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Book Report of Great GatsbyI initially read The Great Gatsby when I was a sophomore, with some language basis to handle shallow aspects of literature like The Great Gatsby, though far from attaining a profound understanding. The assignment of reading The Great Gatsby was compulsory at that time, since our reading achievement would be finally checked by paper exam and book report. Therefore, it seemed tough for us to develop a sense of affection towards The Great Gatsby. Nevertheless, the novel was striking and unusual that I kept on reading until finishing all chapters. And in this semester, I picked up this book again (actually read on computer screen in electronic version), exploring further on The Great Gatsby under lecture’s guidance, with more passion and patience.Norwegian Wood and the Great GatsbyThe novel has been well known for more than half a century, and adapted to be movies for several times since its publication by various directors. Why does the story attract so many readers of different cultural identities and maintain its charm for such a long period till today? Definitely, there are various answers to this problem, and it depends on readers’perspectives and views. However, the popularity and huge success of The Great Gatsby reminds me of another famous writer Haruki Murakami from Japan and his work Norwegian Wood. It is not only because Haruki Murakami translated The Great Gatsby into his mother tongue, wrote long paragraph of introductions to strongly recommend the book to readers and spoke highly of it on public occasions for times, but also in that his literary work Norwegian Wood has a lot in common with The Great Gatsby.Though created in absolutely different times, The Great Gatsby and Norwegian Wood demonstrate some hints for readers to trace the similarity between them. The Great Gatsby was centered by F.S. Fitzgerald in 1925, depicting how a young man gains his wealth and becomes a millionaire through illegal business, smuggling and manufacturing alcohol after the authority has imposed a ban on alcohol. After Gatsby establishes his commercial empire, he turns to his ultimate goal in his life, regaining the love from his former girl friend Daisy.Like his peers at that time in the United States, Gatsby plunges into crazy of earning money and begins with little or totally no money. With his constant efforts and thirst of wealth, he finally succeeds. Nevertheless, the loneliness, dearth and poor spiritual world stimulate his emotion for true love and Daisy. Unfortunately, Gatsby fails to expect that Daisy has already been transformed into a sophisticated woman and far away from trueness by the real world where wealth has overwhelmingly served as the only judgment of success. The story is ended with a tragedy that Gatsby is shot dead by Wilson.Norwegian Wood was written by Haruki Murakami in 1987, telling a love story between a young man Watanabe and two women, Naoko and Midori.Watanabe falls in love with his senior high school mates Naoko after an accidental reunion. Not long after that, Watanabe meets his college classmates Midori and is attracted by his personality characterized by activeness and passion. Then they fall in love with each other. During this period, Naoko develops insanity and is sent to the sanitarium. Then, tragically, Naoko’s condition constantly deteriorates and finally commits suicide.Both stories are ended with tragic result, and The Great Gatsby depicts the twisted relations between one woman and two men, while Norwegian Wood tells the story between one man and two women. Meanwhile, one of heroes in each story loses his or her life. In the name of love, the heroes in both stories all commit absurd mistakes and extremely improper behaviors, some being quite funny and ridiculous. Both literary works make noble, funny, tragic description of heroes. Gatsby pursuits his true love Daisy, and makes best efforts as he could regardless of morality and manner to regain Daisy, ending with tragedy. Watanabe also have true love for Naoko and Midori, and he presents his love in a weird and absurd way, triggering tragedy in the end. Personally, The Great Gatsby may partially prototype Norwegian Wood.AmbitionTuring back to The Great Gatsby itself, I think it shares a valuable lesson to most of us that a person can be ambitious but should never demand too much. After Gatsby establishes his business empire and gathers unrivalled wealth in many other people’s eyes, he takes it for granted that he can regain the love of Daisy. However, all his behaviors and escalating passions towards Daisy work out in an opposite way. His wants Daisy to go back to him immediately, it being an unrealistic demand since Daisy has been married for quite a long time and turned into an even sophisticated woman. When Gatsby sticks to his obsession and commits irrational acts towards Daisy, he ultimately destroys his own life.Gatsby reflects me on some historic figures like Adolf Hitler, supreme leader of Nazi German, and Joseph Stalin, communist chief of former Soviet Union. Like Gatsby, both of them were born in poor family with extremely humble origin and grim childhood. After attaining the power in the election of congress, Adolf Hitler quickly turned the nation into a tyranny and dictatorship. However, obtaining the absolute power of a nation was far from his ambition, and he then turned his country into a brutal war machine, spreading the warfare to almost every corner of Europe. Ultimately, the invasion could hardly be furthered with resistance of righteous forces, and Hitler could never avoid the destiny of failure and extermination. In the communist super power, former Soviet Union, Stalin also committed similar errors. He eradicated almost all his dissidents inside and outside the party through assassination and political persecution, in order to consolidate his own position. Most of those unfortunate events authorized by Joseph Stalin have been verified by released credential documents after the failure of the Red Empire, and Stalin has already beenmarked as a tyrannical dictator with little people regarding his achievements. Their ambition greatly changed the appearance and status of their countries. However, it is also their ambitions that exterminate themselves.Everyone can be ambitious in his way of pursuing goals in his life, and it is one of the essential internal continuity to drive a person to move forward. Nevertheless, once the ambition expands too much, it will be an unrivalled hazard to both the bearer of the ambition and the community he lives.In ConclusionThe success and charm of The Great Gatsby not only lies in its delicate language and classic story, but also attributes to the ideas and introspection of humanity conveyed by it.。
Book Report on The Great Gatsby
A Shattered Dream of Vanity——Book report on The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby is a masterpiece written by a famous American writer F.Scott Fitzgerald. The book is published and reprinted in "Penguin Classics" 2000 in England.It is a story of the main protagonist, Gatsby, set in the early summer of 1922 in West Egg, Long Island, and told from the perspective of Nick Carraway, Gatsby's friend. After reading the book, I think The Great Gatsby is about Gatsby's shattered dream, a shattered dream of vanity.Gatsby buys a big mansion in the West Egg, across the bay from Daisy's house. He holds luxurious party every week, in order to draw the attention from Daisy, who he had loved since 5 years ago when he was a poor lieutenant. He was asked to leave for World War І, but Daisy didn't wait for him and married to Tom Buchanan, a rich aristocrat. Tom has a mistress outside, George Wilson's wife, Myrtle. Nick is Daisy's cousin and Tom's fellow student in Y ale. Moreover, he is coincidently a neighbor of Gatsby and the one who arranges the date between Gatsby and Daisy, whose love seems to be back again. However, their affair is revealed soon. Daisy chooses to go back to Tom, and Gatsby's dream is over. On the way home, Daisy kills Myrtle in a car accident. Gatsby takes the blame for Daisy and is killed by Myrtle's husband, George Wilson, who is incited by Tom. Up to now, we can see Gatsby's dream is disintegrated. He becomes the victim of others' greed, selfishness, and coldness.As a masterpiece of American "Lost Generation" literature, The Great Gatsby is far not only a story of love. In fact, it encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope about the grand background of times. It concerns about the American era of unprecedented prosperity, the comparison between the newly rich and the old aristocracy, the moral decline of the upper class and so on.Here I want to focus on the profound meaning of this book on the perspective of Gatsby's shattered dream.Five years ago, Gatsby was a poor lieutenant, who fell in love with the aristocratic girl, Daisy. He lied to her that he himself was from a wealthy family so that she would consider him as worthy of her. After the war, Gatsby tries to gain fortune, even by smuggling, to win her back. For Gatsby, Daisy is his dream: beautiful, charming,graceful, that kind of girl of sophistication, wealth, and aristocracy which he values and pursues. Nevertheless, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby's ideals. She is beautiful and charming, but also material, fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic. Nick characterizes her as a careless person who smashes things up and then retreats behind her money. Later even Gatsby himself realizes her voice is "full of money", though he never gives up his dream of Daisy from beginning to end.The Great Gatsby is a novel about American dream: discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. But this dream is corrupted in the 1920s, an era which portrayed by Fitzgerald, "decayed social and moral values, cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure". Tom and Daisy, and those guests attending Gatsby's parties, the indifferent, ruthlessness aristocrats all stand for the eroded social aspects.On the opposite side, Gatsby processes moral qualities in the novel. He is innocent, sincere, loyal, and good-hearted. He claims he is the driver to take the blame for Daisy, remains outside Daisy's window until 4 a.m. simply to make sure that Tom does not hurt her. He is lovesick, though worthless, and holds a hopeful dream and persists in his dream of true love. Many people may not find out that, Gatsby's dream is truly also a dream of vanity. America of early 20th century was pursuing wealth, pleasure, but resulted in the decline of morality, stuffy, empty, and hypocrisy. Comparatively, Gatsby, from his early youth, despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication. Daisy reflects his worship of wealth and aristocracy. But his dream of vanity is finally ruined, revealing the corruption that wealth causes and the unworthiness of the goal, the goal driven from his value. After Gatsby died, rather than attend the funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no forwarding address. Gatsby's dream of vanity finally crumbles, and having witnessed the whole story, Nick decides to return to his hometown, where American values have not decayed.After reading The Great Gatsby, reading his shattered dream of love, of vanity, I do not only have known the conception of the American society in early 20th century, but also know that the value of a time, a nation, and an individual is so significant. There is a very conspicuous symbol in the novel, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes. It is a warning that our development and morality will always be stared upon and judged by God. Remember it.。
