变，人们变得物质至上，利益熏心。

所谓的“美国梦”也变了质，人们追求变质的“美国梦”结局一定是失败的。而只有盖茨比始终没有放弃追求最初的那盏绿灯，那个没有变质的梦想。

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An Analysis of Gatsby’s Success and Failure

An Analysis of Gatsby’s Success and Failure
Summary: Why Gatsby failed to achieve Daisy? To some extent, it may be a tragedy of society and Jay Gatsby’s fault. He was born and grew up in an era of decayed social and moral value. Further more, he can’t know himself and others distinctly
Jay Gatsby was born in rural north Dakota and spent his childhood there. Because he grew up in the rural area,as usual he could bear trouble and difficulty in his life. But he was not of that kind of poor children. From his early youth, Gatsby despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication. He dropped out of St.olaf College after two weeks, Because he couldn’t bear the tiring and difficult job with which he was paying his tuition. He was hunger for wealth ,but he just had the desire which didn’t work.
The year after he dropped out, he worked on Lake Superior fishing for salmon and digging for clams. One day, he saw a yacht owned by Dan Cody who was a wealthy copper mogul and rowed out to warn him about a coming storm. The grateful Cody took young Gtz, who gave his name as Jay Gatsby. On board, Gatsby worked as Cody’s personal assistant. Traveling with Cody to the Barbary Coast and the West. At that time ,Gatsby fell love with wealth and luxury. When Cody died, he left Gatsby $25,000. But Cody’s mistress prevented him from claiming his inheritance. Gatsby then dedicated himself to becoming a wealthy and successful man. At the same time ,he had gained the skills of making money which was vital to his success, However, his poor background and exorbitant desire for wealth and success were obstacles to him.
After World War I ,the generation of young Americans who had fought the war became intensely disillusioned, as the brutal carnage that had just faced made the Victorian social morality of early-twentieth-century America like stuffy. The dizzying rise of the social market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden, sustained increase in the national wealth and a newfound materialism, as people began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels. A person from any social background could, Potentially, make a fortune, but the American aristocracy-families with old wealth-scorned the newly rich industrialists and speculators. Additionally, the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919,which banned the sale of alcohol, created a thriving underworld designed to satisfy the massive demand of bootleg liquor among rich and poor alike.
The ban was both opportunity and challenge to Gatsby, He could make money through illegal way, Of course, he could make money through legal way with his intelligence. Unfortunately, he was influenced by the society, the way he chose was illegal which coursed his failure, because it was impossible for him to step on the ranking society which was what Daisy pursued.
At first, he couldn’t know himself completely. He lacked of self-confidence, he changed his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby. He held every Saturday night Party to show his wealth, he lied to Daisy about his own background. He didn’t believe in himself. However, he had enough faith in his beautiful dream, which made him seem confident. He was just like a religious man, he believed in future not now and himself. He could make so much money, which proved that he is a man of great ability and capacity, he could be an successful man and achieve Daisy’s love, because he is great. But he did realize this.
He also didn’t know Daisy well, Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville , Kentucky. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, but in 1919 she chose instead to marry Tom Buchanan ,a young man from a solid , aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle and who had the support of her parents, from the novel , Daisy was a woman who couldn’t bear lonesome and loneness. She betrayed Gatsby, the love between Gatsby and Daisy couldn’t be tested by time.
To Gatsby, Daisy represents the paragon of perfection –she has the aura of charm, wealth, so sophistication, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota and that attracted him to her. In reality, She is beautiful and charming , but also fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic. She was even indifferent to her own infant daughter. She said “I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” Daisy wasn’t worthwhile to love, Gatsby didn’t know what Daisy wanted most, Daisy wanted social position which wealthy Gatsby couldn’t offer.
Giving up is a kind of beauty and happiness which Gatsby couldn’t understand, he just look at one goal firmly ignoring too many beauties, he didn’t know the value of life, What he wanted might destroy the family of Tom and Daisy, which is not fair to Daisy’s daughter.
Through Gatsby’s experience, Gatsby is a successful man. In the end, he is a failure. We had some idea on how to achieve success. There is a Chinese motto that to know yourself and your enemy is the key success. Maybe this is the best conclusion and for Gatsby’s tragedy.