Economic Dynamics and Consumer Culture in The Great Gatsby  

作　　者：ZHANG Cong-wen XIAO Ming-wen 

机构地区：[1]School of Foreign Languages,Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou 510220,China

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2022年第10期968-980,共13页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

基　　金：funded by by the research project:Innovative Training Program for College Students of Sun Yat-sen University,“Economic Writing in American Literature of the 20th Century”(202210156)。

摘　　要：It is generally believed that the initiative in the interdisciplinary study of literature and economy comes from the literary world,and The Great Gatsby by the American author F.Scott Fitzgerald is a case in point.The novel narrates the experience of Americans’pursuit of the American Dream in the 1920s,truthfully reflecting the economic and social conditions at that time.This paper analyses the economic dynamics and consumer culture represented in the novel.It approaches the prevailing consumer culture and the American Dream motif from the perspectives of money,status and love.It also examines how automobiles,as a new means of transportation,meet the needs of post-WWI Americans for efficient travel and conspicuous consumption.

关 键 词：The Great Gatsby literature and economy CONSUMERISM American dream automobiles 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]