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BOOK REPORT OF<THE GREAT GA TABY>5034029007 杨玲I have already read this novel for three times ,each time I found some more ideas . But in fact until now,I have not understood the author ’s meaning totally . This book ’s language is not difficult ,but what the author really intent to tell us is difficult to comprehend.Now ,I only write something about what I have learned from the novel.Mainly it is the story of Jay Gatsby, told by Gatsby's friend and neighbor, Nick Carraway, a bonds salesman in New York. Three other important characters are Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson. Nick is distantly related to Daisy, whose wealthy husband, Tom, went to college with Nick. Myrtle is married to a mechanic but is sleeping with Tom.After searching for the background of this novel ,I know it is about many things that have to do with American life in the "Roaring Twenties," things such as the abuse of alcohol and the pursuit of other pleasures, including that elusive entity, the "American dream." Much has been made of Fitzerald's relation to his characters. Many of the characters in his novels are based on people from his life. Within the characters of Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby we can see the dueling parts of Fitzgerald's own personality. Gatsby and Fitzgerald are alike by both being self-made men who have achieved financial success. Similarly, they both achieved their financial success for the love of a woman. Gatsby felt that he needed wealth to win the hand of Daisy, and Fitzgerald felt the same about Zelda. The love of a woman was the motivating factor behind virtually all of Gatsby's actions, and many of the young Fitzgerald's. Fitzgerald would spend the majority of his career struggling to earn as much money as possible to maintain the privelaged lifestyle that Zelda desired.From this novel ,we can know that in the Gatsby ’s period ,is filled with extravagancy, vacuity. money can buy them love, friends, and happiness. Gatsby tries to buy Daisy's love throughout the book. In the first part of the book Gatsby holds a number of large parties, hoping Daisy will come to one of them so he can pursue her. Unsuccessful, he manipulates Nick into arranging a meeting between himself and Daisy. Nick has Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby to tea. Subsequently, Gatsby invites them to go for a ride with him. Thereafter, Gatsby tries to drive a wedge between Daisy and Tom, but though she claims to love him, her love is as superficial as the image Gatsby has created with his money. Money itself is neither moral nor immoral, but the use Gatsby puts money to involves moral issues about marriage that go far beyond the mere fact that he is rich and uses his money to gain want he wants.Gatsby also tries unsuccessfully to win friends through his parties. Gatsby is lonely and he tries to fill his loneliness with his parties. In effect, he tries to buy friends with his lavish entertaining. And, although his parties are successful in the number of guests (invited and uninvited) and in their apparent enjoyment of the parties, Gatsby makes no significant friends through these entertainments. Instead, people speculate as to how Gatsby got his money and as to whether or not he is a killer. Indeed, he has got his money illegally--through bootlegging and other immoral ways. And the novel suggests that partly because of this fact Gatsby comes to grief. Though Nick, referring to Daisy, Tom and their friends, tells Gatsby, "'They're a rotten crowd,' . . . . 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together'" (154), he also disapproves of Gatsby and has done so "from beginning to end" (154).Both Tom and Gatsby believe that ,money can buy happiness.But neither of these two persons gain any happiness from money .His affair with Myrtle suggests he is trying to fill theemptiness in his life with something that will satisfy him spiritually, as well as physically. It does not. And after Myrtle is accidentally killed by Daisy in a car accident, Tom immorally initiates a chain of events that end in Gatsby's murder. None of these characters is happy because of his or her wealth, even though those who survive retain their positions in society.In my opinion,Love, friends, happiness--none of these can be bought permanently, but money can maintain one's place in a corrupt society.Next ,I want to mention is my impression of the three main heroes.Gatsby, on the other hand, is larger than life, a hopeless and hopeful "great romantic," who represents the worldly ambitions in all of us. He believes in seizing the "green light" and the dreams of youth, no matter what the cost. Then there is Nick, who insightfully describes both the careless cruelty of the Buchanans and the high-reaching dreams of Gatsby. He chronicles the events in an honest, sometimes breathless fashion, then shovels them all into a pile - for the reader to sort out.You can not judge one character in this novel by good or bad man ,The whole story is happened in that certain period of time .Is Gatsby really a great man ? I don’t think so .He is only a tragic person ,who can only be controlled by the hand of life .。
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ThebookreportofT...第一篇：The book report of The Great Gatsbay1《了不起的盖茨比》英文读书报告The book report of The Great GatsbayBy F.Scott.FizgeraldThe Great Gatsbay is written by American author F.Scott.Fizgerald, who is considered a member of the “lost generation” of the Twenties.It was first published on 1925.The following is the main plot of the novel.A young man named Nick Caraway, who came to New York City in string of 1922.He became involved in the life of his neighbour at Long Island, jay Gatsbay revealed to Nick, that he fell in love with his cousin Daisy before the war.At that time, he is poor.However, Daisy married Tom Buchanan, a rich but boring man of good social position.But Gatsby was still in love with her.In Gatsby's opinion, daisy was a beautiful and charming that he had never seen.But I think she was also fickle, shallow, hypocritical.She was love with money, easy, and material luxury because she seemed to love Gatsby, but just appearance.Although I know the real Daisy, Gatsby did not know her clearly.This is the main reason why Gatsby could not get what he wanted.Becoming wealthy is the most important for rge fortune was from distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities.After getting money, Gatsby got luxurious possessions.“And a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden, it was Gatsby mansion.” Besides,Gatsby went to Oxford University to get further study in order to make him more elegant and noble.He changed since his New Haven years.Now he was a study straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.Two shiningarrogant eyes has established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always learning aggressively forward.Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body-he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muck shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.It was a body capable of enormous beverage-“ a cruel body” in Nick's eyes.Gatsby held sumptuous parties every weekend at his mansion.The party is almost unbelievably luxurious.He made friends who have outstanding fame and high position.Due to natural instincts-vanity, Daisy began to sob helplessly;;I did love him true, but I loved you too." when Gatsby tried to convince her to leave Tom.Gatsby lost Daisy because he had no money, but he still loved her.It was the blinding love that killed him.Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, hit and killed T om's mistress, Myrtle Wilson, Gather knew the truth, but he kept silent to protect her.Afterwards, Tom told Myrtle's husband that it was Gatsby killed his wife.Then Wilson murdered Gatsby and committed suicide.After Gatsby''s dying, almost no people including those who usually attended his parties came to his funeral.Nick was left to arrange Gatsby's funeral, attended only Gatsby's father and the former guests.The woman who ever allowed Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle rather than attend his funeral moved away with her husband finally, leaving no contact address.Gatsby is the typical American youth in the twenties.He regarded Daisy as the symbol of the youth, money and status deeply.He thought innocently: he can receive the last love, his dream after having money.It was a pity.He had misunderstood the girl he loved and the boring society on the surface.So he would never made his dream come true.But, he tried his best.