After reading "The Great Gatsby", I feel that I only read the translation, not the English original. The biggest feeling is that the translation is so short, more than 400 pages of short stories. I don't think Gatsby is great. He was just used as a chess piece by others, living in his own dream of mandarin ducks and butterflies. Then he accidentally became a warrior to protect his beloved woman, and finally he was killed by mistake and dyed the pool red. In short, a tragic and dramatic life.
Generally speaking, the heroine of the story is beautiful, generous, kind and caring, but she capsized here. This woman named Daisy is also beautiful, and many men have been dumped by her, but I think she is a femme fatale, who knows how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages and how to calculate. She should know exactly who her husband Tom Buchanan's mistress is. I even think that she deliberately killed her husband's mistress with a car, because she expected Gatsby, the man who kept thinking about her every year, to take the fall for her. This woman loves herself so much that she doesn't want to suffer a little, so she mediates between two men and pretends to be gentle and dignified. Birds of a feather flock together. I think Daisy and Tom are really a good match. They are all selfish and boastful people.
Gatsby, a bit hypocritical, packaged himself as a successful person for a woman, entertained celebrities and successful people every night, and finally almost convinced himself that he was born with a golden spoon in his mouth. He has a leading role aura since he was born and has been living in the upper class. Feasting, but he is still lonely, because on the other side of the river, he is too persistent to wait for a beautiful woman who refuses to turn back. After he was killed by mistake, few people even came to his funeral. It's lonely and the setting sun shines. He came alone and ended up alone. It is no wonder that someone who weaved his own dream network fell into the abyss.
After reading The Great Gatsby, I officially came into contact with this book this summer vacation. I first learned his name in a hot TV series, in which the male host has been collecting this book. I don't think I have read this book, so I don't understand the significance of his appearance at the moment. Curiosity made me want to find out. Then, it also proves that a good book is worthy of repeated scrutiny, and it is presented to you from the perspective of film, and the film adapted from this novel is also well received.
The main line of the story is that Gatsby, a handsome young officer, meets a beautiful lady Daisy and falls in love with her. This officer comes from an ordinary family. Due to various fates, Daisy, who loves money and material things, married a man without humanity. In a series of conspiracies, Gatsby was shot and finally Daisy never attended his funeral, which was very sad. This is undoubtedly an ironic story: times let people only know what money is, but ignore love. It is generally believed that money can bring a sense of security, but love is always in a crisis of disaster, and it is always right to protect yourself wisely. The author is so disappointed with this luxurious atmosphere and grandiose age.
I didn't see Gatsby's greatness after reading more than half of it, until I finally understood what this man really thought. It is more like a simple pursuit and persistence of inner fantasy, unwilling to break it and stubborn to the end, so it is full of courage and makes people feel brave.
Gatsby believes in this green light, a future that fades year by year before our eyes. In our life, we sometimes encounter frightening, sighing or sad moments, and the warmth that can be touched around us at this time always makes us unforgettable. For example, the author felt sad after seeing what happened to Daisy. At this time, Jordan's affection and companionship made his heart warmer, and he was more eager to forget, just like his mother stroking her hair or neck. I long for such warmth. Perhaps, as people often say, life is full of pain and triviality, but the happiness we touch occasionally is so beautiful that we can live willingly.
The Great Gatsby is the representative work of American writer F Scott Fitzgerald. Through Gatsby's personal love tragedy, the novel reveals the essence of the "American Dream" and the social reality of the United States in the 1920s. In the process of reflecting and highlighting this social phenomenon, Fitzgerald uses a lot of color symbols, among which green and "a green light" run through the whole text, and they are all inked at the main plot turning point. With its unique symbolic meaning, the author skillfully combines these greens with the characters, plots and environment in the novel, forming a new and unique symbolic meaning, which not only highlights and deepens the theme of the novel, but also makes the novel full of hazy and dreamy feelings.
