| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第10-16页 |
| Chapter One MODERNITY AND THE ETHICAL ENVIRONMENT IN THEGREAT GATSBY | 第16-22页 |
| 1.1 Modernity and the Rise of Machine | 第16-19页 |
| 1.2 Modernity and the Jazz Age | 第19-22页 |
| Chapter Two THE DESCRIPTION OF MACHINE AND THE ETHICALCONFUSION | 第22-46页 |
| 2.1 Machine and the Construction of Ethical Identity | 第22-34页 |
| 2.1.1 Machine and Gatsby’s ethical identity | 第23-27页 |
| 2.1.2 Machine and Myrtle’s ethical identity | 第27-31页 |
| 2.1.3 Machine and other people’s ethical identity | 第31-34页 |
| 2.2 Machine and the Construction of the Ethical Order | 第34-46页 |
| 2.2.1 Car and the construction of the ethical order | 第34-37页 |
| 2.2.2 Telephone and the construction of the ethical order | 第37-42页 |
| 2.2.3 Other high-tech machines and the construction of ethical order | 第42-46页 |
| Chapter Three MECHANIZED SOCIETY AND THE ETHICALPREDICAMENT | 第46-62页 |
| 3.1 Mechanized Society and the Unreachable American Dream | 第46-52页 |
| 3.1.1 Gatsby and the unreachable American Dream | 第46-49页 |
| 3.1.2 Nick and the unreachable American Dream | 第49-52页 |
| 3.2 Mechanized Society and Characters’ Attitude toward Family | 第52-62页 |
| 3.2.1 Jay Gatsby’s attitude toward family | 第53-55页 |
| 3.2.2 Nick Caraway’s attitude toward family | 第55-58页 |
| 3.2.3 Daisy and Tom’s attitude toward family | 第58-60页 |
| 3.2.4 Myrtle and Wilson’s attitude toward family | 第60-62页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第62-64页 |
| Works Cited | 第64-66页 |
