Beruflich Dokumente
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FANFAN INFANSYAH
1510731004
ANDALAS UNIVERSITY
PADANG
2018
1.1.The Background of the Research
One of the most famous Fitzgerald works tell the social condition of the
Jazz Age in 20th Century is The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby, novel by F.
Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925. The novel is famous for capturing the mood
of the 1920s, especially the moral vacuity of a postwar society America obsessed
with wealth and status. Although the novel is considered an American classic
today, and many adaptations of the story have been made for stage, film, radio,
and television. An operatic version of the story premiered in 1999.
This novel tells about Jay Gatsby try to get his love Daisy Buchanan.
Despite, Jay Gatsby knew that Daisy married with Tom Buchanan, But Jay
Gatsby never forgotten her. But, Daisy married with Tom Buchanan while Jay
Gatsby still in military. The narrator Nick Carraway is a young Yale graduate who
works as a bond broker in Manhattan. He rents a house at West Egg on Long
Island across the water from his cousin, Daisy. His neighbour there is
the enigmatic Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire from the Midwest who lives the
high life from the profits of his minor criminal activities. Gatsby’s infamous
parties are attended by many guests who do not know their host. Carraway learns
that Gatsby and Daisy had been in love, but that Daisy had not waited for him to
return from the war and had married another. Nick arranges a meeting between
the two, and Daisy finds herself impressed by the change in Gatsby’s fortunes.
Daisy’s husband Tom, himself already involved in an affair with the garage
owner’s wife Myrtle, becomes jealous of Gatsby’s attentions to his wife. Then
Myrtle is killed in an accident, and Tom tells Myrtle’s husband that Gatsby is
responsible. Through it all, Nick watches as Gatsby is betrayed by his own
dreams, which have been nurtured by a meretricious society.
The writer limit the research. The writer only to analyze the psychological
of Jay Gatsby after Daisy Buchanan getting married with other guy. The writer
also want to find out The psychological ambiance of Jay Gatsby after He meets
Daisy buchanan.
The writer find out the previous studies regarding of The Great Gatsby
Novel. There is an article about Jay Gatsby’s Trauma and Psychological Loss by
Thi Huong Giang Bui. Giang Bui (2012) uses Freudian theory to analyze the
research. This research tells about Jay Gatsby psychological loss. It causes by his
past with Daisy Buchanan is broken. He try to recapture his their happy moments
by recycling and mixing past events with present ones, and to jump back into a
created past . Because of his wealth,status and success, His dream become
nightmare.
The previous study with the same approach found in Thesis Psychological
Analysis of Jay Gatsby’s Life In Francis F.Fitzgerald’s “ The Great Gatsby”
( Viewed from Abraham Maslow Hierarchy of Needs Theory ) by Ahmad Noufal
Junaidi from Maulana Malik Ibrahim State University of Malang. This research
tend to use Abraham Maslow theory needs. It described the psychological Jay
Gatsby by Five needs human being that psychological influence human life.
Those are Psychological need, Safety need, Love and Belonging need, esteem
need and self-actualization need. From those needs, The researchers did not use
self-actualization need because He was died before he gots his love.
The writer also found the journal of this Novel. F.Scott Fitzgerald : The Jazz Age
and The Great Gatsby by Rupali Mirza. This Journal explain about the situation
after World War 1 where The Jazz age was born. This Post World War age was
the time which witnessed the upsurge of the youth. They did not want to tink
about his past nor they thought about the future. This era full of materialism and
witness. Woman of the jazz age was busy chasing her material dreams without
realizing she had lost all her chastity in this quest. The woman of the jazz age like
Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle. They categorized as greed,materialism and
selfishness. The way of how daisy married tom buchanan than Jay Gatsby. All of
it because of to wealth.
Another journal about Buying into Money Equals Happiness Fails for the
Characters in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby by Liamarie Snyder. This journal
tells about the materialism through the Character of this novel like Jay Gatsby and
Daisy Buchanan. The way of Jay Gatsby uses money to get daisy back to his life
is a reality . The way Daisy Buchanan married with tom buchanan also the
materialism that Tom had. This is one of the shift american dream at that time.
This theory used by the writer because since the writer purpose to analyze
how the environment and social economic in that era that shows on the novel
influence the psychology of the character as the background caused the character
become too ambitious as seen on the novel, it means the writer would relating the
social environment to the psychology of the character which then create the
destruction to the character’s life.
Bui, Thi Huong Giang. “Jay Gatsby’s Trauma and Psychological Loss.” English
Language and Literature Studies; Vol. 3, No. 1 (2013): 1-5.
Mirza, Rupali. “F.Scott Fitzgerald :The Jazz Age and The Great Gatsby.” Asian
Journal of Multidisclipinary Studies (5 May 2014): Volume 2,Issue 5.
Snyder, Liamarie. “Buying into Money Equals Happiness Fails for the Characters
in.” St. John Fisher College (2012): ENGL 420.
Tyson, Lois. Critical Literary Today 2nd Edition. London: Roudledge, 2006.