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the "Jazz Age" . Through the narration of Nick Caraway, it explores the superficially glittering world of mansions on the Long Island shore, and his encounter with Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him. The poet E.A Robinson (Alan Shucard, 1968: 146) once defined life in America as "a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks." While the author just use this bewildered situation as his novel's background to display the real history of the 20s America. And he also used the special situation to create the basic theme: the combination of absurdity with tragedy, and of potential power with perversion of potential and waste power. Like the other writers of the1920's, Fitzgerald was fascinated by the great of what had so-called "The American Dream." For a long time, The Great Gatsby was classified as "a book about the Roaring Twenties". It is one of those novels that so richly evoke the texture of their time that they become, in the fullness of time, more than literary classics, they become a supplementary or even substitute form of history. In some way, The Great Gatsby has a good source for historians because of Fitzgerald's sense of time, of the emotions evoked by the special time he has lived in the 1920's of America. At the same time, the novel was the real copy of the author's life. That is to say, the novel was the autobiography of the Author-Fitzgerald. Unlike the other writers of his contemporaries, he saw in himself exactly those aspects of “The American Dream” which had caused its degradation, otherwise the rest of writers formed two main streams: retreated from America, or attempted to objectify it through a broad-scope sociological analysis, or ridiculed it through parody. The novel's main themes are: the problem of wealth and the problem of love, say ,the way of dealing with the true love and the love in the allusion which has always confused the youth. In the novel, these problems are along with the process of the development of the plot the author designed. In the novel, Fitzgerald's preoccupation with the money, and the dreams, the magical expectations, the carelessness, the ideals, and the illusions which create and created by wealth were certainly a very personal matter for him as an individual. While what he got: the delicate, lovely, and essentially parasitic woman whose love, loyalty had to be acquired by the success and protected by the continued achievement, in some way, love itself really like one kind of stock investment which depends upon the permanent investment of emotional funds. Furthermore, the eternal theme of the novel even all the novels--love. This also was not a exception, the real life's copy, nay, the love-affair between the author and the so-called golden girl Zelda completely occurred in the novel with another name: The so-called great Gatsby and the vast, vulgar, meretricious beauty-Daisy whose voices are always full of money, and this theme occurred in every corner of the novel. And we learn from the novel that the whole idea is the unfairness of a poor man cannot able to marry the woman he loved without money. In a word, the novel The Great Gatsby was a historical document of 1920’s America. And in the novel, each character has been rendered perfectly in that particular historical background. Ⅰ.The Family and Social Background of Fitzgerald From the novel we’ve learnt that the family and the social ba