Book Report
The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby was written in 1924 by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald; the copy
I read was a Mass Market paperback print, published in Nanjing in 2013.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American novel and short story writer, is also one of the most outstanding writers in the United States in the twentieth century. He was born on September 24, 16 and died on December 21, 1940. Fitzgerald's middle name comes from a distant cousin Francis (Francis Scott Key), he was a famous lawyer. Fitzgerald's sister Louise (died shortly after birth) was also named according to his name.
Fitzgerald was not only to write novels, but also write short stories that have the writer's frequency characteristics. Fitzgerald wrote a total of 4 novels, 150 short stories in his life. His novel vividly reflected the \"American dream\" dashed in the 1920s and showed the spirit of \"wasteland era\" in American upper society during the Great Depression.
The book is the epitome of classical representative of American society named The Great Gatsby. Also, The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's the most famous novels, and it has established his status in the history of the American modern literature and become one of the representative writers of the \"Jazz Age\" and the spokesman of the \"Lost Generation\".
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When I started reading this book, I wanted to know what the story is. After reading, I knew that the story happened in the upper class in modern American society. The main character, Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner who had graduated from Yale, moved to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rented a house in the West Egg district of Long Island. Nick's next-door neighbor in West Egg was a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who fell in love with his cousin Daisy before the war. At that time, he was poor. However, Daisy married Tom Buchanan, a rich but boring man of good social position. But Gatsby was still in love with her. So in order to attract her attention and win her back, Gatsby often threw extravagant parties every Saturday night. Gatsby's luxurious lifestyle and wild parties were simply an attempt to impress Daisy. He now wanted Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablished their connection. They began an affair. Gradually, Gatsby found that Daisy was not the original Daisy, she was no longer a pure girl that Gatsby imagined, but a foolish, selfish, vulgar, hypocritical and beautiful body. Gatsby's beautiful dreams finally were broken, but he was still making the final struggle, still had a fantasy to Daisy so that he suffered a lot in the end.
Fitzgerald used the first person successfully to write this book and also used Nick as a narrator to recall the story. He was not only an authority, but also a spectator. As the authority, he was a neighbor of Gatsby, a distant cousin of Daisy and the old acquaintance of Tom. He also helped Gatsby and Daisy reunite, witnessed the conflict between Tom and Gatsby and dealt with Gatsby's funeral. As a spectator, he from did not know Gatsby to become his mourner. It was just a day
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Nick finally saw through the people that he contacted with, realized the \"golden age\" of the American society in which they lived.
As far as I'm concerned, I think Gatsby was a great man because he loved Daisy all the time. His heart was pure. Although he struggled for years, entered the upper society circles, he never swayed by money, power, and honor. Also, his construction of career was so as to be more close to Daisy. Unfortunately, his life ended in tragedy, including his dream of love.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the fantastic future that year by year recedes before us. It escaped us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… and one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.（677 words）
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