Whether in eastern culture or western culture, green is the color of spring, symbolizing confidence, vitality and hope. In the novel, green runs through and is closely related to Gatsby's short life, from the beginning symbolizing his ideals and hopes, to the pursuit of his dreams, and finally to the disillusionment of his dreams. Green first appeared when Gatsby 17 years old. At that time, Gatsby was young, full of hope for the future, and firmly believed in the American dream of success as long as he worked hard. At that time, Gatsby was working in the field in a "shabby green sweatshirt". The green color at this time makes people feel full of energy and confidence. This green color symbolizes Gates' hope and confidence in the future. Another kind of green closely related to Gatsby and even the whole theme is a green lamp, and this lamp on Daisy Pier has replaced Daisy, which is Gatsby's long-standing admiration and lifelong pursuit and dream. And this all-night lamp guides Gatsby to do his best to pursue it, and this green light is his hope. But from another point of view, this "green light" is always "distant" and "weak", which also symbolizes the "distant" and "weak" of Gatsby's dream to some extent.
After reading The Great Gatsby, I accidentally read The Great Gatsby. I wanted to kill time by reading in my spare time, but my father's original advice interested me: when you comment on others, remember that not all people have your advantages. I like watching Gatsby Stand by and The Green Light on Daisy's Pier. I like watching him "stretch out his arm in a strange way". I like that kind of surprise and longing. I like the unknown lights of Gatsby House all night, and I like the music and laughter in the wind coming from the garden, so I am drunk and dreaming. And Gatsby's loneliness and repressed desire hidden behind all this prosperity. I like the human feelings after death, and I like to watch the car on the other side of the world come to the door of the mansion, but I didn't find that the wonderful banquet had already ended. I also like the language, metaphor, story-telling way and exquisite but meticulous structure in the book. Only by reading it repeatedly will you find that everyone in the original is not only plump and independent, but also trapped in the plot and becomes a part of it.
When I opened the last page of The Great Gatsby, I inexplicably recalled reading Nikolai Nikolai Gogol's Neva Street one autumn night a year ago. When I witnessed the passion of a simple and weak young man being completely shattered by the absurdity of reality in the charming street lamps and noisy crowds on Neva Avenue, I felt an indescribable emotion, leaving me nowhere to hide. Pisca Lev has been looking for a glimpse all his life. Then, I came to a conclusion that I was a little flustered that night: I should give up saving people, because not many people are willing to expand their dreams, including love, under the blue sky. The helpless yearning with ideal nature and the efforts to change others will always become pale and absurd.
After reading The Great Gatsby, the book inevitably gives me the feeling that "I guessed the beginning, but I didn't guess the end".
The full text is quoted by "I". When I opened the book, I felt interested from the beginning. When I first started reading this book, I was puzzled-why did a book about Gatsby start with such a long story, telling the story of Daisy and her husband Tom and "me"? Going deeper along the lines of the font, I found more than that. In the middle of my reading, I learned about Gatsby's five-year emotional misunderstanding with Daisy. Gatsby raves every night just to get the attention of Daisy, the owner of the green light on the other side. Later, Gatsby and Daisy resumed their lover relationship. Until the end, a car accident ended the story between the group. It was Daisy who killed Tom's mistress Mertel after a party. Mertel's husband thought Gatsby killed his wife, so he shot Gatsby while he was swimming, and then committed suicide. At the end of the story, everyone left the town and started a new life.
Nick-that is, "I"-is both an authority and a bystander of this long story. He knows the whole story of the accident, the relationship between everyone and the details of all the events. He just doesn't know much. He wondered why there were only a few people at Gatsby's funeral. He doesn't know why Daisy, who loves Gatsby deeply, didn't come to see Gatsby for the last time. He doesn't know why the Tom family left after Gatsby's death. He doesn't even know.
This story shows us the vanity and affectation of the rich. I saw the absurdity of an era, the fall of a generation of minions, a deteriorated love and a tragedy of life.
