《了不起的盖茨比》英文读后感
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The disillusion of the American dream
- The Great Gatsby book review
The Great Gatsby is the representative work of American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald.It is a true reflection of 1920s.The book is a claical novel and has profound meaning of the eence of the American dream’s illusory.The writer showed the American social after the World War I in the book.It uncovers the money worship and hedonism in the Jazz Age and people’s selfishne and indifference in that time.What the novel describes is a tragic story about the disillusion of the American dream.
The story happened after the World War I.A young busine man named Nick Carraway rent a house in the Long Island.In the opposite house there lives his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom
Buchanan.In the villa next lives Jay Gatsby.Gatsby holds big party every weekend in his villa but there is few people has seen his face.After a while Nick knows that when Gatsby was a soldier, he fell in love with Daisy.However, Daisy finally married with a rich man Tom Buchanan.When the war is ended, Gatsby began to do illegal busine and become a millionaire in high society.In order to draw Daisy’s attention, he bought a big house in opposite to Daisy’s and often holds big party.Gatsby and Daisy meet again in the help of Nick.When this is known by Tom, he is burst into anger and they have a quarrel.With extremely nervous, Daisy
drives the car and killed Tom’s mistre Myrtle accidentally.However, Tom suggests Myrtle’s husband Wilson that it is Gatsby who killed her wife.In extreme anger Wilson shoot Gatsby and suicide.In the end of the book, when Nick held a funeral for Gatsby, none of his old friends join.Nick is disappointed to the dark high society of New York so he leave the city and go back to his home in the American Midwest.
The theme of the novel is to present the tragedy of the American dream’s disillusion by showing the story of Gatsby’s pursuing of dream.The so-called \"American dream\" means that in America everyone is equality of opportunity.People can realize their dream and achieve succe just by themselves’ struggle.The American dream has always been an ideal that people are convinced of and pursue of.It is a kind of spiritual strength that promote America to developing and flourishing quickly.After the World War I, America has entered into an
unprecedented era of prosperity and the American dream becoming a crazy worship to money.The wind of money worship prevailing.So the American dream has been deteriorated as the social develop.
In this novel, the short life of Gatsby has go through the proce of dream from start to burst.It symbolize the rise and burst of the American dream at the same time.One side of his American Dream is the dream of money.He realize this dream by illegal busine which made him from a poor boy to a millionaire.However, the other side of his dream is the
dream of love and it make him into a sad ending.In fact, his loving dream is another form of his money dream.At first when he fell in love with Daisy, he was attracted by her material life.He yearns for not so much Daisy’s love as Daisy’s high society life.Daisy is the combination of love and money which he’s longing for.She is the represent of a beautiful life.However, in real life, Daisy is far from what Gatsby imagine.She is a selfish, shallow and timid girl and all she wants is money and high society life.Finally Gatsby’s dream broken and it also symbolize the broken of the American dream.The eence of the tragedy of Gatsby is the tragedy of American idealism.But then again, although Gatsby’s effort did not pay off, his spirit of struggling to realize his dream and change the fate is moving and deserves our admiration and learning.
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