【正文】 this novel are the relations between Benjamin and his father, wife and son. In America, the respect, love and independence among people are very important. However, Benjamin was in a rejecting and blaming situation. His father could not treat him as a son。 nevertheless, he surrendered to the money society and died in tragedy. The generation of American Dream had its own specific history background. Its origin could date back to the time when a great number of European immigrants came to this land. They had strong desire to get freedom and equality. Besides, some people who were Puritans held lofty ideality. They built up from nothing and worked independently. During the process of adapting to and fighting with the nature as well as the Britain colonists, a kind of American spirit gradually was formed. However, these immigrants did not form an “American Dream” with mon characteristics. Some of them were to get rid of the persecution of the old world and build a “city upon a Hill” according to their own beliefs. Some of them were to look for an uncultivated land to realize their own political and economic purpose. Some of them were to make money and seek the legendary market. Most people wanted to cast off the poor life in their hometown. For a long time, all of them were different people with different nationalities and traditions: The English, the Dutch, the French, the Scotchmen and the Irishmen. Thus, from the beginning, the land of the United States was placed many hopes and dreams. The rich resource without the owners and the rugged but broad environment made a result that the background of family and the social status were not the actual significance. Therefore, every believed that they are equal. The American dream is an iconic expression of American’s optimistic attitude towards life, an affirmation on human’s capacity of realizing the unlimited possibilities of existence. Although up till now, there is no fixed definition or exact expression to explain this term, some traces correlated to its meaning in many sources can be found. In Made in America: SelfStyled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey, Jeffrey Louis Decker wrote of the origin of the term the “American dream.” He states that “the term was not put into print until 1931, when middlebrow historian James Truslow Adams coined and used it throughout the pages of a book titled The 3 Epic of America”.1 Adams held that “The American dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. The American dream is to be understood as an ethical doctrine that is symptomatic of a crisis in national identity during the thirties. The newly invented dream calls out for a supplement to the outmoded narrative of individual uplift, which had lost its moral capacity to guide the nation during the Depression”2 American dream is a phenomenon that only America has. The American history is also the American dream. From the civil war to the early twentieth Century, American economy was in the highspeed development. But the economic development did not bring that Americans39。 【關(guān)鍵詞 】 菲茨杰拉德 《本杰明?巴頓的人生奇旅》 美國夢 v Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………… 1 Chapter One Human Relations……… ………………………………………… ....5 A. Relation Between Benjamin and His Father……………………………… ...5 B. Relation Between Benjamin and His Wife………………………………… ..6 C. Relation Between Benjamin and His Son………………………………… ...8 Chapter Two Honorable Reputation……………………………………… … .… 10 A. The Breaking of Roger Button’s Reputation……………………………… ..10 B. The Breaking of Benjamin Button’s Reputation…………………………… 11 C. The Breaking of Hildegarde Moncrief’s Reputation……………………… ..13 Chapter Three American Dream………………………………… …………… ...15 A. The Breaking of American Dream in Roger Button’s View……………… ..15 B. The Breaking of American Dream in Benjamin Button’s View…………… .16 C. The Thought of Life from the Breaking of American Dream……………… 17 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………… ...20 Notes………………………………………………………………………………… 21 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………… ...22 1 Introduction The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is one of the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940). In 1922, Fitzgerald published Tales of the Jazz Age, including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Although The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is not the most famous fiction of Fitzgerald, it shows the breaking of American dream, just as his other famous long stories, such as, The Side of Paradise (1920), The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934). Fitzgerald was born in a merchant family on September 24th, 1986. His ancestries were very rich。本文共分為三章 。他的一生 都是越活越年輕。巴頓的人生奇旅》是 菲茨杰拉德 最著名的短片小說之一。菲茨杰拉德是美國 20 世紀著名的小說家。 the concept of family techniques of Fitzgerald39。 self and society。 指 導(dǎo) 教 師 評 語 年 月 日 指 導(dǎo) 教 師 職稱 初評成績 答辯小組 姓名 職稱 教研室 組長 成員 答辯記錄： 記錄人簽字： 年 月 日 答辯小組意見： 組長簽字： 年 月 日 學(xué)院意見： 評定成績： 簽章 年 月 日 河北師范大學(xué)本科生畢業(yè)論文 文獻綜述 Literature Review F. Scott Fitzgerald is a wellknown American novelist for his great contribution to the American literature in the 1920s. Hemingway once re