I thought it would be a beautiful book, but it broke away from my beauty immediately after a dull start. It reveals to me the essence between people and the cruelty of human nature. How do I feel about all this? Just let nature take its course, look straight at everything and face everything.
I have to say that this book has benefited me a lot.
After reading The Great Gatsby, I haven't written an article for a long time, mainly because I am too busy and have a lot to learn.
I want to write about Gatsby that I have read recently. This book gives me a tragic feeling, but why is it tragic? We can imagine an American capitalist who has experienced social struggle. In order to pursue the former goddess, he built a house opposite the goddess and held a party all night, hoping to let his goddess see it. But the end of the story is Gatsby's death, and the curse of his death is because of his goddess and her husband. I don't think this fictional story will happen in the real world, because people who have experienced social baptism will understand many things and can't force them. This is the reality of life, and many things are always unsatisfactory. I want to do good, but Mo Wen's future is enough.
Why do I think Gatsby is miserable? Because the goddess he likes is abstract, not realistic, and the goddess he thinks doesn't exist, I think that's why some people say that when Gatsby dies, some people think that the American dream is shattered. I think it is ridiculous that a capitalist who has experienced so much will really pursue his first love goddess, which is simply unimaginable. With so many temptations around him, his heart will not change. In fact, to put it bluntly, Gatsby loves himself, and only his inner goddess of first love can satisfy his inner desire to conquer, but he failed and devoted his whole life to it. This is Gatsby. I think it's Gatsby.
The green light that Gatsby believes in is a blissful future that gradually disappears before our eyes year after year. We can't catch up with it all the time, but it doesn't matter-tomorrow we will run faster and reach out longer ... until a beautiful morning-
So we strive to move forward, but like sailing against the current, we are destined to keep going back to the past.
After reading The Great Gatsby, Haruki Murakami called Fitzgerald his "literature teacher", which benefited from the so-called reality, although in different ways.
In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby gets wealth and success, but he can't recover his lost love. Fitzgerald has American humor, but always shows bitterness. The process of pursuing is indomitable, but the result of disillusionment is sinking. Under the gilded cloak of breaking the "American dream", it is actually cold and selfish everywhere. The pure utopian ideal is fragile in reality and doomed to be broken. Some people see through everything, while others are always immersed in that huge lie and dream. You can't tell whether this is sadness or happiness.
In Fitzgerald's view, wealth-whether born or later-is not like a weapon, but more like a disease, which ultimately leads not to the realization of dreams, but to their disillusionment. This is the greatness of Fitzgerald. He started from the individual and created a type; He found a truth from this type. That is to say, in any era-the "jazz age" when money is drunk, or today's materialistic world-money is not enough to trust. What it takes from you will be more precious than what it gives you. As he wrote in a novel, "most people's lives end in compromise, but his life begins in compromise." He did retain a little compromise and fantasy, and he still had the last feeling of beauty and sadness, so his hero was deeply immersed in it even though the ending was so simple and heartbreaking.
Reflections on The Great Gatsby I finished reading The Great Gatsby by American writer F Scott Fitzgerald today.
The story took place in the United States in the 1920s, when the American economy entered unprecedented prosperity and material wealth. Gatsby was born a commoner. After World War I, he became a nouveau riche five years later, got rid of the poor family, became one of the upper classes of the rich, started a life of singing every night, and realized his dream.
However, there is still an important part missing in his dream, that is, the goddess Daisy in his heart, a rich girl he met when he was a poor boy. At that time, Gatsby wanted to take part in accidental amusement, but in the process of communication, he fell in love with Daisy deeply, knowing that he was like a moth to a fire but could not extricate himself, and was determined to be a person worthy of Daisy. When Gatsby became rich, he found Daisy, who married a rich man. Gatsby tried his best to get Daisy back, but after all, they were not in the same class. His goddess is actually a selfish, money-worshipping and hedonistic person. As a traditional rich class, he can't share joys and sorrows with an upstart like Gatsby. Gatsby was shot after an accident.