第二篇：了不起的盖茨比读书报告“The American Dream”reflected in The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F.Scott Fitzgerald.The first time I finished reading it, I treated it as a love tragic story.Gatsby’s love for Daisy was so deep that he loved her for so many years and finally died because of her.However, it is a pity that Daisy was a fickle, shallow girl who only loved money, ease and material luxuty.I feel sorry for Gatsby’s love for a unworthy girl.In fact, the novel involves a much larger and less romantic scope.I came to realize it after knowing more about F.Scott Fitzgerald’s works and the background of the story.The Great Gatsby actually symbolized the disillusion of the American Dream.It shows a vivid picture of the 1920’s with its surface prosperity a nd underlying sadness.The 1920’s is a decade when Americans worship money and ease of life instead of the original American Dream that dreaming of a better, richer and happier life for all citizens of every rank.The tragedy of Gatsby is an example of the failure of the American Dream.It can be analyzed from people’s pursuit of money, status and love.Money was of great importance during that period of time.It can be found from every aspect of people’s life.Firstly, money was a necessity for love and marriage.Gatsby was penniless when Daisy fell in love with him.They could not get married without money.Thus, Gatsby left to make money for his love.However, Daisy didn’t wait for him but married Tom, an arrogant, hypocritical man who had no moral qualms but money.From it we can see that Daisy chose money, not love.Secondly, people can do anything for money.For example, in order to make money, Gatsby chose to smuggle alcohol and do other criminal activities.These activities were of high risks, but Gatsby was willing to do them for money.Thirdly,money was more important than family kinship.At the funeral of Gatsby, his father didn’t show much sorrow for his son’s death, but were more proud of his son’s wealth.In his eye’s, money was more important than his son.Finally, money could make a normal person a celebrity.At the beginning of the novel, the author spent a lot of ink to describe the gorgeous mansion Gatsby lived, the luxurious car he owned, and the grand parties he held.These things made Gatsby popular in the town and these things all came from money.From above it can be concluded that money was the very pursuit of people in that period of time.Status was also a very important thing people try to pursue.Firstly, it can be reflected from Gatsby’s love for Daisy.Why did Gatsby loved Daisy but not other girls? This was because to Gatsby, Daisy represented the paragon of perfection—she has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota.All her characters were endowed by her status.Secondly, in the novel, the town was divided into East Egg and West Egg.People like Daisy and Tom lived on the East Egg presented American aristocracy(families with old wealth), and people like Gatsby lived in the West Egg presented newly rich industrialists and speculators.Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste.Gatsby, for example, lives in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce, and does not pick up on subtle social signals, such as the insincerity of the Sloanes’ invitation to lunch.In contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by the Buchanans’ tasteful home and the flowing white dresses of Daisy and Jordan Baker.Thus, it can be concluded that the newly rich admired thearistocracy’s status.Gatsby’s pursuit for Daisy also reflected the American Dream.Daisy was beautiful, charmingand grace, but she was also shallow, bored and sardonic.In reality, therefore, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby’s ideals.Daisy proves her real nature when she chooses Tom over Gatsby in Chapter VII, then allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson even though she herself was driving the car.Finally, rather than attend Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no forwarding address.With the pursuits corrupted, Gatsby's American dream is inevitably doomed.Gatsby died in line with the disillusionment of the American Dream.Furthermore,Gatsby is merely a typical representative of the thousands of Americans in 1920s.Through the archetypal story of Gatsby, Fitzgerald tells us that the distorted and perverted American dream in 1920s is doomed a disillusionment. 第三篇：了不起的盖茨比读书报告2104070593 2010级王丹Book ReportThis semester, I read a book which is named The Great Gatsby.The Great Gatsby was published in 1922 by F.Scott Fitzgerald.At first glance, the novel appears to be a simple love story, but further examination reveals Fitzgerald's masterful scrutiny of American society during the 1920s and the corruption of the American dream.The author is F.Scott Fitzgerald.Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star-Spangled Banner.Fitzgerald was raised in St.Paul, Minnesota.Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911.Despite being a mediocre student there, he managed to enroll atPrinceton in 1913.Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead enlisting in the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end.Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” Writt en in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation.Prohibition, the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to theConstitution(1919), made millionaires out of bootleggers, and an underground culture of revelry sprang up.He published the novel Tender is the Night, Paradise, The Last Giant and so on.Published over 160 short novels, for example Benjamin's Fantasy Trip, Ice Palace, Winter Dream, Sensible.Back to Babylon and so on.In the 81st Oscar Awards ceremony got three Oscar-winning films Benjamin Button is based on his short novel Benjamin's Fantasy Trip adaptation.The twentieth century, the United States academic community selected 100 the best novels in the river of English literature.The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night are the list.And The Great Gatsby is second.The Great Gatsby shows us a vivid picture of the 1920s with its superficial prosperity and underlying sadness.The failure of American dream and the crisis of value are well reflected in characters and the details of the novel.In The Great Gatsby,Fitzgerald skillfully employed the contrastive techniques in terms of scenes,characters as well as dream and reality.These techniques not only deepen the tragic theme, but also imparted the text a brand-new interpretation and profound artistic glamour.The novel is told us the story of Gatsby by Nick’ tone.Nick is tired ofhis hometow n’ life and came to New York.Rent a small house in the suburb of West Egg.He is Daisy's cousin.The Gatsby is his neighbor, living in luxurious Gatsby mansion.He and Daisy love each other when Gatsby was young.But because of his poor family they were broken up.Then he joined the First World War.While Daisy married torich Kids T om.Five years later, Daisy and her family move to the West from Chicago.Nick started have close contacts with them.Gatsby accumulated great wealth throughillegal means in the five years.Follow Daisy came to New York.Opposite Daisyhome he bought the villa-Gatsby Mansion.In order to attract married Daisy to meet.He held a large part at the villa every weekend.Vain hope to arouse the lost lovebetween them.An occasional opportunity let Gatsby knew that Nick is Daisy's cousin.Asked him arrange a meeting with Daisy.Then they often make date.He gradually found Daisy's vanity, vulgar and selfish.Gatsby's pink dream finally has been broken, but he still insisted it.Still retain any illusion about Daisy, and even lead to histragedies.One day Daisy was in a drunken driving Gatsby's car ran over and caused an accident that killed Tom's mistress.And plan a plot with Tom and cruel to put the blame on Gatsby.Resulting in the victim's husband suddenly burst into the house and shot Gatsby.The murderer eventually also killed himself.And Daisy and Tom were traveling to Europe.Only Gatsby's poor father and Nick attend at the funeral.The story ends up with the Gatsby become victim for selfish and cruel of Daisy.The story begins in 1920s –was named by “jazz” and “money” era.The novel use Nick’ tones tell thestory.Happened as if is Nick’ experience.It is use a unique literary vision and new performance style profoundly revealed the burst reason about American Dream at Jazz and Money Age.After war The US economic prosperity age, the life style trends to money worship are expressed most vividly.But it was under the cover of the selfishness and indifference of human nature.The reason why are Gatsby great because he was sincere and persistent waiting for and pursuing his love at heart.When the social is popular that people indulging pleasure and pride luxury.However, in material-driven environment, whether it is Gatsby, Daisy or Tom.They pursuit, devotion and transfer for love are close linked to money and status.The Great Gatsby is ranked second in the Modern Library’s list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.But everyone has the different criteria on good books.One point of good books is, I think, when you eat it the taste is what you need.The good books tell you clearly something that lurks in your brain dimly.So you will feel very good if you resonate with the character in books.Another point of good books is, after you have eaten it the taste is so good that you want to eat it again.The good book is amusing and thought inspiring.The Great Gatsby also has a lot of puns and symbolisms.Finally, I hope everyone can be himself.Don’t lose your spirit.As far as I amconcerned even though you love someone, you should not accommodate yourself to him or her too much.Just be yourself.Only if he or her love you sincerely can you have a happy life in the future.第四篇：了不起的盖茨比读书报告A Book Report of The Great GatsbyBy Li LiF.Scott Fitzgerald.The Great : Penguin Books Ltd, 2007187 Pages.Fiction.The Great Gatsby is told us a tragic story in which how Gatsby tries his best for his dreams of love and life but finally he also fails in face of the reality by Nick’s tone.Background InformationThe Great Gatsby is the most famous masterpiece of Fitzgerald’s.It’s also the master piece of American realism fiction in the early period of the 20th century.This work was written in 1925 by Fitzgerald.This period is called jazz age, it’s also the most exuberant period of the a uthor’s creativity.In this period, World War I has already ended up(1918)before Great Depression(1929)arrived.The traditional Puritan ethics crumbled and hedonism began to be popular.With Fitzgerald’s words, ‘this is a miracle of the era, an era of art, a miserly time, but also is a era full of taunt’.Fitzgerald called the age as the jazz age, so he is called ‘the poet laureate’ in this jazz age.As he himself also enjoyed this era warmly, he keenly felt this era for the romantic desire, the surface of the luxury of emptiness and behind is helpless, and in his works these emotions were reflect ed heartily.In his works, the delicate affection quarrel of the young people who are in and out of the golf course, country club and luxurious residence of the high society is an eternal theme, and the leading roles’ frustration and disappointment by money dispelling are everywhere.The Great Gatsby describes a story to represent the desire of the young and idealism.It involves the mercurial feelings including confusion and loss all the time.Fitzgerald thinks it’s the fate of the people’s fate in that era.Plot SummaryEvaluationThe Cause of Miriam’s Tragedy:1.Social cause2.The isolated living environment3.The influence of religion4.Paul and the interference of Mrs.Morel第五篇：了不起的盖茨比英文读书报告[小编推荐]Book Report of The Great GatsbyThe introduction about the author:Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald(September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940)was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself.He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.Fitzgerald is considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s.He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, and the most famous one is The Great Gatsby.Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925, and it has been republished in 1945 and 1953.There are two settings for the novel.The first setting is on Long Island's North Shore and the second major setting is in New York City.The book is set within the year 1922 from the spring to the autumn.Summary of this book: 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, a group who had made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who were prone to garish displays of wealth.Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg was a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lived in a gigantic Gothicmansion and threw extravagant parties every Saturday night.Nick was unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was educated at Yale and had social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class.Nick drove out to East Egg one eveningfor dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale.Daisy and Tom introduced Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom Nick began a romantic relationship.Nick also leart a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan told him that Tom had a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lived in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City.Not long after this revelation, Nick travelled to New York City with Tom and Myrtle.At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom kept for the affair, Myrtle began to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responded by breaking her nose.As the summer progressed, Nick eventually garnered an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties.He encountered Jordan Baker at the party, and they met Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who had a remarkable smile and called everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asked to speak to Jordan alone, and through Jordan, Nick later leart more about his mysterious neighbor.Gatsby told Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and was deeply in love with her.He spent many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion.Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties were simply an attempt to impress Daisy.Gatsby now wanted Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he was afraid that Daisy would refuse to see him if she knew that he still loved her.Nick invited Daisy to have tea at his house, withouttelling her that Gatsby would also be there.After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablished their connection.They begin an affair.After a short time, Tom grew increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby.At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stared at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realized Gatsby is in love with her.Though Tom involved in an extramarital affair, he was deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful tohim.He forced the group to drive into New York City, where he confronted Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel.Tom asserted that he and Daisy had a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announced to his wife that Gatsby was a criminal—his fortune came from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities.Daisy realized that her allegiance was to T om, and Tom contemptuously sent her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby could not hurt him.When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drove through the valley of ashes, however, they discovered that Gatsby’s car h ad struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover.They rushed back to Long Island, where Nick leart from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intended to take the blame.The next day, Tom told Myrtle’s husband, George, that Ga tsby was the driver of the car.George, who had leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have had been her lover, found Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead.He then fatally shot himself.Nick staged a small funeral for Gatsby, ended his relationship with Jordan, and moved back to the Midwest to escape the disgust he felt for the people surrounding Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among thewealthy on the East Coast.Nick reflected th at just as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism had disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth.Though Gatsby’s power to transform his dreams into reality made him “great,” Nick reflected that the era of dreaming—both Gatsby’s dream and the American dream—was over.。
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了不起的盖茨比英文阅读报告了不起的盖茨比英文读书报告Pursuit for DreamsThe Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan.This novel is narrated by Nick who returns to the Midwest before setting to the New York City. Daisy is Nick’s cousin once removed and Nick knows of her husband, Tom. With the development of the novel, Nick knows that his next-door neighbor is the wealthy Gatsby, who always hosting lavish parties of hundreds of people. Then Nick knows that Gatsby had fallen in love with Daisy long before. But Gatsby had no money to marriedDaisy, so Daisy married to the wealthy Tom. With few years of illegal traffic and smuggling, Gatsby accumulates a great amount of wealth. With the help of Nick, they meet and begin a love affair again. But then Tom finds that. After the combat between the two men, Daisy knocks down and kills Myrtle by accident when driving Gatsby’s car. At last, Daisy and Tom escape, left Gatsby be shot by Wilson.After read this novel, I think Gatsby is silly and unwisely. For his whole life after he falls in love with Daisy, an attractive and elegant but shallow and selfish young lady, he strives for years to become a millionaire. But Gatsby doesn’t realize the truth of his love and still sacrifices for his dream blindly, even by paying with his life. Gatsby takes the blame of killing Myrtle for Daisy, and is shot by Myrtle’s husband who is incited by Tom. Sadly, after his death, all Gatsby gains is Daisy’s indifference. I think no one is worth a great deal of sacrifice,especially for a frivolous and selfish person. While as the novel’s title The Great Gatsby says, I agree that Gatsby is truly great. In my opinion, Gatsby is pure, sincere, enthusiastic and persevering. Gatsby’s success in fortune is great; his strong will of love and achieving life goal is also great; he becomes the big name of the society and becomes the upper class’s deputy. Everyone is glad to come to his party; everyone admires his property; and everyone wants to be his friend, even Daisy has taken much notice of him and falls in love with him again. Gatsby is also great when he loses his life in order to protect Daisy from the accident.All in all, this story can serve as a reminder for us. To live a meaningful life, we should carefully choose some dreams to pursue. Everyone, if only work hard and never give up, we could achieve our dreams and could live a better life in the piece of the land. People should make their efforts, such as diligence, courage and determination to realize dreamsrather than depend on the help from others.篇二：了不起的盖茨比英文读书报告Book Report of The Great GatsbyThe introduction about the author:Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 –December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the Lost Generation of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, and the most famous one is The Great Gatsby.Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925, and it has been republished in 1945 and 1953. There are two settings for the novel. The firstsetting is on Long Island's North Shore and the second major setting is in New York City. The book is set within the year 1922 from the spring to the autumn.Summary of this book: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, a group who had made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who were prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg was a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lived in a gigantic Gothic mansion and threw extravagant parties every Saturday night.Nick was unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was educated at Yale and had social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class. Nick drove out to East Egg one eveningfor dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, T om, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduced Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom Nick began a romantic relationship. Nick also leart a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan told him that Tom had a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lived in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travelled to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom kept for the affair, Myrtle began to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responded by breaking her nose.As the summer progressed, Nick eventually garnered an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. He encountered Jordan Baker at the party, and they met Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who had a remarkable smile and called everyone “old sport.”Gatsby asked to speak toJordan alone, and through Jordan, Nick later leart more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby told Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and was deeply in love with her. He spent many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties were simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wanted Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he was afraid that Daisy would refuse to see him if she knew that he still loved her. Nick invited Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby would also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablished their connection. They begin an affair.After a short time, T om grew increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans’house, Gatsby stared at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realized Gatsby is in love with her.Though Tom involved in an extramarital affair, he was deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful tohim. He forced the group to drive into New York City, where he confronted Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. T om asserted that he and Daisy had a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announced to his wife that Gatsby was a criminal—his fortune came from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realized that her allegiance was to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sent her back to East Egg with Gatsby, (转载于: 写论文网:了不起的盖茨比英文阅读报告)attempting to prove that Gatsby could not hurt him.When Nick, Jordan, and T om drove through the valley of ashes, however, they discovered that Gatsby’s car had struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. They rushed back to Long Island, where Nick leart from Gatsby that Daisy wasdriving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intended to take the blame. The next day, T om told Myrtle’s husband, George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car. George, who had leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have had been her lover, found Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead. He then fatally shot himself. Nick staged a small funeral for Gatsby, ended his relationship with Jordan, and moved back to the Midwest to escape the disgust he felt for the people surrounding Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick reflected that just as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism had disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby’s power to transform his dreams into reality made him “great,”Nick reflected that the era of dreaming—both Gatsby’s dream andthe American dream—was over.篇三：The book report of The Great Gatsbay1《了不起的盖茨比》英文读书报告The book report of The Great GatsbayBy F. Scott. FizgeraldThe Great Gatsbay is written by American author F. Scott. Fizgerald, who is considered a member of the lost generation of the Twenties. It was first published on 1925. The following is the main plot of the novel.A young man named Nick Caraway, who came to New York City in string of 1922. He became involved in the life of his neighbour at Long Island, jay Gatsbay revealed to Nick, that he fell in love with his cousin Daisy before the war. At that time, he is poor. However, Daisy married Tom Buchanan, a rich but boring man of good social position. But Gatsby was still in love with her.In Gatsby's opinion, daisy was a beautiful and charming that he had neverseen. But I think she was also fickle, shallow, hypocritical. She was love with money, easy, and material luxury because she seemed to love Gatsby, but just appearance. Although I know the real Daisy, Gatsby did not know her clearly. This is the main reason why Gatsby could not get what he wanted.Becoming wealthy is the most important for him. Large fortune was from distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities. After getting money, Gatsby got luxurious possessions. And a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden, it was Gatsby mansion.Besides,Gatsby went to Oxford University to get further study in order to make him more elegant and noble. He changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a study straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining arrogant eyes has established dominance over his face and gave him theappearance of always learning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body- he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muck shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous beverage- a cruel body inNick's eyes.Gatsby held sumptuous parties every weekend at his mansion. The party is almost unbelievably luxurious. He made friends who have outstanding fame and high position.Due to natural instincts- vanity, Daisy began to sob helplessly;; I did love him true, but I loved you too. when Gatsby tried to convince her to leave Tom. Gatsby lost Daisy because he had no money, but he still loved her. It was the blinding love that killed him.Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, hit and killed T om's mistress, MyrtleWilson, Gather knew the truth, but he kept silent to protect her. Afterwards, Tom told Myrtle's husband that it was Gatsby killed his wife. Then Wilson murdered Gatsby and committed suicide.After Gatsby''s dying, almost no people including those who usually attended his parties came to his funeral. Nick was left to arrange Gatsby's funeral, attended only Gatsby's father and the former guests. The woman who ever allowed Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle rather than attend his funeral moved away with her husband finally, leaving no contact address.Gatsby is the typical American youth in the twenties. He regarded Daisy as the symbol of the youth, money and status deeply. He thought innocently: he can receive the last love, his dream after having money. It was a pity. He had misunderstood the girl he loved and the boring society on the surface. So he would never made his dream come true.But, he tried his best.。
Book Report of The Great Gatsby
Book Report of The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby was written on a love story between Gatsby and the upper-class young girl Daisy. During the war the poor young soldier, Gatsby fell in love with Daisy, but he did not have enough money to get married with her. When the war ended, Gatsby heard that Daisy had married to a rich guy, Tom. However, Daisy’s marriage was not that happy because Tom has betrayed their marriage, he had a mistress after their daughter was born. All these things inspired Gatsby’s desire to get married with Daisy. In order to regain Daisy's love, it took Gatsby just a few years to make a great deal of money through illegal smuggling business. Since then Gatsby bought an extraordinary luxurious villa, which located in the opposite of Daisy’s house. In order to draw Daisy’s attention, Gatsby held a party every weekend, As we could imagine, on which Gatsby spent much money. The story went as we thought. Through Daisy’s cousin, Nick, Gatsby and Daisy met again. But Daisy's husband Tom found the secret soon, the situation became severe. Nick did not regret his own behavior he had done before, instead, he hated Gatsby very much. And Daisy had to make the decision between Gatsby and Tom, but her attitude was so ambiguous. She refused to give up Tom, and at the same time, she did not refuse Gatsby. Finally, she drove away with Gatsby, hoping to escape from that difficult situation. But on the way back she cra shed Tom’s mistress, leading her death immediately. Gatsby decided to assume the responsibility to protect Daisy. But Daisy did not accept Gatsby after seeing his sacrifice. Even worse, she was determined to give up Gatsby, when Tom misled his mistress’s husband that it was Gatsby who killed his wife. At last Gatsby was shot by that frenzied guy. In Gatsby’s funeral, none of his friends who usually turned up in his villa appeared. During Gatsby's funeral, Tom and Daisy traveled abroad and didn't even send a bunch of flowers.The whole story was told by Nick. He helped Gatsby to meet Daisy with the intention to make his dream come true, at the same time he criticized this kind of action, and showed sympathy for Gatsby when he was murdered. He was the only one of his friends who attended Gatsby’s funeral. Nick witnessed the virtual mood of human society. At the end, Nick got back to his hometown with a tragedy mood. As far as I am concerned, the real killer who murdered Gatsby was the society, in which people could become rich overnight by immoral means, a young girlcould get married with a rich guy she did not love at all, a young man could find a job in which he did nothing but could also be paid. The sharp contrast between dream and reality not only explained Gatsby's failure at the end, but also explained the meaninglessness of that age. At the same time, it strengthened the novel's theme: the disillusion of the American dream and the corruption of people's morality.The Great Gatsby, written by F . Scott Fitzgerald, published by the aviation industryPress in January of 2011 for the third time.。
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Book report of the Great GatsbyF.SCOTT FITZGERALD. The Great Gatsby. Wordsworth Editions, 2001. XXII+122.The Great Gatsby became a massive hit in 1920s which had an influential impact both on American literature and spirit. This tragic love story was told in the tone of Nick Carraway, a poor clerk in a small investment company, who became the best friend of Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire, by chance. To his surprise, Nick found that every crazy and luxurious thing that done by Gatsby was to win back his beloved Daisy’s heart. However it was Daisy who had abandoned Gatsby five years ago because of his poverty and it was Daisy who led to Gatsby’s death finally. The whole story was an elegy of the corrupt and disordered “Jazz age”.The Great Gatsby was a mirror that showed us the society condition of the “Jazz age”—“it was the best of time, it was the worst of time”. With economy blooming and everything flourishing, American dream seemed at hand. However there was an extreme disparity between the rich and the poor. It was an age that entertainment and money came first and politics tended to be conservative. This book was a satire on the rich like Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanans who lived a life filled with spree, laugher and money while the poor like the Wilsons struggled for life in “valley of ashes”. It was this cold society that “preyed on Gatsby” and made “foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams”(P.4) and resulted in his death. This book was a great encyclopedia of that rotten age.Every people in the Great Gatsby had his unique character and personality.The leading man Gatsby had “an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness”. He was in the belief of eternal love, kindness and American dream. He was full of sense of responsibility, persistence and justice. “But of course I’ll say I was (the killer).”(P.92) Gatsby loved Daisy so much that he even was willing to be the scapegoat for Daisy. After all, Gatsby was not “a son of God”, so he could not beat the cruel society. Gatsby’s life was as brilliant as firework but as short as firework, too.As for Daisy, she was a total material girl. It was she who had abandoned Gatsby for his poverty five years ago, came back because of his wealth and left again when she knew the truth.Daisy and her husband Tom were on behalf of the upper class. “They’re a rotten crowd.”