The Great Gatsby His dream seems close at hand.

"His dream seems to be close at hand, at your fingertips, but I don't know that the dream has left him, leaving him behind, in the boundless chaos behind the city, and the black leaves of China are rolling forward in the dark."

You could have been better, but you just pushed yourself to the last crossroads in your life.

Gates' vision of the future no longer exists, and his dream of farming in an agricultural society-the American dream-has vanished. With the process of industrialization and urbanization, Jefferson's carefully designed Garden of Eden has become a dusty valley described by the author.

Gatsby, he regards Daisy Buchanan as the embodiment of the beauty he pursues. When he met her, he knew that he had combined his unspeakable ideal with her life. He knows that his heart must be as single-minded as God and must not be distracted.

When he kissed her for the first time, "she bloomed for her like a flower, and the embodiment of this ideal was completed". In Daisy, Gatsby's dream becomes flesh and blood, and she pleads with Daisy to realize her dream.

However, Daisy can't play this role at all. She is just a bourgeois lady whose highest goal in life is pleasure. She has no thoughts, no sentiment, shallowness and hypocrisy, and is bored and idle. She can never realize Gatsby's dream at the expense of her vested interests.

Gatsby himself deserves it. Maybe he is not the "son of God", but he just has some great qualities, that is, the will to work hard for his misleading dreams.

He and Daisy's husband Tom Buchanan are both rich. The difference between the two is that he used his wealth to pursue at least one kind of beauty and tried his best to get it, but he didn't get it.

Finally, george wilson, the husband of Tom's mistress, murdered Gatsby with the collusion and instigation of Daisy and his wife. His dream was completely shattered, and the root cause of Gatsby's failure was that his "American Dream" was out of date, and the chance of his dream coming true in his time was slim.

The author's life is intertwined with ambition and reality, success and failure, success and failure, indulgence and despair, love and pain, the contradiction between American civilization and European civilization, the conflict between East and West, dreams and disillusionment, all of which are vividly shown in his novels.

On the surface, Gatsby is just a painting or an episode of the Jazz Age.

This book gives a hearty description of all kinds of corruption in American society at that time, such as selling bootleg liquor, gangs running rampant, farmers leaving their homes and flocking to big cities in the east, the decline of agricultural society, the exposure of the evil consequences of industrialization and urbanization, the brand of money on morality, the cross-flow of property, the supremacy of pleasure and extreme political conservatism.

However, through these phenomena, we can intuitively feel the author's anxiety about the apparent prosperity in the 1920s, his foresight about the 1929 stock crash and the Great Depression that followed, and at the same time, we can deeply feel that it was the end of one era, the beginning of another era, and the decline of American traditional beliefs. Eventually, it inevitably led to the disillusionment of the "American Dream".

The so-called "American Dream" is a belief, a desire and a fantasy. People believe that in this land full of opportunities and wealth, as long as people live by clear codes of conduct, there is reason to achieve material success.

Another theme of the novel is that the author once again reveals the gap and conflict between the east and the west of the United States by symbolic means. This theme runs through all parts of the book, from the characters to the background, from the story to the ending, showing the contradiction between the two. The author expresses this theme through the narrator Nick Karaoui.

The article portrays Nick as a "double-hatted" character, making his works more objective.

At the beginning of the novel, Nick's father quoted a piece of advice to him: Whenever you want to judge others, remember that not all people in the world have your advantages. So Nick developed the habit of keeping his mouth shut and not making wrong judgments, which was one of the reasons why he began to have prejudice against Gatsby and eventually changed.

Nick said that Gatsby represented everything he despised, which was from the heart, not man-made. But Gatsby's final ending was completely correct. It was the thing that chased him and blocked him, the dirty dust that rose after his dream, which made me lose interest in his sudden bankruptcy and fleeting joy.

This dual identity of the narrator enables the author to make full use of the images he has witnessed to express his profound thoughts and feelings.

Mr. Dong quoted Macaulay, an American literary critic, as a vivid metaphor for this dual perspective. He said that the author's novel was like a dance he personally attended, dancing his own tango with the most beautiful girl, standing outside the ballroom, looking at a little boy from the Midwest, with his nose stuck to the glass window of the ballroom, wondering how much the ticket would cost. ...

The artistic achievement of the article lies in the use of language.

For example, Nick saw Gatsby standing on the beach looking at the green light on Daisy's pier: "I didn't say hello to him, because suddenly he gave me the feeling that he didn't want anyone to disturb him-he stretched out his arms to the dark sea in a strange way. Although I am far away from him, I am sure that he is shaking. I can't help looking at the seaside, where there is nothing but a green light. The light is dim, far away, maybe the end of a pier. When I got back to Gatsby, he was gone. On this restless night, I am the only one left. "

For example, the scene of Gatsby's banquet, the faces of all kinds of people attending the banquet, and the explanation of Gatsby's behavior at the end of the banquet are all vividly described: "I looked back once. A full moon shines on Gatsby's villa, the night is still beautiful, the garden is still brightly lit, and the laughter has disappeared. A sudden sense of emptiness seems to be pouring out from the window and the huge crack in the door, giving the owner a completely isolated lonely image. He is standing on the porch at the moment, raising his arm and raising his hand in a formal farewell gesture. "

And the quarrel between Gatsby and Tom at the hotel showdown; Finally, Nick's aria monologue. Brilliant, well-written and unforgettable.

There is also the use of symbols. Everything in this book is symbolic.

Gatsby's luxury villa was originally built and lived by an upstart. Gatsby bought it for Daisy's sake and decorated it in imitation of European style. The two men confronted each other across a beach, and the confrontation was shattered. This collision represents the fierce conflict between old and new wealth owners, between dreams and reality.

The dusty valley between Long Island and new york is a barren land for ordinary people. As a result of capitalist industrialization, george wilson, who lived there, repaired cars for Tom's generation who traveled between new york and Long Island, and finally gave his wife and life to lust and violence.

Dr. Eichelberg's eyes are the main symbol of the novel, because the main characters in the novel are blind, they can't see themselves and the people and things around them clearly, and their behavior is blind, while the doctor overlooks the lifeless and morally corrupt world described by the author.

Wilson regarded these eyes as the symbol of just trial, and carried out God's judgment without hesitation. As a result, he killed Gatsby by mistake

In the whole novel, only Nick has an eye, but it took him a long time to see the people and things around him.

Although the ending of the novel is nostalgic, the author clearly sees that with the completion of industrialization and urbanization in the United States, the original values and living standards must change.

Through the disillusionment of Gatsby's dream, the author declared the bankruptcy of the old way of life. No matter how lofty his dream is, it has the nature of the American dream, but it is absurd.

This book profoundly describes the negative influence of money and shows us the great corrosive effect of money on the main characters and society in the novel.

Excerpt from The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald