Female’s Life Of American Jazz Age Perceived From F.S.Fitzgerald’s Novels

The Jazz Age lead by Fitzgerald has already passed over a hundred years, lookback to the twentieth century which filled with talented people of America literary,was an era of prosperity that cannot be ignored, no matter from the angel of literatureor social environment. Until today, Fitzgerald is still of real profound impact on theyounger writers and readers through his works. His works are highly evaluated,because readers can not only appreciate a quality of poetry language skills from hisworks, but also the real people and life that worth-thinking of The Jazz Age.The research of my paper is mainly divided into the following four parts: the firstpart mainly introduces the time and themes lead by Fitzgerald, the virtual prosperitybrought by the first World War—The Jazz Age, and general themes of Fitzgerald’sfive novels, as well as the birth of the “flappers” created by Fitzgerald under thespecial era; the second part clearly divides the numerous independent women intovarious classification, such as the money-worshipped female images who are inpursuit of material strongly, the rebel female images who do not succumb to the status,the morbid female images who are under gloomy psychology, besides, analyses theinspiration of Fitzgerald’s creation of various females from the perspective ofprototype experience; the next part observes female’s changing family life tothemselves through wearing、make-up and some other details, in the meanwhile,analyses female’s two normal attitudes towards men, and reproduces the socialcustoms from the universal value of different females of The Jazz Age; the fourth partreveals the value of female’s existence in The Jazz Age, mainly through the anxiousand confused females, despite the individual ones who are not highly occupied inFitzgerald’s works.This paper tries to analyze the numerous female images and values inFitzgerald’s five novels, using the philosophical thoughts of “existence” and“nothingness” proposed by Sartre and Nitzsch, combine literaty texts withphilosophical ideas, to understand American female’s normal life of the first half oftwentieth century, reproduce the real value and significance of American females inThe Jazz Age.