Abstract:

As to the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's works, one of their outstanding features is his fiction is more like American in spite of specific descriptions of Japanese society.Compared to Japanese literature, Murakami admires American literature more wholeheartedly.Among a number of American writers he admires, first of all, is Scott Fitzgerald.Both Norwegian Wood, Murakami's representative novel, and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's representative novel, belong to a kind of love story that is in quest of the inward of urban youth.They both make a noble, funny and tragic description of heroes.Their narrations are both in the form of the first person of "I" and flashback.And in their both works are interwoven various opposites including life and death, sorrow and joy, and illusion and reality.It may be said that Haruki Murakami is just the contemporary Fitzgerald.

Key words: Haruki Murakami, Scott Fitzgerald, writing keynote, narrator