(P.98) “They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back to their money or their vast carelessness…let other people clean up the mess they had made.”(P.114) Daisy and Tom gone away and did not sent a message or a flower to Gatsby, who died on account of them.Mrs. Wilson was a woman that was eagered to escape from her poor life. At home, she was tiny while at apartment with Tom Buchanans, she was a queen.Last but not the least, Nick was an important people who told the whole story. He was decent, kind and loyal. He was moved by Gatsby and became his best friend even after Gatsby’s death.The Great Gatsby also had a high level of literary value. Needless to say its flowery words, the most obvious was the symbolism.This book was full of color. Daisy, a kind of flower, has white petal and golden stamen. Coincidently, the leading woman Daisy was always in white but crazy at golden. She had a gold pen, and even “her voice is full of money” (P.76). There was nothing but greedy under her innocent and dazzling appearance.However, green was the color for Gatsby. Green represents hope, vitality and nature. “Green light” showed three times in the whole book. It was the light burning at Daisy’s dock all night. Furthermore, it was the final dream and the motivation of Gatsby. At the end of the book, it wrote “Gatsby believed in green light, the orgiastic future that year by tear recedes before us. It eludes us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…”(P.115)Another symbol was a piece of billboard—the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg. They are eyes of God. God saw everything but kept silent when Tom Buchanans frame up Gatsby and let it go when Mr. Wilson shot innocent Gatsby. It is an innuendo to that disordered age.However, like every coin has two sides, the Great Gatsby also has its shortcoming. The plot was simple and plain which was just a story of love triangle. But it did not matter the Great Gatsby became a great literary works.To know an age, you must read the Great Gatsby; to feel inconstancy in human affection, you must read the Great Gatsby—an immortal work.。
THE BOOK REPORT OF THE GREAT GATSBY
THE BOOK REPORT OF THE GREAT GATSBYThe writer of The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald who was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in America on September 24 in 1896 in a merchant family. He is not only a long novelist, a short novelist but also is one of the greatest writers in America in the 20th century. His parents are Catholic, so he went to a Christianity church for studying as a child. He spent most his childhood there and from then on, he found his interests in literature.His magnum opuses are This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Dammed, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon, etc,during 1920 to 1941. During more than 20 years as a writer, he made a summit in his career when The Great Gatsby came out and it established his position in the history of literature. This novel describes the unsatisfied desire covered by wealth and success even to the trifling point and reflects the crush ofthe ’American Dreams’ and reveals the contradictions of the characters and the conflicts of hearts profoundly. F. Scott Fitzgerald was in special years when he was crazy about writing. The First World War has just ended and the economic crisis would not come. The hedonism is popular. On his own words, the time of wonders, arts, squander and full of sarcasm. Because he all day threw himself into the upper reaches of the debauchery life of the aristocracy, he perceived the eagerness of the romance, superficial luxury and back helpless, and expressed all of these vividly.Gatsby is a young millionaire now, but his reputation is bad in the past. He is a mysterious man because he has little contact with stratum where he stays and no one knows how he made such a big fortune. Some people say he made wine illegally during the prohibition, the others say he killed people or he was a spy of Germany during the war. Some even say he is nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II. However, no matter how many parties does he hold and no matter how many visitors attend his parties, he is always alone. All he has done is for Daisy. He wants to draw her attentions. What he wants just is “repeating the past”, staying with his darling, Daisy. But at the First World War, Daisy has married to a steady, respectable millionaire, Tom, and they have got a daughter, however, it can not stop Gatsby win over Daisy’s love. For Daisy, she thinks she is tied by her marriage and is unsatisfied with her marriage.The protagonist of this novel is Nick who is a man deal with stock everyday in Wall Street. He is Gatsby’s neighbor. Later, he realized the rich are very indifferent and Daisy and Tom are no exception. Tom has a lover, myrtle, who is wife of the owner of the gas station between Long Island and New York. One day, Tom quarreled with Gatsby for Daisy, and because Daisy is nervous and she wants to drive the car so that she can keep calm. Gatsby is around her when she has a traffic accident and kills her husband’s lover. To protect Daisy, Gatsby takes things by himself. Because the hate of Tom, he persuade his lover’s husband that Gatsby tempted his wife and killed her on purpose. Eventually, Myrtle’s husband shoots Gatsby. Almost no one attends Gatsby’s funeral, even Daisy. At last, Nick finds out Jordan a man who should have been presented in Gatsby’s funeral, just to know the identity of Gatsby is a fantasy. Then Nick leave for Midwest just leave Gatsby’s dream and sadness alone.Most people say Gatsby has got a dream, an American dream. I have a blurry concept about”American dream” until I see Gatsby’s father hold his son’s agenda when he was a child, I just realize that American dream is as long as you work hard you can live a better life. Gatsby who think himself is god’s son firmly believe he can do some extraordinary things. He knew his responsibility when he kissed Daisy for the first time. As long as you run fast, as long as you run further, you can get the wonderful life. And in this novel, the green light is bailment of thewonderful life. Gatsby is the most foolish man, also the bravest man. Just like a song goes “Love only one person, have only one emotion.” Gatsby makes his dream own enough money to support Daisy come true. He is certainly great.Gatsby, Nick, Daisy and Tom give me deep impress. Gatsby, the protagonist of this novel, has lofty ideals, willing to work hard, have patience and dare to love and hate who always thinks something too good, eventually, he died in his fantasy. However, I think he succeed because until he died, he does not realize Daisy’s betrayal. Daisy, a typical material girl, she gives up love for wealth. And she ends Gatsby’s tragic life for wealth and panic. Tom, a typical people with a flower heart, he is the director of Gatsby’s tragic life. Nick, is the witness and also the undertaker, undertakes the indifferent world.The writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the realistic Gatsby. He once met a girl and fell in love with her when he was down and out. From then on, he began work hard and he created a lot of great works. Then he found his darling and they get married which is different from Gatsby. The writer wrote some low level works just for supporting their life. They both suffered a lot from their life. Unfortunately as Gatsby, both of them died in a young age.In a word, The Great Gatsby is a love story with dry humor and is an epitome of that time in American. The writer’s epitaph written “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” People must have dreams which can encourage us to go ahead, but we can not live in the “wonderful dream”.。
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book report英语模板I recently finished reading a fascinating book, and I felt compelled to share my thoughts on it. The book, titled "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a classic piece of American literature that explores themes of wealth, love, and the pursuit of the American Dream. It tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a wealthy and mysterious man who throws lavish parties in hopes of winning back the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan.最近我读完了一本令人着迷的书，我感到有必要分享一下我的想法。
这本书的题目是《了不起的盖茨比》，作者是F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德，是一部探讨财富、爱情和追求美国梦主题的经典美国文学作品。
它讲述了杰·盖茨比这个富有而神秘的男人，他举办盛大的派对，希望能够重新赢回他心爱的女人黛西·布坎南的心。
One of the aspects of "The Great Gatsby" that I found most intriguing was its exploration of the idea of the American Dream. Gatsby is a character who embodies the belief that with enough wealth and determination, one can achieve anything they desire.However, as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Gatsby's pursuit of the American Dream ultimately leads to his downfall.《了不起的盖茨比》中让我最感兴趣的一个方面是它对美国梦这一概念的探讨。
Reading Report on The Great Gatsby
