"The Great Gatsby", after reading this book on a winter afternoon, I felt a little depressed.

The masterpiece of Haruki Murakami’s idol Scott Fitzgerald, the most exquisite, beautiful and harmonious novel, a classic among classics.

Prosperity is a dream, Huangliang is a dream, you can see it as the struggle history of a poor boy or it can be seen as the disillusionment of the American dream. But its meaning is much more than that, it will not be so superficial. You can even see the coldness of human nature, the ruthlessness of destruction, and the insurmountability of classes. In the end, you feel a huge sense of emptiness and powerlessness about historical life and the destiny of mankind. Where will human beings be led by their own desires? The great abundance of material things cannot fill the huge emptiness in the heart.

Why didn’t Gatsby get Daisy?

First of all, why did Gatsby fall in love with Daisy?

Daisy was the first "well-known lady" that he fell in love with at that time when he was penniless. "Many men had loved Daisy, which excited him even more and made him love both of her. See each other with eyes." Despite his good background, he was also attracted by this vanity. Out of a man's instinctive vanity, he "made her believe that he was of equally noble origin, and that he was fully capable of taking care of her." In fact, he had no such ability - without a superior family background, he only needed an order from the indifferent government. Next, he will be transferred to any place in the world at any time. He originally had an attitude of taking advantage, and he did not despise himself, but the development of things was beyond his expectation. He found that he had "dedicated himself to an ideal." Daisy is the embodiment of his ideal. "He felt that he had promised her, and that was it." So he said that falling in love with Debbie was out of a promise to himself.

Moreover, when he was with Daisy, he experienced and saw another kind of life. The shock of wealth to him was huge. "Gatsby deeply understood how wealth can keep youth and mystery forever, how a suit of fine clothes can keep people fresh and beautiful, and how Daisy is as kind and dazzling as silver. On top of the fierce struggle for survival of the poor, An But live proudly.” Although she is just a beautiful stupid fool.

Gatsby couldn’t get Daisy because the gap between his background and class was too big. One is a poor boy from Chicago, that is, the Midwest. "The Midwest is no longer the warm center of the world. It seems to have become the ruined edge of the universe." The other is a young lady from a wealthy family in the East. Their combination is ironic in itself. mean. It was precisely because of the baptism of time that Daisy finally knew that what she needed was real things "love and money." She may be superficial, but she is always realistic. This is the upbringing brought by her class of origin and cannot be changed.

As the poem says, the frost season is still lovely for the rich, chewing betel nuts in their mouths, embracing beautiful women in their arms, enjoying all kinds of happiness, but for us poor, rags cover our exposed chests , my knees were trembling, and my heart was filled with despair.

The whole world is as different as a cloud of mud, heaven and earth.

Why didn’t Gatsby get Daisy?

Second. The incident of killing someone made Daisy finally choose to run away. As a wealthy person, what she has to consider is how to maximize her own interests. It was indeed better and better in the east - but even then it felt "twisted". After Gatsby's death, the East became more like a ghost and changed beyond recognition. The guests who once flocked to the funeral have long since avoided it, let alone attend the funeral. Even his partner said, "We should all learn to maintain friendship with our friends while they are alive, rather than waiting until they are dead."

What is even more sad is that when the author met Tom (Daisy's husband), the other party actually felt that what he did was "completely reasonable" in his own opinion. "It was all so careless and chaotic. These two careless people - Tom and Daisy - they messed up things, ruined people, and then retreated into their money, into indifference or insensitivity. Anything that can keep them together and let others clean up their mess..."

This reminds me of what a book said about the maintenance of relationships between couples. In addition to the maintenance of sex, the most fundamental thing comes from the affinity in human instinct. This affinity allows men and women to get rid of the temporary temptation of sex and stay attached to each other. What we cannot deny here is the bonding role of money in the relationship between two people.

In order to attract Daisy's attention, Gatsby played and sang every night, held big banquets, and finally waited for the lover of his dreams. After the initial embarrassment and ecstasy, he became exhausted mentally and physically because this matter had been lingering in his mind for too long. "He dreamed of it, gritted his teeth and waited hard. It can be said that the emotion was so intense that it was unbelievable." Now, due to the reaction force, he was exhausted like an alarm clock that had been wound too tightly.

Daisy is not as he dreamed, but this is not Daisy's fault, but because his fantasy vitality is too strong. This fantasy had transcended her, beyond everything. He threw himself into this dream with creative passion, constantly adding color to it, embellishing it with every gorgeous feather that came to him. "No matter how blazing the flame, no matter how full of vitality, it can't compare with the emotions accumulated in a man's lonely heart."

Gatsby is the ideal martyr.

His parents were mediocre farmers. There was never any real acknowledgment in his mind that they were his parents. He changed his name, he was born from his own Platonic fantasy, and he remained true to this ideal image. He has a conceited heart that is always restless. He convinced himself that reality was unreal.

It can be sad when you see through a new pair of eyes the things you have struggled to adapt to. It can be said that Gatsby is a typical example of the nouveau riche. The mentality of the nouveau riche is to show off their wealth, but inside they feel inferior and empty. It was all this that disgusted Daisy. She "hated its vibrant vitality stirring under its traditional and elegant appearance, and its reckless way of leading local residents to find shortcuts in life." This passage at least shows that she is wary of his self-made fortune, or rather a class's fear of uprisings from the lower class.

When you feel like criticizing others, remember that not everyone in the world has the same advantages that you do.

This book was written between the two world wars of the last century. The 1920s was an era of unprecedented economic prosperity and material abundance in the United States. Everyone was crazy about wealth. Just like the current situation in some countries.

That era was the last Jazz Age. The new rich began to appear on the stage of history. Their methods may be despised, but their wealth was envied by everyone. But this does not mean that people will accept them psychologically. In the eyes of the upper class, they may be nothing more than clowns. It is only because of wealth and status that we associate with them. When the wealth is scattered, people are scattered, and when the music is gone, people are scattered.

The world is in a hot and cold state, as it has always been in the past and present.