Daisy's house is only separated from Gatsby by a bay, and there is always a green light on Daisy's dock that never goes out all night. Gatsby looked at the green light in a trance every night. Green Light is Gatsby's dream to guard every night, and it is also the happiness he pursues all his life. He stretched out his arms to the green light. He wanted to stretch it further and further. ...
Gatsby's disillusionment represents the disillusionment of an American generation.
Today, with the rapid economic development and rapid material enrichment, where is the green light representing our dreams? Is it broken?
After reading The Great Gatsby, I feel 9 years old. I scribbled on the paper, and I didn't have a clue. Many ideas have nothing to extend, confused ideas and lack of knowledge points. So I decided to write down my feelings about reading in recent days, calm down and think about it, stick to reading and exercise, which may be something I am proud of.
I watched The Great Gatsby again two days ago. I always thought Gatsby could keep his love for Daisy in the noisy and flashy capitalist world. He's great.
After reading it, I was deeply impressed by several points. Gatsby sends many clothes, silk and flannel from the other side of the Atlantic every year. Daisy came to Gatsby's castle, and Gatsby said, "She makes everything shine, doesn't she?" Gatsby started throwing these clothes at her crazily. The clip of losing clothes seems to be venting, saying, look, this is what you yearn for, and it's all for you! Now I can finally pursue you formally, and now I can finally stand in front of you. Gatsby has been a fool for five years. In Gatsby's eyes, Lucy, who has become a wife, is still the pure and shining beautiful star when she was young and had nothing.
The past five years are vivid in Daisy's mind, but in the end what she got was "I have never seen such beautiful clothes". Maybe Daisy loved him five years ago. Now all she wants is money, status, fame and love. Finally, she betrayed his love and even life in the face of fame and crisis.
Some people say that Gatsby is obsessed with the beauty of disillusionment, which leads him to ruin step by step. On the contrary, he remained sincere and believed in love after his success.
As the book says, "If you want to love someone, you have to think clearly whether you are willing to give up your heart as free as God for her, and then you are willing to have a fetter." When Gatsby turned to his friend Nick, "She makes everything shine, doesn't she?" Nick didn't say anything. I want to say here, yes.
Reflection on The Great Gatsby 10 The story described in The Great Gatsby took place in the 1920s. The story is unfolded from Nick's point of view. Nick came to new york from his hometown in the Midwest. Next to his residence is Gatsby's mansion. In his mansion, Gatsby holds a grand banquet every night. Then I met Gatsby by chance.
This is the beginning of the twists and turns of the story. Gatsby told Nick that when he was young, he was a second lieutenant and fell in love with Daisy, a girl. They loved each other deeply. But it didn't last long. He was transferred to Europe, and Daisy married Tom, a rich boy. When Gatsby came back, Daisy had changed her understanding of love because of money and abandoned her initial love with Gatsby. He was deeply saddened when he learned the news. In order to save his love with Daisy, he vowed to become a rich man. After several years of hard work, he really became a rich man. Nick was moved by Gatsby after hearing the story of Gatsby and Daisy. Daisy happened to be his cousin, so he contacted his long-lost cousin Daisy. At first, Daisy and Gatsby had a heated conversation. But then Nick found that Daisy was getting more and more wrong, but it was too late. Daisy killed her husband Tom's mistress, and Tom framed Gatsby. Gatsby was finally killed, and Daisy was smiling.
This book tells us that people are multifaceted and can't just look at the surface. Is there an ugly self in everyone's heart? How should we face him? This puzzled me, and I'm still thinking about it.
Teacher's comment: Chen Zecong has given me this article for some time and asked him to revise it several times. Although there are not many changes each time, every change feels better than the original reading. Read more books, think more and write more articles.
