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A Deconstructive Analysis of The Great Gatsby
ZHANG Qin
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2018.12.008
South China Business College, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangdong, China
Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is universally recognized as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He is also considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s, and with the publication of The Great Gatsby he was catapulted to fame by a night which gives a concrete illustration to the Jazz Age. Taking the novel as a case in point, this paper, based on the theory of deconstruction, seeks to undertake a deconstructive interpretation towards the binary oppositions on which the projects rest—dream and reality, and the past and the present, in order to subvert logos-centrism represented by Gatsby’s disillusionment with his American dream.
deconstruction, The Great Gatsby, logos-centrism, Lacan
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