CAJ | 학술논문

地方和自我紧密相连，对自我的理解可以通过研究主体居住过的地方来实现。西部故乡形塑了盖茨比的自我，与之形成的情感依附关系使他的生命更具意义。移居东部纽约长岛之后，盖茨比构筑记忆中的西部伊甸园和执着于用西部的模式实现旧日梦想的行为，体现出他对旧时故地的怀念和不能融入新居之地的失落。在处于变动之中无地方性的长岛，盖茨比体验到的是虽身处其中却如置身其外的陌生与疏离感，虽有豪宅却无心灵归属之所的漂泊感。与西部的联系尽管紧密却虚幻而没有根基，与东部长岛陌生而又疏离。失去与任何地方的本真联系，盖茨比如既入不得天堂也下不了地狱的漂浮幽灵，备受失去精神家园、无根无归属感的折磨。小说《了不起的盖茨比》既是作者菲茨杰拉德纪念西部边疆消逝的挽歌，更是一曲关于现代无根性的悲歌。
지방화자아긴밀상련，대자아적리해가이통과연구주체거주과적지방래실현。서부고향형소료개자비적자아，여지형성적정감의부관계사타적생명경구의의。이거동부뉴약장도지후，개자비구축기억중적서부이전완화집착우용서부적모식실현구일몽상적행위，체현출타대구시고지적부념화불능융입신거지지적실락。재처우변동지중무지방성적장도，개자비체험도적시수신처기중각여치신기외적맥생여소리감，수유호택각무심령귀속지소적표박감。여서부적련계진관긴밀각허환이몰유근기，여동부장도맥생이우소리。실거여임하지방적본진련계，개자비여기입불득천당야하불료지옥적표부유령，비수실거정신가완、무근무귀속감적절마。소설《료불기적개자비》기시작자비자걸랍덕기념서부변강소서적만가，경시일곡관우현대무근성적비가。
Place and self are inextricably linked. An understanding of the self can be attained through a study of the places in which the subject has lived. The West where Gatsby was born and grew up shapes his self, and his attachment to it gives much meaning to his life. In Long Island, Gatsby casts a nostalgic look at the West and the old times by rebuilding a Garden of Eden of the West in his memory and insisting on West-specific behavioral pattern, which reveals his sense of loss due to his failure to merge with the new place. The ever-changing and placeless Long Island produces in Gatsby feelings of strangeness and alienation. Gatsby＇ s attachment to the West is illu- sory in nature, and his emotional bonds with Long Island cannot be developed. Failure to establish authentic connection with any place renders Gatsby rootless and homeless without a sense of belonging like a free floating ghost trapped in the state of limbo. The Great Gatsby is therefore more a lament over the rootlessness of modern people than an elegy to the passing of the Wild West.