Comments on The Great Gatsby 1 1 This book is very famous and was written 100 years ago. It is said that it was not very famous at that time, but it was later considered as a classic novel. This book is easy to read and the story is not complicated. The main story is about a man named Gatsby, who was separated from his beloved woman because he was a soldier and poor. After a few years, he became rich, bought a bigger house opposite the woman's big house, and invited strangers around him to have various parties at home in order to have a chance to meet his first love. And the author is the bond of two first loves. After they met, the woman killed her husband's mistress because of family conflicts, but Gatsby died because of her love. Finally, the woman and her husband left West Egg, and the author felt that everyone was so dirty except Gatsby.
Okay, what I said is still not concise enough. It shows that my narrative ability is very general. Okay, I'll do it again.
A man named Gatsby tried his best to get close to his first love. As a result, in an accident, the first love car killed her husband's mistress, and Gatsby was killed as the scapegoat for the first love. The first love returned to a quiet life and did not even attend his funeral.
All novels will be a little unexpected in plot and ending, or they will not become novels. The ending of this story is like this, which I didn't expect. The plot setting is also interesting.
For example, on the day of the incident, Tom learned that his wife and his first love had rekindled and wanted to show him a showdown; He also learned that his mistress was found cheating by her husband and restricted her freedom. In one day, he may face the risk of losing two women. So he became nervous and panicked.
For example, I forgot
The title is The Great Gatsby. Where is he great?
At first, I thought The Great Gatsby was a story about Bill Gates. I bought this book because I wanted to know more about Bill Gates. I didn't expect The Great Gatsby to be an American contemporary novel. At the end of the 20th century, American academic authorities selected the 100 best novels The Great Gatsby in the long history of English literature. I made a modest joke. Whether it's about Bill Gates or not, it's always a masterpiece, but I only read the first 50 pages of this book, and I can't read it anymore. I really don't know how this book can have such a high evaluation. I didn't change my mind until I saw the movie of the same name the other day. I like the green light in the movie. Because of that green light, I picked up the original and watched it again. I hope I can feel different this time!
I read this book for a week, and I finally finished it. The biggest feeling is that the film version is very good and loyal to the original. I couldn't have finished reading the book if I hadn't seen the film first.
After reading other people's feelings about this book, I can't write anything because of its height and depth I just feel sorry for Gatsby and ruined my life for an unworthy gold digger! A little understanding of the upper class, unreasonable, selfish, arrogant and indifferent, such a world, such a group of people, really chilling!
The Great Gatsby is a novella written by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. The story takes place in new york City and Long Island in the 1920s. The background of the novel is set in the white circle of upper middle class in modern American society, and it is unfolded through Karaoui's narration. The publication of The Great Gatsby established F. Scott Fitzgerald's position in the history of modern American literature. He became the spokesman of the jazz age in the 1920s and one of the representative writers of the lost generation. At the end of the 20th century, American academic authorities selected hundreds of best novels in the history of English literature, and The Great Gatsby ranked second and proudly ranked among the contemporary classics.
Comments on The Great Gatsby 13 For Daisy, Gatsby's sudden appearance five years later is like a stone accidentally falling into the lake. After a brief ripple, the lake was as calm as ever.
However, for Gatsby, his stone sank to the bottom of the lake forever, into the layered mud at the bottom of the lake, and that green light no longer existed.
The heavy air cushion floats irregularly, and there are faint ripples everywhere. A breeze blew, hardly wrinkling the water surface, but disturbing its accidental voyage, although it was still full of accidental burdens. A few leaves fell on it, making it rotate slowly, drawing a reddish circle in the water, just like the legs of a compass.
In America, anyone who is diligent and persistent can have a better life. In the first half of Gatsby's life, he insisted on such an American dream, which perhaps catalyzed Daisy's fantasy and eventually became the great Mr. Gatsby. But when Tom and Daisy retreated to money, great indifference or anything else to get along with each other, the world returned to the predetermined track.
