Gatsby is dead. In the early morning after his death, before the incident was investigated by the police, most reports characterized the death suspect Wilson as "insane" and "crazy". In this way, the truth was buried in a story woven by the public that "the madman avenged his wife who died in a car accident and shot the murderer".

In fact, the story behind this murder case is far more than that presented in the newspaper.

Wilson, who shot Gatsby and then committed suicide, was the husband of Myrtle who was killed by Gatsby's car. Myrtle is Tom's mistress, and Tom is Gatsby's beloved Daisy's husband.

Dramatically, it was Daisy who killed Myrtle with a car that day, but Tom misled Wilson into thinking that Gatsby was the culprit. More ironically, after the car accident, Daisy never appeared, as if her existence was like a dream. With Gatsby's death, this dream was shattered.

What kind of person is Gatsby? It took him three years to buy a luxury villa. In the next two years, the villa will hold a party every weekend. In his garden, men and women wander back and forth between laughter, champagne and starlight like moths. But in fact, Gatsby just expected Daisy, a married woman, to come to his party in the house across the bay.

In the past five years, Gatsby has stood in front of this villa many times, looking at Daisy's house across the sea and the green light that never goes out at the end of the pier. He waited and guarded in the dark again and again, and he even hoped to meet Daisy in his neighbor's garden.

In the process of waiting to meet, he shivered like a very innocent little boy, at a loss, and couldn't sleep well all night. He specially asked someone to mow the grass and put the flowers in the vase in advance. In order to hide his nervousness, he began to read a book to keep calm, but his head looked out of control from time to time. When Daisy really came, he stood stiffly, looking puzzled and sad, but still pretending to be lazy.

When Gatsby finally invited Daisy to his home, he went from embarrassment to ecstasy and even went into a state of complete excitement. He showed Daisy his oversized wardrobe and gorgeous and expensive shirts of different colors and textures. Gatsby is like a dream, enjoying rare emotions with a little fear and confusion.

His love for Daisy, after five years of precipitation, has become an ideal and a fantasy, and Gatsby will not allow this dream to be flawed and incomplete. He told Daisy to run over and tell her husband Tom that she had never loved him. Gatsby firmly believed that Daisy married Tom because she was poor, so he was eager to relive the dream of five years ago and arrange everything exactly as before.

Gatsby's real name is James Gates. When he was seventeen, he changed his name to Jay Gatsby. In English, this name is actually a variant of Jesus, the son of God. For Gatsby, Daisy is the embodiment of beauty, and all unreasonable ideals cherished in his heart are unified with this embodiment and become flesh and blood.

However, Daisy couldn't support Gatsby's dream at all. When she was young, she was addicted to social activities and met many men every day. When a person with enough status and value appeared, Daisy got married with honor. Daisy likes pleasure and attaches great importance to class, status and wealth. As Gatsby himself said, "Daisy's voice is full of money".

So, when Tom mercilessly said Gatsby was a bootlegger and Gatsby admitted that he even confessed to being a retired officer in Oxford, Daisy was dumbfounded. As a result, Daisy, who wanted to drive to calm down on her way back, killed Merter in a panic.

Is Gatsby really the spokesman of the traditional American dream? Great, a typical example of getting rich step by step by your own efforts? No, in the prosperous "Jazz Age" in the 1920s, Gatsby, in order to gain wealth, did not hesitate to collude with Wolf Sam, a member of the underworld, and became one of the "nouveau riche" within three years by illegally selling illicit liquor. From this point of view, Gatsby is not a good character.

However, after Gatsby's death, his father came to the funeral and brought an old book he read as a child, Cowboy Cassidy. The "schedule of work and rest" on the blank page is written correctly, including getting up at 6 o'clock, doing dumbbell exercises from 6 to 6: 30, and practicing speaking and manners from 5 to 6: 00. It can be seen that Gatsby was strict with his own people since childhood.

But as an adult, Gatsby changed completely and began to be cunning and unscrupulous.

He held a series of banquets and attracted many celebrities, but most people at the banquets didn't know him at all, and even their words were contemptuous. A nobleman like Tom who only knows luxury and pleasure is also full of contempt for Gatsby. He even said, "Can you make friends just by using your home as a pigsty?"

At the funeral after his death, only his neighbors, father and several servants came, and there was an unknown person who attended a banquet and praised Gatsby's library. Daisy looks like she just disappeared.

Finally, Gatsby's death is not only because of love, but also like a kind of self-crushing of dreams and disappointment of the whole great era. Perhaps, when he hugs the green light across the bay in a strange way every night, his trembling arm has revealed his inner desperate gesture.

The picture comes from the internet.