On The Characters' Lostness Of Fitzgerald's Novel

Fitzgerald is the spokesman of The Jazz Age of 1920'and one of representative writers of The Lost Generation. The before research on Fitzgerald mostly discussed about the perplexity of characters'thoughts and fewer in-depth analysis is about the specific ideological content and its own characteristics of characters' lostness. This article discussed Fitzgerald's characters'lostness of their own features and tried to make supply explaination of the intension of The lost generation. This article mainly divided into four parts. The first part is on the source of characters'lossness. It is mainly on the shatter of the American Dream, the hardship of regressive belief and the growth puzzle. The second part is on the ideological feature of characters'lossness. It mainly discussed about the ideological content of characters'lossness from three respects, including the goal in life(the conflict between the romantice and the reality), the life attitudes(the dilemma between the sober and the intoxicated) and action selection(wandering of escape and struggle).The third part is on the features of characters' lostness by the compare of the characters of Fitzgerald's novel and the characters of other representative writers of The Lost Generation. The four part is on the art technique of representing the charaters'lostness. Fitzgerald paid more attention to the blend of modern text and traditional story. He used fuzzy of narrative, space account and systemic symbol and fully incarnated the lostness of characters.