I think when Gatsby first invited Daisy to his house, he had foreseen the ending. Reality is cruel and ugly. He paid a painful price for dreaming for too long, knowing that he was sailing against the current. As it turns out, Nick's idea, "I think he is afraid that they will turn into an alley and drive out of his life forever", is just too much.
I was sitting on the beach dreaming of an ancient and unknown world, and suddenly I thought of Gatsby. He must have been very surprised when he first saw the green light at the end of Daisy Pier. He came all the way to this blue harbor, and he must feel that his dream is close at hand, and he can almost reach out and grab it. What he didn't know was that his dream had fallen behind him, on the vast land west of new york, and on the endless Yuan Ye in the United States under the cover of night. So we strive to move forward, but like sailing against the current, we are destined to keep going back to the past.
So the song ended.
Comments on The Great Gatsby 14 Gatsby's greatness lies in his persistent pursuit of dreams-a rich life, which he and Daisy made in their hearts when they were madly in love. His love for her is irreplaceable by anyone. She is like a belief and a dream, which makes Gatsby pursue and grow constantly.
Gatsby is very compassionate. He warmly and generously entertained all kinds of people who came to the party, but he was framed by all kinds of rumors and made up his life experience out of nothing. Even when his name was mentioned, he only heard the sound of glasses colliding.
Gatsby is admirable. Not everyone can do what he asks of himself. He is self-disciplined, strong, filial and purposeful. Therefore, it is completely justified that Gatsby can acquire a lot of wealth. Because I can insist on doing this little thing, I feel great.
Gatsby's ending is sad. He thinks that great men have friends all over the world, but in fact there are only a handful of true confidants. All his friends before his death became passers-by. As the man who is of great significance to Gatsby's life said, "We must understand that people live to talk about friendship, and people die without friendship." He said meaningfully. "My own principle is that I don't care about anything when people die." People are pathetic, selfish, poor caterpillars.
People in this era live a snobbish life addicted to money and pleasure. In this world, people are singing and dancing all the time, singing and dancing all the year round. This is irony.
Everything is because of selfishness, indifference and confusion. They are selfish and indifferent people. They smash things, ruin other people's lives, and then retreat into money, great indifference or anything that makes them get along, and let others clean up the mess they left behind. ...
After reading The Great Gatsby, I also read this book a long time ago. The composition of the story is very vague until now, only knowing that it is a love story that I can't get. But I never understood Gatsby's greatness.
But I think this book has such a high evaluation, and it is not just a simple story of a man pursuing his beloved woman. I think I'm too superficial to understand what this story is about. So, I went through the story again.
To tell the truth, this story is not my favorite story with a happy ending. But after reading it, I still feel uneasy and want to vent my emotions through a channel. I can't explain why a story ends in such a sad and natural way.
There is a scene in the story that makes me feel nervous when I think about it now. It's like I was at the scene, watching the story happen and holding my breath nervously. At Nick's house, Gatsby finally wants to meet the sweetheart he has been waiting for-Daisy, a married woman who still can't let go.
Through the author's brush strokes, you can feel Nick's expectation and nervousness at that time, and Daisy's shyness and anxiety when she met her old lover. Care for each other without words, only actions convey some emotions. I think Nick was happy or sad when he saw the green light he had been looking forward to appear at his fingertips.
The subsequent story is like starting the wheel of fate, turning faster and faster, and finally Gatsby becomes the victim. But the saddest thing was Gatsby's funeral. Daisy didn't come, neither did the people who came to his party before, nor did the business partners, except an old father who was a little affectionate and greedy. There is another person, and that is Nick.
No one cares about all the money at funerals and banquets, which makes people feel trance and strange. When you are brilliant, there are a lot of people around you, and when you fall to the bottom, few people support you.
Sadness, jealousy and shirking responsibility of human nature sometimes inadvertently lead to the destruction of a life.