20世纪,美国文学领域比较有威望的作家之一是弗朗西斯·司各特·菲茨杰拉德。在他短暂的生命中,共完成了170多部短篇小说和4部长篇作品。因菲茨杰拉德是“爵士时代”派别中的典型作家,其作品不管是在故事情节上,还是在表现形式上,都勇于创新,选择的题材和核心主题都具有比较突出的时代意味。小说主要描述了在腐败的社会生活中,战争后的青年一代追求梦想到梦想破灭的悲惨过程。该主题思想在菲茨杰拉德的长篇小说《夜色温柔》中得到了完全的 One of the more prestigious writers in American literature in the twentieth century was Francis Scott Fitzgerald. In his short life, he completed more than 170 short stories and 4 long-length works. Because Fitzgerald is a typical writer in the “Jazz Age” faction, his works have the courage to innovate both in the plot and in the form of expression. The subject and the core theme of his choice all have prominent times mean. The novel mainly describes the tragic process of pursuing dreams and ending shattering dreams in the corrupt social life of the post-war youth. The theme was felled in Fitzgerald’s novel Night Gentle