Author(s)

Yunru Yan

Corresponding Author

Yunru Yan

ABSTRACT

This paper takes the tragic characterization of Gatsby in Fitzgerald's work The Great Gatsby published in the 1920s as the focus, and explores how the youthful faith represented by Gatsby is disillusioned and reborn in the moral vacuum of money. When Gatsby's American dream is poured with too much effort and imagination, what he pursues no longer points to a figurative person but to a Platonic idealized concept, which is why Gatsby's tragedy shakes people's hearts.

KEYWORDS

Gatsby, American dream, Faith, Morality, Love