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The Great Gatsby(
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The Great Gatsby
I Introduction of Author
The
Great
Gatsby
is
written
by
F.
Scott
Fitzgerald,
who
was
born
in
1896
and
died
in
1940.
His
first
novel
Earthly
Paradise
made
a
hit
and
he
rose
to
fame.
He
published
the
several
novels
such
as
Tender
is
the
Night,
Paradise,
The
Last
Giant
etc.
and
over
160
short
stories,
including
Benjamin’s
Fantasy
Trip,
Ice
Palace,
Winter
Dream,
Sensible
and
Back
to
Babylon.
On
the
81st
Oscar
Awards
ceremony,
the
film
Benjamin Button got three
awards, which was adapted from his
short
story
Benjamin’s
Fantasy
Trip.
Tender
is
the
Night
and
The Great Gatsby are listed in the Top
100 novels of 20 century
by the United
States Academic Community. And the latter even
ranks the second. In 1940 at the age of
44 he died of frustration.
After
his
death,
some
of
his
interesting
writings
were
put
together
into
a
collection
entitled
The
Crack-Up.
The
Great
Gatsby
is
considered
Fitzgerald
’
s
masterpiece.
However
in
1925
no
one
predicted
the
eminence
of
the
novel
in
the
new
century
—
not
even
Fitzgerald
himself.
The
story
of
The
Great
Gatsby is a good illustration.
II Introduction of Plot
The novel was told the story of Gatsby by the narrator Nick.
Nick is tired of his
hometown
’
life so that he moves to New
York from the Midwest of
America. He rents a small house in
the
suburb that happens to
be next to the Gatsby
’
s mansion. Five years ago, Gatsby
falls
in love with a wealthy girl named Daisy, but he is
too poor
to marry her. When the First
World War broke out, Gatsby had
to
devote himself to the army. Then Daisy is married
to a rich
young
man
Tom
Buchanan.
Determined
to
win
back
his
lost
love,
Gatsby
has
engaged
himself
in
bootlegging
and
other
“shady” activities to make a fortune
for the past five years. He
buy
a mansion just opposite to the
Daisy
’
s house with a river
lying in between. Gatsby holds dazzling
parties every weekend
hoping one day
the married Daisy will come. With the help of
Nick,
the
cousin
of
Daisy,
Gatsby
meet
the
Daisy
again
since
five
years
ago.
But
now
the
lady
in
front
of
him
is
no
longer
what
she used to be. She has become a vain, selfish and
vulgar
woman.
Although
he
knows
it,
he
still
clings
to
the
illusion
about Daisy. One day, Daisy drives
Gatsby
’
s car after drinking
and
causes
an
accident
that
kills
Tom
’
s
mistress.
Daisy
plots
with Tom to
shift the blame on Gatsby. Finally Gatsby was shot
by the victim
’
s husband. Only Gatsby’s poor father and Nick
attend the funeral. Daisy and Tom were
on trip to Europe at that
time.
III Personal Inspiration
After reading, I always wonder why the Gatsby is “great”.
In
the
view
of
most
people,
they
must
take
for
that
Gatsby
is
silly
for
his
blind
love.
He
just
lives
in
his
memory
and
his
imaginary world, which results in his
tragedy. And I do think so.
But when I
come to realization that 1920s was
named after “Jazz” and “Money” era, I change my mind. In
such a
material-driven society, all people are indulged in pleasure
and luxury
while
Gatsby
is
persistent
to
pursue
his
sincere
love
for
Daisy.
That
’
s
maybe the reason why he is great.
One
scene
in
the
book
that
impresses
me
most
is
Gatsby
stand by the
window,
staring
at
the
green
light
hung
at
the
clock
of
Daisy
’
s house
under the moonlight. The green light is a symbolism which
stands for
the
dream
and
hope
in
Gatsby
’
s
heart.
However,
the
green
light is distant and
dim which indicates that the dream is bound to be smashed
eventually.
Gatsby
’
s self-made experience is
so-
called “American Dream”. But
unfortunately,
the
dream
broke
up
at
last.
It
’
s
not
the
tragedy of individual
but
of
the
whole
society,
the
fickle
world
full
of
material
desire.
As
far
as
I
’
m
concerned,
the
author
titling
the
Gatsby
“Great” is to
arouse
the
conscience
of
the
whole
society
to
pursue
sincerity rather than
the
money.
Money
is
a
good
thing,
but
not
everything.
If
you are
fervent
about it, money will finally ruin the most valuable things in
your life.
IV Classical sentences or paragraphs
*We
continue
struggling
forward
on
the
counter-current
and
was continually pushed back until the return to the past
years
* Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that
year by year recedes before
us. It eluded us then, but that
’
s no
matter
--
tomorrow
we
will
run
faster,
stretch
out
our
arms
farther.
* God knows what you’ve been
doing, everything you’ve
been doing. You may
fool me, but you can’t fool God!
* He knew women early, and since they spoiled him he
became
contemptuous
of
them,
of
young
virgins
because
they
were
ignorant,
of
the
others
because
they
were
hysterical
about
things which in his overwhelming self-absorption
he took
for granted.
* Her voice is full of money.
* I believe that on the
first night I went to Gatsby’s house I
was one of the few guests who had
actually been invited. People
were not
invited -- they went there.
* ...personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
* Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
* The rich get richer and the poor get -- children.
*
There
is
no
confusion
like
the
confusion
of
a
simple
mind...
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Disillusionment of the American Dream
——
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry
‘
Lover, gold- hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!
’
—
THOMAS PARKE D
’
INVILLIERS
Author
Recently I read The Great Gatsby, because I have ever seen
the movie, I think I could understand
this book better.
About
its
author
Francis
Scott
Fitzgerald
was
born
on
September
24,
1896
and
died
on
December
21,
1940,
was
regarded as one of the most
significant American writers in the
twentieth
century.
He
was
one
of
the
representative
writers
of
the Lost Generation, and also was the
poet laureate of the Jazz
Age.
Fitzgerald was restrained by two things in all his
life, one
is intelligence; the other
one is money, he was ever possess these
things,
but
lost
them
all
in
the
end.
When
he
dead,
reviewers
criticized his corrupt
life, abandonment and waste his talent. His
fictions reflected the
disillusion of the American Dream vividly, and showed the
spirit of
wilderness era of upper class in the Great
Depression.
The
age,
which
Fitzgerald
possessed
extraordinary
creativity, was a special time in
American history. At that time,
the World War 1 was finished, the Great Depression didn
’
t
come,
the
traditional
puritan
ethics
were
destroyed,
and
the
hedonism be
gan to be popular. In his own words, “it was an age
of
miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of
excess, and it
was
an
age
of
satire.”
And
Fitzgerald
called
this
age
as
“Jazz
Age”,
so he was regarded as the poet laureate of the
Jazz Age.
He realized the eagerness for
romantic of this age observantly,
and
the emptiness and helplessness back of the surface
luxury,
and he reflected these feelings
in his works. His works always
used the
eagerness of the young and idealism as themes,
because
he thought this were
Americans
’
symbol; his works also always
referred to the changing
and disappointment of sentiments, because this was the fate
from
which
people
couldn
’
t
escape
of
that
age.
Background
The
Great
Gatsby
is
Fitzgerald
’
s
most
famous
novel,
is
widely considered to be a literary
classic and a contender for
the title “Great American Novel”. The book is consistently