| When we mention Scott Fitzgerald, the America "Jazz Age" will immediately comeinto our minds. His works always contains the tone of fair-weather friends to eat and drinkwith as well as the sound of the copper, while his protagonists tend to have a pure heart. Sopeople say,"As a novelist, he born more torment of the pain from the interaction of moneyand love than others".Tender is the night--a9-year meticulous work by Fitzgerald was condensed with hisreflection of dream, money and love in life. Fitzgerald found the road of life for us throughthe protagonist Dick. When destiny forced you in the edge position and made youexperience the life of a marginal man, probably you will turn through "verdurous glooms onwinding mossy ways ". Looking up into the light in the breeze, we know that there is amossy winding path, and we have no choice but to move on. The article expounds this topicin three parts. First, the article expounds Dick’s identity of a marginal man on themarginalization theory. Then it expounds Dick’s experience on the edge of life. Dicksurvived under the cultural differences circumstance and lived in the dual contradiction. Hislonely reflection showed his mental predicament. Finally, facing the edge of life, Dick’s waywas not "assimilation","balance" or "return", but to choose another way called "beyond" inwhich being himself to overcome the status of a marginal man."Verdurous glooms onwinding mossy ways " is the unique life of Dick. |
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