The unique narrative techniques of the novel have also received much attention. Cheng Aimin in his “The Narrative Technique of The Great Gatsby” analyzes the narrative techniques of the novel from three aspects: the narrator, point of view and the link between author, narrator, characters and reader. He concludes that the writer makes characters in this novel the narrator to develop the story skillfully. This unique technique creates an aesthetic distance between the writer, the narrator, the characters and the reader, producing an original artistic effect (2002: 130). Toming points out that with this narrative point of view in place, the novel achieves a balance between involvement and distance, romantic passion and critical irony (2002: 241). David Seed holds that The Great Gatsby is a turning point in Fitzgerald’s career by his discovery of the use of a dramatized narrator, Nick Carraway thus performs a crucial role in conveying a sense of something mysterious and inexplicable about Gatsby (1996: 15).

Some researches criticize the money fetishism of the women in the novel. Wang Qian, for instance, argues that the theme of money is very evident in The Great Gatsby, money becomes a decisive factor in the three major female characters’ lives and thus the three main female characters are reduced to slaves to money (2010: 24-28). Xie Aijuan asserts that the sole target of living in that period is to pursue wealth and seek pleasure. The women in the novel such as Daisy, Jordan, Myrtle and others in such society show vividly women’s loneliness and emptiness in the heart of the Jazz Age. They abandon ideals, pursue pleasure and fall back on the aristocratic circle. They have abandoned their social role as traditional “true female,” composed of four qualities---godliness, chastity, gentleness and household. They have lost ration and sobriety, taste the frenzied physical life and take the money supremacy as the principle of living (2008: 73-76).

Looking back at the studies, we can obviously see that there are many aspects of analysis of The Great Gatsby. The researches mainly pay attention to the author’s craftsmanship and technique by analyzing the application of various symbols, the writing techniques and features like the carefully arrangement of the narrator and the smart knitting past and present together, or to the exploration of the novel’s themes which involve the disillusionment of American dream and the criticism of the money fetishism of the women characters in the novel. However, exploring deeply into the researches, we find that few essays have ever analyzed deeply of the character’s attitudes towards love, money, social relationships and the relation of money and moral corruption. This thesis tries to reveal the mammonism in the novel by analyzing the character’s attitudes towards love, money and the consequence of money worship, and criticizes the problem of moral corruption. It is also aiming at making a clear exposition of the contradiction between widespread material prosperity and spiritual emptiness in America.