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Ⅰ、Introduction The Great Gatsby is written by American author F. Scott. Fitzgerald, who is considered a member of the “lost generation” of the Twenties. It was first published on 1925. The following is the main plot of the novel. A young man named Nick Caraway, who came to New York City in spring of 1922. He became involved in the life of his neighbor at Long Island, Jay Gatsby, a very rich man, who entertained hundreds of guests at his party. Gatsby revealed to Nick, that he fell in love with Nick's cousin Daisy before the war. At that time he was poor. However, Daisy married Tom Buchanan, a rich but boring man of good social position. Gatsby lost Daisy because he had no money, but he was still in love with her. He persuaded Nick to bring him and Daisy together again. "You can't repeat the past,"1[1] Nick said to him. Gatsby tried to convince Daisy to leave Tom, who, in turn, revealed that Gatsby has made his money from bootlegging. So they asked Daisy whom she loved. Daisy began to sob helplessly: “ I did love him once-but I loved you too.”[2] Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, hit and killed Tom's mistress, Myrtle Wilson, unaware of her identity. Gatsby remained silent to protect Daisy. Tom told Myrtle's husband Wilson it was Gatsby who killed his wife. Wilson murdered Gatsby and then committed suicide. Nick was left to arrange Gatsby's funeral, attended only Gatsby's father and one former guest. Nick returned to the his Midwest home, reflecting on Gatsby's dreams and the sad and cyclical nature of the past. Ⅱ、My viewpoint on good books The Great Gatsby is ranked second in the Modern Library’s list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. But everyone has the different criteria on good books. One point of good books is, I think, when you eat it the taste is what you need. The good books tell you clearly something that lurks in your brain dimly. So you will feel very good if you resonate with the character in books. When I put money to stock market, I did and thought the exact same as Nick: “…I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.” 2[3] Another point of good books is, after you have eaten it the taste is so good that you want to eat it again. The good book is amusing and thought inspiring. The Great Gatsby also has a lot of puns and symbolisms. This book is a little like what it say on the first page: “He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.” [4] So Toru read this book again and again, which is one of his favorite books. (Toru is the main character of Japanese novel Norwegian Wood) Ⅲ、Gatsby’s dream---to get back his lost love “He (Gatsby) stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way…Involuntarily I glanced seaward-and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock.” [5] That green light was where Daisy lived. That light is the symbol of Gatsby’s great dream, his love for Daisy, and attempt to make that love real. “She (Daisy) was the first nice girl he had ever known.”[6] “He (Gatsby) found her exciting desirable.” [7] “ It amazed him-he had never been in such a beautiful home before.”[8] Daisy came from wealthy family. At that time (1917) Gatsby was a penniless young man. He lied about his background to make her believe that he was worthy of her. “As matter of fact, he had no such facilities-he had no comfortable family standing behind him and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world.”[9] When Gatsby left for the war, though she cried and cried, Daisy married rich man Tom Buchanan, “with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before.”[10] IV、How to get his dream come true “ If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him (Gatsby), some heightened sensitivity to the promise of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquake the thousands miles away…it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person…”3[11] So the great Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back. How did he make his dream come true? (一)Get rich and buy a big house and nice car Becoming wealthy is the most important for love affair. Large fortune cannot have been obtained honestly. Gatsby did business with Wolfsheim, a gambler, “who fixed the World Series back in 1919.” [12] Gatsby made lots of money also from distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities. After gotten money, Gatsby got luxurious possessions. “And a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby mansion.”[13] “He saw me looking with admiration at his car (Rolls Royce)…it was rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length…” [14] (二)Get refined To win his love, Gatsby made him elegant and noble too. He studied in Oxford University. From his daily schedule, we knew, “practice elocution, poise and how to attain it ---5:00-6:00…Read one improved book and magazine per week.” [15] (三)Become famous Also Gatsby got him famous around New York. He had elaborate parties every weekend at his mansion. The party is almost unbelievably luxurious, “looks like the World Fair.” [16] He made friends who are famous. When Daisy went to his party and exclaimed, “ I never met so many celebrities.”[17] V、The failure of the dream (一)The failure of the Gatsby’s dream Gatsby died. His dream died too. Myrtle’s husband shot him in a pool. It was Tom, Daisy’s husband told Myrtle’s husband that Gatsby owned the car and killed Myrtle. Actually, it was Daisy drove Gatsby’s car and kill Myrtle. To Gatsby, Daisy is his true love and represents perfection. She has the aura of charm, wealth, grace and aristocracy that he longed. In reality, however, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby’s ideal. She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, hypocritical. She is careless person who smashes thing up and then retreats behind her money. She allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle ever though she herself was driving the car. Finally, rather than attend Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no contact address. “Her voice is full of money.”4[18] Daisy is love with money, easy, and material luxury. She seems to love Gatsby, but not of sustained loyalty or care. From the above, we know the real Daisy. But Gatsby did not know her clearly. This is the main reason why Gatsby’s dream cannot come true. When Gatsby fell in love with Daisy, ‘he knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn’t realize just how extraordinary a “nice” girl could be. She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby-nothing.’ [19] “In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between.” [20] After the war, Gatsby got rich, but Daisy got married. He only got several times to be with her and know her. The green light where his lost lover lived is dim and far away. He never knew what his dream and his hope really were. (二)The failure of the other characters’ dreams Gatsby died. His dream ruined. Also his dream is worthless. And Daisy herself, “I think everything’s terrible anyhow…everybody think so-the most advanced people. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.” [21] Her husband, Tom, has lots of money and made love with lots of woman. Ever when she gave birth to a baby, “she (her baby) was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with utterly abandoned feeling…” [22] Tom dissatisfied too. “They (Tom and Daisy) had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully... This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn’t believe it—I had no sight into Daisy’s heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of…”[23] Myrtle, Tom’s mistress, when they ‘stood face to face discussing, in impassioned voices, whether Mrs. Wilson (Myrtle) had any right to mention Daisy’s name.“Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!” shouted Mrs. Wilson. “I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai——” Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.’ 5[24] Wison, Myrtle’s husband, is poor. “He was a blond, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome. When he saw us (Tom and Nick) a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.” [25] He thought Tom came for business, actully Tom came for his wife. His wife, “walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye. ” [26] VI、Conclusion On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. Actually it is a story of the distorted American dream failing in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess. The American dream is that one can pursue their goals in life through hard work and moral righteousness. But in 1920’s, as this novel The Great Gatsby published, the American economy soared. People began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels. The unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed the other more noble goals. The various social climbers and ambitious speculators scramble for wealth greedily. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald of The Great Gatsby portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, roaring jazz age, evidenced in its cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. Gatsby's dream is ruined by the unworthiness of its object, just as the American dream in the 1920s is ruined by the unworthiness of its object—money and pleasure. Now we are on the initial stage of the socialist market economy. Our GDP and material living standard are higher than before. But our society is not in harmony. It is a little like the American roaring jazz age. In this money crazy modern times, many people make money from fraud, bribery, exploitation and smuggling. Also in this material world, we are thirsty, worried and lost. Our goals swing to money and materialism too much. We should swing it back to true love, fraternity, righteousness, sincerity and art a little.
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