Reading Report on The Great GatsbyBefore I began reading the book, I guessed Mr. Gatsby was an extraodinary man with his history of struggling. But when I finished the novel, I realized that Gatsby was just an ordinary man with plenty of wealth and a dream which could never come true. It is a kind of tragic story, but what is even more cruel is that it reflects the true life.Gatsby is a legendary character. Before Gatsby confessed to Nick about his experience, he was a bit mysterious. We did not know why he was so rich but lived alone. His house was so grand with a lot of visitors at his parties. I think it might be a meassure to cover his loneliness. Then different speculations show up about where his wealth came from. Everyone does not like rumours, so does he. He does not want anyone else to judge his life, but there is nothing he can do to change most people’s opinions. Then we get to know that he hides a dream of love, which perhaps contained more ineffable emotions such as an obsession of his girl or to say a sense of achievement. He loves Daisy for five years and never gives up; however, Daisy has been married Tom, who is a selfish and complacent richman. Gatsby is willing to just watch and protect Daisy silently, even as a result, he becomes a scapegoat and is killed because of his dear girl.The roles in the novel are vivid and have their own characteristics. Tom is hot-tempered and contempts everything, who is just like a spoiled affluent second generation without good breeding. Daisy is beautiful and like a visional bubble which is hard to get, but she is so delicate to undertake responsibilities and very mammonish. Both of Jordan and Nick are bystanders witnessing the tragedy, but the difference is that Nick is much more human. They all live in a circle of white American coming from upper-middle class; however, Nick finally cannot stand the cold atomsphere and goes back to his hometown. He realizes the reality is too brutal, and the relationships between people are just founded on the basis of their own interest. And as for Mr. Gatsby, why does the writer entitle his book as The Great Gatsby?At the begining, Gatsby does not show up until Nick comes across him at his party,and I was looking forward to the leading character with great expectansy and curiosity. As the writer’s primal description, Gatsby overlooks the green light on the sea which represents his deep love. When he comes on the stage, he talks to his guests with politeness and good quality. He struggles with his destiny because of his poor background, and continuallly pursues his dream. He learns to set his plans in his childhood by himself. We can draw a conclusion that he is a resourceful, caotious and sensitive man, but maybe he is not lucky enough. In the end, he sacrifices his life for his dream. At first, it seems that Daisy still loves him, too, but even Gatsby himself has noticed that her voice is full of money. Despite the fact, he still cannot abandon his precious dream. It is hard to say whether he failes or not, but it is certain that he pays for the relentless woman too much, which I do not think it is worth.Let me go back to the start. In this book, the writer knows a lot of secrets from others, which he does not want to inquire about on purpose. He remembers his father’s words deeply, so he is a good listener. I think his father’s statement is reasonable. We easily judge others and make criticism, which may annoy other people. We have the right of free speech, but we also should be responsible for what we said. Perhaps Gatsby is a man with poor fate, and his story alerted lots of American at that moment. The book has a melancholy tone, but it does show us a real society. We all have dreams, and due to many kind of external cause, we may not sure whether our dreams could achieve. So enjoying the process of pursuing dreams is vital. We must have beliefs to force us to go ahead towards our dreams.。
The Book Report of Great Gatsby
Report of the Great GatsbyInformation of the author and the novelThe Great Gatsby is written by F.Scott Fitzgerald,who was born in 1896 and died in 1940.Fitzgerald is now regarded as the spokesman for the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s.His novel Earthly Paradise make he became famous.He published over 160 short novels,for example Benjanmin’s Fantasy Trip,Ice Palace,Winter Dream,Sensible,Back to Babylon and so on.The Great Gatsby first published on April 10,1925.The novel took place following the First World War.At that time,American society enjoyed having unprecedented levels of prosperity during the “roaring” 1920s as the economy soared.At the same time,the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the eighteenth Amendent made millionaires out of bootleggers.After its republishing in 1945 and 1953,it quickly found a wide readership and is now widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel,and also a literary classic.The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American Literature in countries throughout the world.And it ranks s econd in the Modern Library’s lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.SummaryThe whole novel is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections.Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives holds extravagant parties every Saturday night.Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg----he was educated at Yale and has socialconnections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the upper class. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage form Jordan.She tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes,a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City.And of course,she herself also has a husband.Then Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. And they had a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair.With the summer progresses, Nick eventually gets an invitation to one of Gatsby’s splendid parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who has an English accent and a remarkable smile,especially,he has a habit of calling ever yone “old sport.”Intentionally, Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor.Gatsby tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simp ly an attempt to impress Daisy.Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her.Finally,Nick agrees with Gatsby’s request.He invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy rebuild their connection.Without a long time,their love rewakens,and just like Tom has an affair with Myrtle,Daisy has an affair with Gatsby.After a short time, Tom grows increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby.During the lunch at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such fervent passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her.Though Tom himself is involved in an extramarital affair, he is deeply raged by the thought that his wife could beunfaithful to him. He requires the group to drive into New York City, where he confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom asserts that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announces to his wife that Gatsby is a criminal—his fortune comes from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realizes that her preferance is to Tom.On their way back to East Egg,Daisy is with Gatsby in a car,just as they came previously,and the rest three in another.When Nick, Jordan, and Tom d rive through the valley of ashes,they discover that Gatsby’s ca r has struck and killed Myrtle,Tom’s misstress.They rush back to Long Island, where Nick knows from Gatsby that it was Daisy that was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but Gatsby intends to take the blame.The next day, Tom tells Myrtle’s husband, George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car. George, who has shaped the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover,so with anger,he finds Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead. He then shoots himself.In the end of the novel,Nick holds a small funeral for Gatsby, ends his relationship with Jordan, and moves back to the Midwest to escape the disgust he feels for the people surrounding Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth.Though Gatsby’s power to transform his dreams into reality is what makes him “great,” Nick re flects that the era of dreaming,both Gatsby’s dream and the American dream,is thoroughly over.CommentWhen I first got notice of the name of the novel,I guessed that it must talk about some man named Gatsby who transforms his previous predicament to an admirable status through his own unimaginable efforts,and gains others’ help due to his sincereness,kindness,and perseverance.Therefore,I regard thenovel to be a motivational and encouraging one before I read it.However,when I finally read it,it turned out that I was totally wrong,even though Gatsby did take pains and change himself from nobody to somebody.The novel itself isn’t an praising one.To a great extent,this novel has a sense of satire and e back to the name of the novel,in one sense,it’s ironic,for the main character of the novel is neither named Gatsby nor great.He is a criminal whose real name is James Gatz.He created the name for himself,as well as he created the whole illusive life.Nevertheless,there is something that is great.Nick considers Gatsby as a great person,for he sees both the extraordinary quality of hope that Gatsby possesses and his idealistic dream of loving Daisy in a perfect world.On the surface,it seems that the novel portrays the tragedy of love between men and women,and their complex relationship.Actually,the novel is a profound reflection and reconsideration of the 1920s when American was as a whole in a era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess,and the disintegration of the American dream.The main characters of the novel are Jay Gatsby,Nick Carraway,Daisy Buchanan,Tom Bunchanan,Jordan Baker,Myrthe Wilson,and George Wilson. Here,I want to talk about one person that gives me the deepest impression----Daisy Buchanan.As a matter of fact,according to some records and analysis,Daisy is partially based on Fitzgerald’s wife,Zelda,since the author himself is reflected on Gatsby.In the novel,Daisy is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. As a young debutante in Louisville, Daisy was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lied about his background to Daisy, claiming to be from a wealthy family in order to convince her that he was worthy of her. Eventually, Gatsby won Daisy’s heart, and promised to wait for Gatsby to come back from the war, but in 1919 she broke her promise and chose to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle.To Gatsby, Daisy represents perfection----she has the combination of charm, wealth, sophistication, and elegence that he longed foras a child.In reality, however, Daisy falls far behind Gatsby’s i magine. She is beautiful and charming, but she is also fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic.She is in extremely love with money, ease, and material luxury.Nick characterizes her not as a single-minded person,since she seems fond of Nick and occasionally seems to love Gatsby sincerely, but not of concentrated loyalty or care.Factually,at the very beginning since Daisy chooses Tom over Gatsby,and breaks the promise and love to Gatsby,Daisy proves her real nature thoroughly. What’s worse,in Chapter Ⅶ,she exhibits her viciousness when she allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson even though she herself was driving the car.And finally, when Gatsby is killed because of protecting her,she runs away with Tom even without attending Gatsby’s funeral. She is indifferent even to her own infant daughter.As is known that mother regard their children a lot in their life.However,Daisy seldom talks about her daughter until in Chapter VII that she is introduced,and still receive such a little attention and care form her mother.Thus,with an adorable appearance,Daisy has a dark side that is intolerable to the eye.In Fitzgerald’s