了不起的盖茨比 英文版角色介绍

主要角色

▪ Jay Gatsby(莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥 饰) ▪ Nick Carraway(托贝·马奎尔 饰)

其他角色

▪ Daisy Buchanan(凯瑞·穆里根 饰) ▪ Jordan Baker(伊丽莎白·德比齐 饰)

▪ Tom Buchanan(乔尔·埃哲顿 饰) ▪ Myrtle Wilson(艾拉·菲舍尔 饰)

▪ Young Jay Gatsby(卡兰·麦克奥利菲 饰) ▪ Catherine(嘉玛·沃德 饰)

▪ Meyer Wolfsheim(阿米特巴·巴强 饰) ▪ George Wilson(杰森·克拉克 饰)

▪ Head Waiter(Goran D'Kluet 饰) ▪ Henry(Felix Williamson 饰)

The Great Gatsby F.Scott.Fitzgerald

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Character List

Daisy Buchanan - Nick’s cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful socialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is sardonic and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband’s constant infidelity.

Daisy Buchanan (In-Depth Analysis)

Tom Buchanan - Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick’s social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family, Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.

Jordan Baker - Daisy’s friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest: she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth.

Myrtle Wilson - Tom’s lover, whose lifeless husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle herself possesses a fierce vitality and desperately looks for a way to improve her situation. Unfortunately for her, she chooses Tom, who treats her as a mere object of his desire.

Analysis of Major Characters Daisy Buchanan

Partially based on Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. As a young debutante in Louisville, Daisy was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lied about his background to Daisy, claiming to be from a wealthy family in order to convince her that he was worthy of her. Eventually, Gatsby won Daisy’s heart, and they made love before Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, but in 1919 she chose instead to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle and who had the support of her parents.

After 1919, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, making her the single goal of all of his dreams and the main motivation behind his acquisition of immense wealth through criminal activity. To Gatsby, Daisy represents the paragon of perfection—she has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota and that first attracted him to her. In reality, however, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby’s ideals. She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic. Nick characterizes her as a careless person who smashes things up and then retreats behind her money. Daisy proves her real nature when she chooses Tom over Gatsby in Chapter VII, then allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson even though she herself was driving

the car. Finally, rather than attend Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no forwarding address.

Like Zelda Fitzgerald, Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury. She is capable of affection (she seems genuinely fond of Nick and occasionally seems to love Gatsby sincerely), but not of sustained loyalty or care. She is indifferent even to her own infant daughter, never discussing her and treating her as an afterthought when she is introduced in Chapter VII. In Fitzgerald’s conception of America in the 1920s, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg set.

《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德1925年所写的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约市及长岛为背景的中篇小说，小说的背景被设定在现代化的美国社会中上阶层的白人圈内，通过卡拉韦的叙述展开。《了不起的盖茨比》问世，奠定了弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德在现代美国文学史上的地位，成了20年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。20世纪末，美国学术界权威在百年英语文学长河中选出一百部最优秀的小说，《了不起的盖茨比》高居第二位，傲然跻身当代经典行列。

1、盖茨比

New York rich, young is a second lieutenant officer, and the beautiful young girl Daisy love each other, but ultimately did not go together.

纽约的富翁，年轻时是一个少尉军官，与美貌的年轻姑娘黛茜互相爱慕，却最终没有走到一起。

Can be crazy for many years abnormal, even for Daisy and strive to become rich, but again with the former lover to meet, but it is different.

可多年来痴情异常，甚至为了黛茜而奋发成为富翁，但是再与昔日情人见面时，却是物是人非。

2、尼克

黛茜的远房表哥，从中西部故乡来到纽约。

Daisy's distant cousin came to New York from her hometown in the Midwest.

居住在黛茜家时结识了住在旁边的盖茨比，从而得知了盖茨比与表妹黛茜的过往。

Daisy's distant cousin came to New York from her hometown in the Midwest.

3、黛茜

Gatsby's former lover, because of the outbreak of the World War, as a second lieutenant officer Gatsby was transferred to Europe, thus the two missed.

盖茨比昔日的情人，因为世界大战的爆发，身为少尉军官的盖茨比被调往欧洲，从而两人就此错过。

After many years, Gatsby in order to recapture her heart and become rich and moved to her next door.

在多年后，盖茨比为了夺回她的心而变成富翁并搬到她隔壁。

But Daisy, who is no longer pure, just wants to socialize with Gatsby to seek stimulation.

可已经不再纯洁的黛茜只想与盖茨比交往寻求刺激。

了不起的盖茨比主要剧情

主人公詹姆斯·卡兹本是北达科他州的一个贫穷的农家子弟，自幼梦想做个出人头地的大人物。经过一番努力，他终于步步高升，并更名为杰伊·盖茨比。

他在一个军训营里任中尉时，爱上了南方的大家闺秀黛茜·费。可是当他戴着军功勋章在战争结束后从海外归来时，黛茜已嫁给一位来自芝加哥的、体格健壮、富有但举止粗鲁的纨绔子弟汤姆·布坎农，沉醉于爱情梦幻中的盖茨比艰苦创业，由一个贫穷的军官奋斗成为百万富翁。

他在长岛西端买下了一幢豪华别墅，与住在东端的布坎农夫妇隔海湾相望。他的府第每晚灯火通明，成群的宾客饮酒纵乐。他唯一的愿望是希望看到分别了五年的情人黛茜，当他们重逢时，盖茨比以为时光可以倒流，重温旧梦。

但久而久之，他发现黛茜远不像他梦想的人，可是这种醒悟还没多久，黛茜开车碾死了丈夫的情妇，汤姆嫁祸于盖茨比，盖茨比终于被害，黛茜居然没来送葬：叙述者尼克由此看透了上层社会有钱人的冷酷残忍和居心险恶，离开纽约，回到了中西部的故乡。