A poor boy, in the best golden age of his life, has experienced love and can not, worked hard to become a millionaire, and the first love of the old love rekindled, and soon died desolate and lonely. This is The Great Gatsby. Some people say of the author Fitzgerald: "Between his beautiful prose and poetry, there is always a trickle of sadness, and behind the description of a happy and joyful life, there is often a sense of disillusionment, a sad pity." ”
Literature is not only a literary work, it is also a good teacher and friend who educates and guides us. Life is short, Gatsby's brilliant and lonely life, revealing the three truths of life, see through it, may be able to make your life go more and more smoothly.
1, money gives you the confidence to love and choose
Sanmao once said: "The comedy in the world can be produced without money, and most of the tragedies in the world are inseparable from money." ”
Money is not omnipotent, but to a large extent, it can influence the survival of a relationship and affect the direction of a person's life.
While serving in the army, Gatsby fell in love with the famous Daisy. Despite their affection, Daisy's parents looked down on the penniless young lieutenant. So, shortly after Gatsby was sent to the front, Daisy was arranged by her parents to marry the rich second generation Tom, who had a lot of money.
Filled with resentment, Gatsby vowed to become rich and win back the hearts of his lover. Fortunately, he received help from the nobles, and in just a few years he made a lot of money and bought a palace-like mansion. Celebrities came uninvited and took pride in knowing him. And Daisy, who met Gates, after seeing his wealth, could not help but have the intention of reliving old dreams with him.
Seeing this, I suddenly remembered a very poignant sentence: "What money tells you is the truth of the world, it is gentle and cruel." When you are radiant, happiness and the other shore are at hand; when you fall into the mud, love and dignity cannot be retained. ”
Just like Gatsby, once because of poverty, he could only watch his lover leave him. Later, after having money, you can love, choose, and make up for shortcomings.
2) Self-discipline is true freedom
There is a strange phenomenon: the more accomplished and accomplished people are, the more rhythmic and controllable their lives seem to be. Self-discipline, like a key, can open up the infinite possibilities of life.
Why is the writer Haruki Murakami so outstanding and maintains a huge creative production? This is inseparable from his schedule and time arrangement. Haruki Murakami had two extremely important things in his life: one was to write novels, and the other was to run.
So, what is Murakami's time management like? He "wakes up at five in the morning and goes to bed before ten o'clock in the evening." Murakami said it was just a natural habit.
Gatsby, able to be rich, and meet noble people again and again, boost his life career, in addition to the "lucky" blessing, but also inseparable from his self-discipline life.
In order to get rid of the poverty of the bottom, Gatsby has developed an extremely strict advanced plan for himself. He stipulated that he would get up at 6:00 a day, exercise for 1 hour, study for 1 hour, and then work. In his spare time, he devoted his energy to reading and researching, and used every minute and second to the extreme.
When self-discipline becomes a habit, life will automatically gradually enter a better state; when self-discipline becomes a habit, life is like boiling water, thriving. Because self-discipline is like boiling this pot of water in life 90% of the time, boiling is in an instant.
In fact, the self-disciplined person is the one who really masters freedom. Every person who strives upwards and has a high degree of self-discipline will not be disappointed by fate. Only those who can control themselves can control life and win the life they want.
3, obsession can make you, but also can destroy you
In the summer of 1922, Gatsby's dream was shattered and he died. His friend Nick is so grief-stricken that he implores Gatsby's friends to come to the funeral and give him one last ride. But those who used to be drunk in Gatsby's villa either excused themselves or didn't even answer the phone, or even more, directly ridiculed Gatsby for his death.
Even more chilling is the Daisy that Gatsby has pursued all his life. In order to clear up her relationship with Gatsby, she not only did not want to see the last side of Gatsby, but also allowed others to frame Gatsby.
Daisy's obsession inspired him to work hard and successfully become a rich man, but it also made his property and life disappear so lonely.
At this moment, Nick's heart was sincere. His friend was gone, and everything was disillusioned. He had calmly and rationally analyzed Gatsby, but now he truly felt a romantic, simple, persistent and noble soul.
In the end, he saw through the warmth and coldness of these human feelings, saw through the hypocritical faces and the cold greed of human nature, and resolutely left New York, a city shrouded in materialism.
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Gatsby's life, whether it is sadness or success, it is difficult to say clearly in three words, too much sorrow makes us sympathize and regret, but there are also too many positives worth emulating and learning. For example, his self-discipline, desperate for the sake of his dreams, broke the boat.
"The Great Gatsby" is a masterpiece by the American writer Fitzgerald. Haruki Murakami once said that if I hadn't met The Great Gatsby, the novels I would have written would have been completely different from what I am now, or maybe I wouldn't have written anything about.
Literature is not only a literary work, it is also a mirror of our lives, while watching the fate of others, we also remember to examine our own lives.