The Interpretation of The Great Gatsby from the Perspective of Existentialism

DOI

10.2991/icmess-18.2018.287How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Existentialism; Self-value; Absurdity; Choice of freedom

Abstract

Scott Fitzgerald, American writer, is the spokesman of the “Jazz Age” and the representative writer of the “lost generation” in the 1920s. His masterpiece The Great Gatsby leaves an impressive mark in the history of American literature. The paper tries to analyze the protagonist Gatsby from the perspective of existentialism through the close reading. The human beings can be allowed and respected by choosing to live a free and wonderful life in order to confront the ugly and weird universe, however, they have to accept its consequence afterwards. To study the work from the view of existentialism, people can figure out how to realize their self-value and to live a manful life.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qing Chang
AU  - Shuhua Li
PY  - 2018/06
DA  - 2018/06
TI  - The Interpretation of The Great Gatsby from the Perspective of Existentialism
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Management, Education and Social Science (ICMESS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1301
EP  - 1303
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icmess-18.2018.287
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