Some privite points after read

I have read the Great Gatsby in this term. The Great Gatsby is a masterpiece written by a famous American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book is published and reprinted in "Penguin Classics" 2000 in England.  It is a story of the main protagonist, Gatsby, set in the early summer of 1922 in West Egg, Long Island, and told from the perspective of Nick Caraway, Gatsby's friend. After reading the book, I think The Great Gatsby is about Gatsby's shattered dream, a shattered dream of vanity.  Gatsby buys a big mansion in the West Egg, across the bay from Daisy's house. He holds luxurious party every week, in order to draw the attention from Daisy, who he had loved since 5 years ago when he was a poor lieutenant. He was asked to leave for World War І, but Daisy didn't wait for him and married to Tom Buchanan, a rich aristocrat. Tom has a mistress outside, George Wilson's wife, Myrtle. Nick is Daisy's cousin and Tom's fellow student in Yale. Moreover, he is coincidently a neighbor of Gatsby and the one who arranges the date between Gatsby and Daisy, whose love seems to be back again. However, their affair is revealed soon. Daisy chooses to go back to Tom, and Gatsby's dream is over. On the way home, Daisy kills Myrtle in a car accident. Gatsby takes the blame for Daisy and is killed by Myrtle's husband, George Wilson, who is incited by Tom. Up to now, we can see Gatsby's dream is disintegrated. He becomes the victim of others' greed, selfishness, and coldness.  As a masterpiece of American "Lost Generation" literature, The Great Gatsby is far not only a story of love. In fact, it encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope about the grand background of times. It concerns about the American era of unprecedented prosperity, the comparison between the newly rich and the old aristocracy, the moral decline of the upper class and so on.

2015-06-24

分享

喜欢(0)