司各特·菲茨杰拉德(1896—1940)是“迷惘的一代”作家中最具代表性的小说家之一,也是“爵士时代”的代言人。《了不起的盖茨比》作为菲茨杰拉德的代表作,通过描写主人公盖茨比一生的生活经历,真实而震颤地刻画了“爵士乐时代”纸醉金迷、精神荒芜的生活状态,堪称一部反映美国战后精神危机和道德堕落的社会现实主义小说。菲茨杰拉德在勾勒社会道德和个人欲望、理想与现实、理智与情感之间的 Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the most representative novelists of the “lost generation” writer and the spokesman of “The Jazz Age.” As a masterpiece of Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby truly and treasively depicts the “jazz era” with a drowsy and lush life by describing the life experience of her hero Gatsby Department reflects the crisis of the United States after the war and moral degeneration of social realism novels. Fitzgerald in the outline of social ethics and personal desires, ideals and reality, between the rational and emotional