美国著名作家菲茨杰拉德的代表作《了不起的盖茨比》是20世纪伟大的现实主义文学作品之一。作者巧妙地运用了丰富而精湛的象征手法,成功地揭示了小说的主旨,使小说耐人寻味,意义深远。这些象征主要有颜色、事物、人物等的象征。国内学者多研究颜色、事物的象征意义,例如,绿色象征梦想、希望、金钱堆积的虚幻的美国梦,黄色象征金钱、财富和死亡,埃克尔伯格医生的眼睛象征上帝之眼。但 The famous American writer Fitzgerald’s masterpiece “The Great Gatsby” is one of the great realist literary works of the 20th century. The author cleverly used rich and exquisite symbolism to successfully reveal the essence of the novel so that the novel is intriguing and has far-reaching significance. These symbols are mainly color, things, characters and other symbols. Domestic scholars study color and the symbolism of things. For example, the green symbolizes dreams, hopes, illusory American dreams of money accumulation, the yellow symbolizes money, wealth and death. The eye of Dr. Eckelberg symbolizes the eye of God. but