The Spiritual Wasteland Intertwined with colors in The Great Gatsby  

作　　者：张重涵 

机构地区：[1]贵州师范大学外国语学院

出　　处：《校园英语》2019年第1期255-256,共2页English On Campus

摘　　要：The Great Gatsby is the most excellent work of Fitzgerald and it is one of the most important classic novel of American literature.The Great Gatsby is hailed as a prose version of Eliot’s “The Waste Land” in which Fitzgerald displays the Americ an society in that time of wasteland with an abundant descrip tion of colors and symbolism.Under the veil of the wealthy life lies a spiritual wasteland full of desperation and death.The colors of gray,white,yellow,and green are the most dominating ones,which are intertwined with the main character and plots in this novel.This paper,will explores the spiritual wasteland of that age through the employment of color and its symbolism.The Great Gatsby is the most excellent work of Fitzgerald and it is one of the most important classic novel of American literature. The Great Gatsby is hailed as a prose version of Eliot’s "The Waste Land" in which Fitzgerald displays the American society in that time of wasteland with an abundant description of colors and symbolism. Under the veil of the wealthy life lies a spiritual wasteland full of desperation and death. The colors of gray, white, yellow, and green are the most dominating ones, which are intertwined with the main character and plots in this novel. This paper, will explores the spiritual wasteland of that age through the employment of color and its symbolism.

关 键 词：The GREAT GATSBY SPIRITUAL WASTELAND color SYMBOLISM 

分 类 号：G43[文化科学—教育学]