| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-11页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第11-18页 |
| ·The origin and development of the American Dream | 第11-12页 |
| ·Fitzgerald and the American Dream | 第12-14页 |
| ·Historical background of consumerism in the Jazz Age | 第14-17页 |
| ·An introduction to Consumer Culture | 第14-15页 |
| ·America's entry to consumer society | 第15-17页 |
| ·The layout of this thesis | 第17-18页 |
| 2. Themes of the Fitzgerald's novels | 第18-27页 |
| ·This Side of Paradise: a fantastic dream difficult to realize | 第18-20页 |
| ·The Great Gatsby: a probe into fantasy | 第20-23页 |
| ·Criticism on materialism | 第20-21页 |
| ·The dehumanizing effects of money | 第21-23页 |
| ·Tender Is the Night: a gorgeous but decadent banquet | 第23-27页 |
| 3. Fitzgerald's criticism on consumerism: representation through some male characters | 第27-43页 |
| ·Amory: woe of disillusionment | 第27-31页 |
| ·Gatsby: a gentle and rich-honored cage | 第31-39页 |
| ·A dreamer lost in the visionary love and society | 第32-34页 |
| ·Inevitability of Gatsby's tragedy | 第34-39页 |
| ·Dick: an elegy of the American Dream | 第39-43页 |
| ·A hero with dreams | 第39-40页 |
| ·A quintessential portrait of the rotten society | 第40-43页 |
| 4. The beautiful and damned: Fitzgerald's "Golden Girls" | 第43-52页 |
| ·Rosalind: the beautiful mirage and heartless inhospitalities | 第43-45页 |
| ·Daisy: Gatsby's "golden girl | 第45-48页 |
| ·Love and money | 第45-47页 |
| ·Beautiful destruction | 第47-48页 |
| ·Nicole: a woman capable of destruction | 第48-52页 |
| ·The bought love | 第48-49页 |
| ·The price of love for beauty | 第49-52页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-55页 |
