The Great Gatsby is his (Fitzgerald)'s best novel, which keenly captures themes of contemporary social life and symbolically presents the irony and melancholy beneath the legend of the American Dream.
- Oxford Dictionary of American Literature
A peculiar book. A mysterious and shining story. He writes beautifully — he does it in style, because he writes naturally and grasps the situation to the extreme.
—Edwin Clarke, The New York Times Book Review
The author began to write with an almost bland beginning, the first half of the unhurried preparation, until the second half, the book began to show its unique charm, through the first half of the foreshadowing, so that each character in the text is extremely delicate and full, many plots in the book echo back and forth. The book is more about the American life of that era, the unrealistic "American Dream" of Americans.
In order to pursue the love lost by his humble origins when he was young, Gatsby did not hesitate to obtain a large amount of money and desperately joined the upper class. However, when he became an "upstart", he found that the disparity in the door had become a gap that he could never cross, and his love had become the wife of the upper class of society. Therefore, Gatsby invites the whole social elite to be a fan of the whole society every day in his villa, just to wait for one day when the woman he likes can come to his eyes.
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Gatsby seems to have been searching for love all his life, but in fact, is what he is really pursuing only love? Or is it the pursuit of the high society behind Daisy? I think he was desperately trying to get into the upper class, just to prove it to himself, to "Daisy", who had rejected him because of his poverty.
This story is destined to be a tragedy, first of all, the background of this story comes from the American high society in the twenties, the pursuit of material enjoyment, the social atmosphere is not correct; secondly, Gatsby's ideal is not to realize the American dream, but to find the love lost due to poverty, and it is more incompatible with the upper class; finally, Gatsby holds a banquet every day, but has no friends, and even the celebrities who come to the banquet are scornful of him, for no other reason, simply because the social class has long been solidified Gatsby was destined to be a tragic figure who had been destroyed by society.
With the help of the novel, the author makes a vivid critique of the selfish indifference of high society, thus further negating the American dream.
Maybe what you have is the green light that others have been searching for all their lives, so what you already have is what you want to have? What you're after is what you're after? How joyful it is in dreams, how lonely it is in reality. So, selfish me, kind me, sad me, and stubborn me, which one is the real me?
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