3.1.2 Gatsby——ego
Ego is separated from id. And it suffered realistic cultivation so that it can be sensitive generally. It can gain the satisfaction and prevent from pain according to the “reality principle”. The name of “Gatsby”, which also can be explained as “by gate”. He is near the gate, but he can’t enter. This name can also symbolize that Gatsby wants to realize his American dream, but failed eventually. During the 1920s in America, Pursuing fortune and enjoyment became people’s fashion. Gatsby wanted to pursue this kind of “American dream”. His “American dream” includes “fortune”, “status” and “romance”. Gatsby was born in a poor farmer family, his parents accomplished nothing. Especially when he couldn’t marry his loved girls because …show more content…
He felt that if there was no meaningful prospect towards life or no firm beliefs towards dreams, life would be unbearable. ” The comment from Fitzgerald about dream showed inner world of modern American even though the purpose of American dream was small and wretched constantly. Faced to the cruel reality, many people got difficulties again and again. Nevertheless, there still had many people confirmed their different kinds of dreams. Consequently, American dream was an indispensible ideal in American society even though it couldn’t come true eventually to some …show more content…
And it penetrated on every aspect, from external appearance to inner spiritual world. On the grounds that Fitzgerald had the similar sorrowful experience to the Gatsby at that time, he felt angry about this time. So he wrote the angry of this period in his masterpiece, then the Great Gatsby produced. It reflects the disillusion of American dream in 1920s profoundly, presented the spiritual appearance of upper class people in the Great Depression. His life experience and works can prove that he is the representative of Jazz Age. He had the successful and delight side, he also had the pained and frustrated side. He was called “authority of failure”. All his life includes ambition and reality, success and failure, enjoyment and frustration, romance and pain, conflict between America civilization and Europe civilization, conflict between the east and the west. All of it has fully demonstrated in the Great
Ego is separated from id. And it suffered realistic cultivation so that it can be sensitive generally. It can gain the satisfaction and prevent from pain according to the “reality principle”. The name of “Gatsby”, which also can be explained as “by gate”. He is near the gate, but he can’t enter. This name can also symbolize that Gatsby wants to realize his American dream, but failed eventually. During the 1920s in America, Pursuing fortune and enjoyment became people’s fashion. Gatsby wanted to pursue this kind of “American dream”. His “American dream” includes “fortune”, “status” and “romance”. Gatsby was born in a poor farmer family, his parents accomplished nothing. Especially when he couldn’t marry his loved girls because …show more content…
He felt that if there was no meaningful prospect towards life or no firm beliefs towards dreams, life would be unbearable. ” The comment from Fitzgerald about dream showed inner world of modern American even though the purpose of American dream was small and wretched constantly. Faced to the cruel reality, many people got difficulties again and again. Nevertheless, there still had many people confirmed their different kinds of dreams. Consequently, American dream was an indispensible ideal in American society even though it couldn’t come true eventually to some …show more content…
And it penetrated on every aspect, from external appearance to inner spiritual world. On the grounds that Fitzgerald had the similar sorrowful experience to the Gatsby at that time, he felt angry about this time. So he wrote the angry of this period in his masterpiece, then the Great Gatsby produced. It reflects the disillusion of American dream in 1920s profoundly, presented the spiritual appearance of upper class people in the Great Depression. His life experience and works can prove that he is the representative of Jazz Age. He had the successful and delight side, he also had the pained and frustrated side. He was called “authority of failure”. All his life includes ambition and reality, success and failure, enjoyment and frustration, romance and pain, conflict between America civilization and Europe civilization, conflict between the east and the west. All of it has fully demonstrated in the Great