将盖茨比的梦想定位为变质的美国梦主要从以下三方面体现：首先是道德感的沦丧，其次是奋斗目标的不明确，最后则是来自社会环境对他的影响。盖茨比为了利益可以抛弃一切道德的...

富兰克林式的美国梦除了强调勤奋努力的作用外，还深受宗教影响，想要达成梦想，除了要求人勤奋努力地学习和工作外，还有为人正义、节俭，行事有计划等道德品质方面的要求。这...

舍伍德·安德森是20世纪早期美国著名的小说家，《鸡蛋的胜利》是其同名短篇小说集中最优秀的一篇。该小说以“我”一个孩子的视角，讲述渴望成功的父亲追求“美国梦”屡屡遭遇失...

F·Scott·Fitzgerald was a writer of great distinction and remarkable genius in the 1920s. His masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, epitomizes the social life of people in the Jazz age, including the experience of the author himself , demonstrat...

The critic Gerber once thought Dreiser is "the first American writer to describe our commercial and Instrumental modern world with his sincerity and dynamic, the first American writer to describe the alienation of human nature because of urb...

To sum up, through the analysis of Chinese mothers’ and the second-generation Chinese daughters’ different versions of American Dreams in the Joy Luck Club, there is no denying that American Dream takes different forms. For mothers, it i...

At the end of the novel, Fitzgerald also gives a hope to human society. The spirit returning of Nick, is a spirit victory giving up imaginary “dream”, a victory that human nature prevails against material nature finally. This victory lea...

This paper tries to analyze the roots of the disillusion of Gatsby’s dream by examining the essence of Gatsby’s dream, the potential destructiveness in Gatsby’s characters and the social-historical backgrounds leading to Gatsby’s tra...