The great Gatsby, to those who pursue their dreams

Everyone once had a beautiful dream, but some people were able to put it into action. When Gatsby was young, he set a timetable for himself.

It is no wonder that a person can plan and accurately plan his time to such a fine degree and put it into action. Because self-control has always been something that human beings lack, most people will give it up after a period of persistence.

Like many people, I always thought The Great Gatsby was a personal biography of Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. Later, I learned from a book excerpt that it was a book reflecting the 192s in the United States and one of the most elegant and popular English works in the world. Everyone has his own idea of Hamlet, which is a book criticizing monetarism, a book attacking drunkenness, a book reflecting the strangulation of the old forces to the new generation, and a book telling a love story ... This famous book, which has been circulating for nearly a hundred years, has already had various interpretations.

In the 192s, just after the First World War, the policy of resolving conflicts between countries through diplomacy and law formulated by the United States played an initial role in the international arena, and the world was under the illusion of peace. The rapid economic development, material richness and uncertainty about the future in the United States have made that generation of Americans live in peace and enjoyment, and lead a drunken life and die in the current life of drunkenness. The author Fitzgerald called that era "Jazz Age".

In such an era, the author told the story of that summer from the perspective of a man named Nick. The description in the article says that Nick is a poor man, but from the perspective that his father is an alumnus of Yale and he graduated from Yale, he should also belong to the elite of society. Nick went to new york to study securities business, and lived in a shabby house on East Egg Island not far from the outskirts of new york. There lived many young people like Nick who went to new york to look for opportunities. But next door to Nick, it is a mansion where a mysterious rich man lives.

There are many traditional aristocrats and rich people living on West Egg Island, which is symmetrical to East Egg Island. Nick has a distant cousin Daisy, who is very beautiful, married Tom, an alumnus whom Nick is not familiar with, and lives on that island. As a relative, Nick visited Daisy's family, where he met the golf champion and fashion girl Jordan. Nick soon found out that Daisy was not happy in this luxurious big house. Tom obviously had a lover outside, and he didn't shy away from calling at lunch.

Nick soon met Tom's lover. It was in the middle of the road between West Egg Island and new york, next to a valley made of ashes, and there was a repair shop that bought and sold second-hand cars. Wilson, the owner of the car shop, wanted Tom's second-hand car very much, but he didn't know that Tom had taken a fancy to his wife, Mrs. Wilson, a plump, enchanting and energetic woman, who seemed to be extremely incompatible with the owner of the car shop. Tom took Nick and Mrs. Wilson unabashedly, and invited some friends to drink and revel in an apartment. He has a mistress, which is indeed well known.

At Daisy's house, Jordan also mentioned the mysterious rich man next door to Nick. It turned out that his name was Gatsby, the protagonist in the book. Nick soon saw Gatsby's back. It was a deep night. Gatsby looked out at the sea and seemed to be embracing a green light at the end of the pier on West Egg Island. It was a long time before Nick realized that the green light should be Daisy's. There was a brief love between Nick and Jordan, and it soon died.

Gatsby's mansion hosts a big banquet every week, and boxes of fruits and food are transported to the mansion on Friday night. Then Gatsby's super-large and super-realistic car will pick up and drop off all kinds of guests all day, including those who don't want to turn off, those who don't know, and even many who come to join in the fun when they hear the news. Perhaps this is more like a free party. One day, Nick was invited to this party, which was a real insight into the luxury of the party. Later, Nick realized that Gatsby's purpose in doing all this was to attract Nick's cousin Daisy.

Daisy and Gatsby knew each other before the First World War. At that time, Daisy was a rich girl and a heartthrob in her hometown. Gatsby was just a poor boy serving in the army. Although Daisy had a beautiful appearance in the book, she was a representative of ignorance, indifference and money. I didn't understand why she liked such a person at that time. Perhaps everyone had a primitive emotion hidden in his heart. But even if they were together, it probably wouldn't last long, so Gatsby went to the battlefield and came back to find that Daisy had married into a rich family.

Gatsby, with his own opportunities, efforts and knowledge, soon accumulated huge wealth. Perhaps he thought that he was worthy of Daisy, so he bought a mansion here, facing each other from afar, but he didn't have the courage to visit, so he held a big banquet in the hope that Daisy would come one day. But Daisy never came. Perhaps those born rich people have their own world of life and are not interested in these new generations.

It was through Nick that Gatsby and Daisy met in Nick's shabby house. Gatsby, who had always been calm and calm, suddenly became nervous and incoherent, like a schoolboy who had just fallen in love. Daisy also missed the old friendship, especially after seeing Gatsby's luxurious mansion. Daisy is not happy, her husband Tom is having an affair again, and she really loves Gatsby, but now Gatsby has such strength. Looking at Daisy, Gatsby suddenly felt that so many years of hard work had not been in vain, and happiness might be within reach.

Gatsby and Daisy are getting closer and closer, and Daisy even brought Tom to Gatsby's grand banquet. In the constant communication, Tom also saw the relationship between them, so he began to fight back and let people investigate Gatsby's life experience. As a born rich man, he doesn't allow a rising star to take Daisy away from him.

The conflict finally started in Tom's mansion. Gatsby, Nick and Jordan were guests at Tom's house. Daisy expressed her admiration for Gatsby unabashedly, which made Tom very angry and provoked him. In order to ease the atmosphere, Daisy proposed to visit new york City and take a car with Gatsby. Nick and Tom were on their way to new york City, and when they passed the garage with ashes, Wilson told Tom irritably that he had discovered that his wife might have an abnormal relationship outside, and he wanted to move out of this place with her.

In a moment, both the lover and the wife will leave their arms, which makes Tom feel very uneasy. In an apartment in new york City, the conflict continued. Tom pressed Gatsby step by step, pointing out that as a newly rich man, Gatsby's money was unknown, and it was probably closely related to some underworld or illegal transactions. When Daisy, who was still infatuated with Gatsby, heard about it, her feelings immediately wavered and Tom gained the upper hand.

On the way back to West Egg Island, Tom generously asked Gatsby and Daisy to drive another car back. On the way, Mrs. Wilson thought Tom was driving, so she rushed up and tried to stop and say hello, but it was Daisy who actually drove. This sudden situation caught Daisy off guard and killed Mrs. Wilson on the spot, but she didn't stop and left. Gatsby tried to take it on himself and was afraid that Tom would go back and blame Daisy, but he stayed at Tom's door all night and found that their home was very calm.

Later, Mr. Wilson went to Tom's door according to the characteristics of the vehicle found by witnesses, and Tom hinted that Gatsby had a car like that at home. So in Gatsby's swimming pool, Wilson shot Gatsby and killed himself.

That summer's story ended. So many things happened, but Tom and Daisy went out to travel without anything. Perhaps the tragedies of the poor and Gatsby who tried to get rid of their fate had nothing to do with them. Compared with those grand, luxurious and lively banquets, there were few guests at Gatsby's funeral. Perhaps this is the real society and life, and human feelings are so indifferent.

outside this book, a few years later, the global economic crisis broke out, followed by World War II. Those short-lived prosperity and peace were just like Nan Ke's dream, and the tragedy after the final carnival was already doomed. The author has already felt that the crisis is about to happen.

In any case, the hero, Mr. Gatsby, is so brave in pursuing his dream that he is really a great man.

We also have dreams, and we have made plans like Gatsby's. Will we persist and pursue them without hesitation? Just like insisting on the daily shift every working day for three months, I finally stopped in the endless overtime before the end of the year.