分析《夜色溫柔》中迪克的夢的墜落

摘    要

《夜色溫柔》是美國著名作家菲斯杰拉德最有影響力的作品之一，它具有明顯的自傳色彩，為我們研究菲斯杰拉德的思想和內心提供了寶貴的資料。《夜色溫柔》同時也反映了爵士時代背景下美國人對美國夢的追求,以及他們對由于追求財富和享樂錯誤價值觀導致的嚴重后果的反思。

本文從主人公迪克·戴佛對于人生、婚姻以及理想上的迷茫困惑三個方面，講述迪克從年輕有為，意氣奮發到一蹶不振最終走向墮落，導致夢想破滅的全過程。說明在拜金主義社會影響下，金錢對人性的毀滅，以及個人理想在現實面前的單薄，揭示了爵士時代美國人扭曲的價值觀，最終讓人誤入歧途。與以往觀點不同，本文從另一個角度分析迪克·戴佛墮落的必然性，重點強調導致迪克墮落的兩個主要矛盾，說明個人價值觀與社會間的沖突，階級之間的金錢物質觀的沖突。

關鍵詞：迪克·戴佛；墮落的必然性；迷茫；夢想的破滅

Abstract

Tender Is the Night is considered to be one of the most remarkable works by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Its autographic style offers precious materials to study Fitzgerald. Meanwhile, Tender is the Night depicts the pursuit of American dream under the background of jazz age, and it is the reflection of American false values of wealth and pleasures which lead to bad consequences.

By analyzing Dick Diver’s bewilderment in life, marriage and idealism, the paper mainly narrates the process that Dick Diver’s transition from young ambitious psychologist to the final tragic and the inevitability of Dick Diver’s degeneration, revealing that under the influence of money worship, money destroys humanity, reality suppresses individual’s dream, and American distorted value in the jazz age makes people go astray and leads them to ultimate destruction. Different from previous studies, the present paper concerns itself with a detailed study of Dick Diver’s inevitable degeneration from relatively new perspective. It aims to emphasize the importance of two main conflicts, highlighting the gaps between individual values and the society, and the concept of material wealth of different social classes.

Key words: Dick Diver; inevitability of degeneration; bewilderment; disillusionment

Contents

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Abstract in English

Introduction1

Chapter One The Seed of Degenerations3

A. Merits of Dick3

B. The Weakness of Dick4

C. The Fate of the Change5

Chapter Two The Inevitability of the Degeneration of Dick6

A. The Indulgent Life of Dick6

B. The Bafflement of Marriage7

C. The Bafflement of the Idealism7

Chapter Three Disillusionment of American Dream9

A. The Conflict between Upper Class’s Material Life and Dick’s Values9

B. Social Values vs. Individual Values.10

C. The Influence of Degenerated Age.12

Conclusion14

Notes...................................................................................i

Bibliography.ii 

Acknowledgements..........................iii