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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is regarded as a great twentieth-century American novelist. In many ways Fitzgerald s legendary life has had a huge impact on critics and readers, perhaps overshadowing his great work. However, Fitzgerald s acceptance into the ranks of serious and important American novelists came only after his death in 1940. Moreover, it is only recently that critics have moved away from studying Fitzgerald s work as that of a merely popular or writer representative of the 20s and examined his works from various other perspectives. Consequently,I situated the trauma and psychological losses of various protagonists in F. Scott Fitzgerald s novels within a number of overlapping frames: my work has adapted ideas from the influential works on trauma developed by Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, Dominick LaCapra, Jenny Edkins, and others.

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Dr. Bui Thi Huong Giang is currently employed as Lecturer at School of Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University. She completed her graduate studies with a Ph.D. from Fukuoka Women´s University (Japan) in 2014.Her current research interests are American Literature,psychoanalytic theory, and cultural studies.

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