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标题：The Bankruptcy of a Promising Psychologist
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作者：Yuhan ZHU
期刊名称：Studies in Literature and Language
印刷版ISSN：1923-1555
电子版ISSN：1923-1563
出版年度：2013
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：68-75
DOI：10.3968/j.sll.1923156320130701.2597
语种：English
出版社：Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture
摘要：Tender Is the Night is another important work written by Fitzgerald, the spokesman of Jazz Age. It ranks 28th among the best 100 novels in the Twentieth Century. The book takes the author years of hard work, because when he is writing it, his family experiences lots of vicissitudes—his wife’s insanity and economic problems. At the very beginning, he embraces high expectation of the novel, because he wants to regain his fame by it. But the expectation is spoiled by the cold receptions among readers and critics. Because of the loose structure and the unclear explanation of Dick’s bankruptcy, many critics and readers severely inveigh against the novel. This paper wants to illustrate the process of Dick’s bankruptcy from a promising psychologist with the aid of bildungsroman theory. At first, at the impact of two positive guides, Dick is a rising elite. But owing to the personal weakness and outer seductions, the innocent Dick meets sophisticated circumstances and goes bankrupt at last.
关键词：F. S. Fitzgerald; Tender Is the Night; Bankruptcy; Bildungsroman