Abstract The Great Gatsby established Fitzgerald’s status in American literature。 It has won worldwide acclaim since its publication。 Its excellent writing skill is one of the reasons that make it classic。 This essay is going to talk about its feature of impersonality based mainly on Flaubert and James’ opinions from the perspective of narratology, and analyze how this feature is embodied in this novel in terms of techniques and emotions。 In respect of techniques, the author’s relation to the narrator and the narrator’s relation to the story will be discussed separately, and in respect of emotions, the application of irony will be analyzed。 Finally, functions and problems that impersonality brings to this novel will be discussed。92002

Key words: The Great Gatsby; impersonality; author; narrator; irony

摘要《了不起的盖茨比》一书确立了菲茨杰拉德在美国文学史上的地位。该书自出版后便好评如潮，其独特的创作手法是其成为文学经典的原因之一。本文将主要根据福楼拜、詹姆斯等人对“非人格化”的提出，从叙事学角度分析小说中的“非人格化”特征，并从技巧和情感两方面入手探讨这一特征是如何体现的。在技巧方面，本文将分别分析作者与叙述者的关系、叙述者和故事的关系，在情感方面将会讨论反讽手法的运用。最后，本文将对“非人格化”特征对该小说起到的作用以及其中的一些问题进行探讨。

毕业论文关键词：《了不起的盖茨比》；非人格化；作者；叙述者；反讽

Contents

1。 Introduction1

2。 Literature Review1

3。 Definition of Impersonality 。。。3

4。 Impersonality in The Great Gatsby。4

4。1 Impersonality in techniques4

4。1。1 The author’s relation to the narrator。。。4

4。1。2 The narrator’s relation to the story。5

4。2 Impersonality in emotions。。8

5。 Effects of Impersonality in The Great Gatsby。。。。。。。。。。。9

5。1 Functions 。。。。。。。。。。10

5。2 Problems。。。。。。。。。。。。。11

6。 Conclusion。。。。。。。11

Works Cited。。。13

1。 Introduction

The Great Gatsby is one of Fitzgerald’s most famous novels, and it is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title "Great American Novel。" Written in 1922-1925, the story is set up in the aftermath of the First World War。 It seems that the story is about a love tragedy of Gatsby, but in fact it reveals a real life in 1920s in America, a life imbued with a hedonistic mood, also it “gives expression to a mood of disillusion with the institutions of society and despair at its loss of values”(Parkinson 18)。  源G于J优L尔V论N文M网WwW.youeRw.com 原文+QQ75201`8766

The Great Gatsby has long been praised in all respects over the decades since its publication, and this essay will focus on the characteristic of impersonality in it。 This theory can be traced back to Flaubert and James, both of whom are the founders of the theory of modernist novel。 Flaubert thought a novelist should be an all-knowing God, while James put emphasis on authenticity of the art of novel and immediacy in the process of dramatic presentation(Shen 115)。 And in The Great Gatsby, we can find this feature from two main perspectives。 

To establish the viewpoint above, the body of this essay will be pided into three parts。 First, the definition of impersonality will be introduced, which is mainly based on James’s interpretation of this theory。 Next, the feature of impersonality will be examined from two main aspects, one is from techniques, which contains two layers─ the author’s relation to the narrator and the narrator’s relation to the story; the other is from emotional expression, that is, the application of irony, which covers up author’s real intention to avoid direct expression。 Examples from this novel will also be included。 Then, according to the analysis, functions and some problems of impersonality in this novel will be discussed in the third part。 Lastly, a conclusion is to be drawn。