【正文】 the pletion of my , I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my family and I am in trouble, they always encourage me greatly and help me am deeply inspired by their constant support and help and trust in me stimulate me to be a better AbstractFitzgerald is one of the most outstanding American novelists in the 20th Great Gatsby, which was elaborately created by him, is widely considered his finest thesis aims to analyze the character of Jay Gatsby, protagonist of this novel, and thus to further discuss how Gatsby’s character influences his author first briefly summarizes main content of this novel, introduces Fitzgerald’s personal experience and analyzes the writing background of this novel as well as the symbolic significance of its tragic the discussion parts, the author divides Gatsby39。s character into two aspects: the positive side and the negative each part, the author picks up two of the most typical features respectively and supports these arguments with examples and cited the author sums up what is demonstrated above and further expounds how Gatsby’s character influences his Words: Fitzgerald, Gatsby, Character Analysisii中文摘要菲茨杰拉德是20世紀(jì)美國(guó)最優(yōu)秀的小說家之一，《了不起的蓋茨比》則被廣泛認(rèn)為是他最優(yōu)秀的作品。作者首先簡(jiǎn)要地概括了小說的主要內(nèi)容，介紹了小說作者菲茨杰拉德的個(gè)人經(jīng)歷，分析了小說的創(chuàng)作背景以及小說悲劇結(jié)局的象征意義。各部分中，作者又分別挑選了最為強(qiáng)烈的兩種性格加以舉例論證和引用論證。關(guān)鍵詞：菲茨杰拉德，蓋茨比，性格分析iiiTable of ContentsAcknowledgements.......................................................................................................i Abstract in English......................................................................................................ii Abstract in Chinese.....................................................................................................iiiIntroduction..................................................................................................................1 Chapter One Duteous and Determined Gatsby.....................................................3 Chapter Two Illusory and Injudicious Gatsby.......................................................5 Conclusion....................................................................................................................7Works Cited..................................................................................................................9IntroductionFrancis Scott Fitzgerald was born in the year of is widely considered one of the most outstanding American writers of the 20th century, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz his literary career, he has posed four wellknown novels, which was entitled This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby as well as Tender Is the Love of the Last Tycoon, Fitzgerald’s fifth and unfinished novel, was published after his , The Great Gatsby is the most influential among all his still has a profound influence World War Ⅰ, American society enjoyed unprecedented level of the 1920s, Americans abandoned themselves to hold sumptuous parties and have a good moved their body with the rhythms of the jazz music and danced to the traditional Puritan morality and flourished new hedonism in this is the jazz age——a time of wonder, a time of art, a time of big spenders, but also a mockery of the time.(Fitzgerald, flyleaf)Under such historical background, The Great Gatsby came into summarize, The Great Gatsby is a story depicting the disillusion of American is told through the eyes of Nick Gatsby, a young man ing from rural North Dakota, is born in an impoverished peasant his persistent efforts, he bees an implausibly wealthy millionaire rather than a penniless his welldecorated mansion, he holds extravagant parties to show off his wealth and attract the golden beauty——Daisy, who once was Gatsby’s lover five years reunion and relove each other with the help of Gatsby’s mind, Daisy is a perfect lady with a pure and innocent , she is no longer the Daisy what she used to her charming appearance, it is just a body with stupid and selfish a traffic accident, Daisy has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom39。s husband, has mistaken Gatsby forthe hitandrun driver and even Myrtle’s secret several gunshots, George, a socalled lunatic ends both Gatsby’s and his own great Gatsby is a mirror, which vividly reflects Americans’ life of the jazz scenes of roaring crowd, extravagant parties and corrupt society are perfectly some extent, it also can be inferred that the Great Gatsby is the epitome of Fitzgerald’s both rise from impoverished families, they both fall in love with beauties ing from the upper class and they both end their lives in is well acknowledged that a man’s own character shapes his does reading through this novel, it’s hard to tell whether the protagonist Gatsby is a good guy or a bad many highlights do exist in his we have to admit that there are still a lot of dark sides in his order to analyze Gatsby’s character from an objective angle, the author divides his character into two aspects: the positive side and the negative are respectively studied in chapter one and chapter chapter one, a determined and duteous Gatsby will be presented in front of chapter two, an illusory and injudicious Gatsby also these two chapters, a large number of facts and theoretical arguments will be added to support the author’s the end of the thesis, it naturally es to a conclusion that it is Gatsby’s character that determined his and determination lea