conception of America in the 1920s, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg set.The novel is also very good at using symbolism,such as the geography,weather,the green light,the valley of ashes,and the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg.Among those symbols,two have left a profound impression.One is the weather.The weather in The Great Gatsby properly matches the emotiona l and narrative tone of the story. Gatsby and Daisy’s reunion in a pouring rain, presenting their embarrassment and complex feelings.Their love reawakens just as the sun begins to come out.On the hottest day of the summer, Gatsby’s confrontation with Tom o ccurs.And Wilson kills Gatsby on the first day of autumn,which stands for sad and derary.The other is the green light.From my understanding of the different meanings of colors,I know that green represents hope just as in this novel that the green light represents Gatsby’s h opes and dreams for the future.Gatsby associates it with Daisy, and in Chapter I he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead himto his goal. Because Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream, the green light also symbolizes the American dream and hope.However,Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty,and the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth.And the novel ends up with endless tragedy.I think the author still wanted to deliver us the information that we should pursue a dream,our dreams,which would be different form the dreams made in the novel,and of course would lead to another totally distinct result.And,as for me,there will always be a green light guiding myself throughout my life.。
The_Great_Gatsby_英文读后感
Book Report of The Great Gatsby1. About the author.F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota of mixed Southern and Irish descent. He was given three names after the writer of The Star Spangled Banner, to whom he was distantly related. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, was a salesman, a Southern gentleman, whose furniture business had failed. His greater impact to him was “even if your business has failed，we have to maintain the habit of generous style”. Mary McQuillan, his mother, was the daughter of a successful wholesale grocer, and devoted to her only son. Fitzgerald entered Princeton University in 1913, where he spent most of his time doing social activities. He left his studies in 1917 because of his poor academic records, and took up a commission in the US Army. His experiences during World War I were more peaceful than Hemingway's - he never saw action and even did not go to France. The turning point in his life was when he met Zelda Sayre while he was at one of the bases where he trained in 1918, herself as the daughter of a justice from Alabama Supreme Court and an aspiring writer. He proposed to her but failed as she thought he was just a poor boy. In 1920 appeared Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise. The book gained a success which Fitzgerald celebrated energetically in parties and married Zelda successfully. Zelda danced on people's dinner tables in endless parties to celebrate the immediate success. But that was not to be the ending for the Fitzgerald. They lived in New York City. He drank too much. She spent too much money. He promised himself to live a less costly life. Always, however, he spent more than he earned from writing. In 1925, Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, considered great work. Although it initially met with little commercial success, this novel about the American dream of material success has become one of the most popular widely read and critically acclaimed works of fiction in American literature. The life of the title character, Jay Gatsby, has been comp ared to Fitzgerald’s life.While living in the French Riviera, Zelda’s illness became serious. She suddenly began to practice ballet, dancing night and day. After a second nervous breakdown, she was hospitalized for mental illness in Carolina. During the last years of his life, Fitzgerald lived in Hollywood, earning his living as a screenwriter. He died of heart attack at the age of 45. In 1948, the hospital at which Zelda was a patient caught fire, causing her death.2. B ackground.The novel takes place following the First World War. At that time, American society enjoyed prosperity during the roaring 1920s as the economy soared. The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s mostfamous novel, is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title "Great American Novel". The book is consistently ranked among the greatest works o f American literature. “Sensitive and symbolic treatment of themes of contemporary li fe related with irony and pathos to the legendry of the American dream”. The author s howed the development and disillusion of American dream to people by means of Gat sby’s story, just as the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg of the valley of ashes witness the corruption of American society and the disillusion of American dream in that age. It is Fitzgerald’s first novel, also is the most famous one. It is a great novel about the Am erican dream and jazz age, very thoughtful.3. Summary.The Great Gatsby mainly tells of Gatsby’s quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. They meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby a poor officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas. Daisy marries the brutal, humiliating, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. Nick Garaway, the narrator of the story, is a young Mid-westerner who sells bonds in New York. He lives at West Egg, Long Island, which is separated from the city by an ash-dump. His neighbor is Jay Gatsby, who is a mysterious man, whose mansion and fabulous entertainments are financed by bootlegging and other criminal activities. When Gatsby was a poor army officer, he had fallen in love with Daisy, Nick’s beautiful cousin, but later Daisy married Tom Buchanan, who is wealthy but intelligent and brutal. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means available to him with a view to regaining Daisy’s love. However, Daisy is not what she used to be. She is in pursuit of money and social status. “Her voice is full of money”, Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel’s most famous descriptions. With huge wealth accumulated, Gatsby buys mansion across Long Island from Daisy’s noble East Egg address. Throws generous parties, and waits for Daisy to appear. When she does, events carries up with all the tragic inevitability of a Greed dream. Then with the help of Nick Gatsby tries to win Daisy back with extravagant devotion. Meanwhile Daisy’s husband takes another woman Myrtle Wilson, as his mistress. When Mr. Wilson, a garage man, becomes jealous and imprisons her in the room, Myrtle escapes, runs out on the highway, and accidently hit by Daisy, who drives the car at that moment. Gatsby tries to help Daisy, and Tom tells Wilson that it was Gatsby who kills his wife. Wilson shoots Gatsby and then himself. At the end of the story, Nick thinks over Gatsby’s bream and decides to go back home to the West.4. Impressions and comments.There is no doubt that The Great Gatsby of Fitzgerald is a great work. It shows the de velopment and disillusion of the American dream by means of Gatsby’s story, poor Ga tsby chased his dreams of wealth and romantic love in all his life, but finally failed an d lost his life. Although Gatsby failed finally, we have to admit that he is a great man; Nick has ever said to Gatsby “you are worth the whole damn bunch put together.” He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, some where back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. The “green light” that Gatsby chased and believed in just is an illusion, he just can’t figure out where is dream world and where is reality world, s o he lost in his dreams. The sharp contrast between dream and reality not only explain s Gatsby’s failure at the end, it also explains the meaninglessness of that age. In a word, these contrasts provide the readers with a panorama of 1920s. The loss of the Ameri can dream reflects the corruption of people’s morality.As far as I am concerned, this story can serve as a reminder for us. To live a meaningf ul life, we should carefully choose some dreams to pursue. And in the process of fulfil ling our dreams, we should always be conscious about what we really desire. Anyhow, only by pursuing the proper dreams can we finally get to the happiness and success. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgasticfuture that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter tomor row 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.。
The book report of The Great Gatsbay《了不起的盖茨比》英文书评
The book report of The Great GatsbayBy F. Scott. FizgeraldThe novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic. The Grreat Gatsby is ranked second in the Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. But everyone has the different criteria on good books. I think when you eat it the taste is what you need. The good books tell you clearly something that lurks in your brain dimly. So you will feel very good if you resonate with the character in books. Another point of good books is, after you have eaten it the taste is so good that you want to eat it again. The good book is amusing and thought inspiring. The Great Gatsby also has a lot of puns and symbolism. The book is a litter like what it say on the first stage.After reading the novel, I turned to search for more information about the author and the background of the story. It is said that, with The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald made a conscious departure from the writing processof his previous novels. He started planning it in June 1922, after completing his play The Vegetable and began composing it in 1923. He ended up discarding most of it as a false start, some of which resurfaced in the story "Absolution". Unlike his previous works, Fitzgerald intended to edit and reshape Gatsby thoroughly, believing that it held the potential to launch him toward literary acclaim. He told his editor Maxwell Perkins that the novel was a "consciously artistic achievement" and a "purely creative work —not trashy imaginings as in my stories but the sustained imagination of a sincere and yet radiant world". He added later, during editing, that he felt "an enormous power in me now, more than I've ever had".After the birth of their child, the Fitzgeralds moved to Great Neck, Long Island in October 1922, appropriating Great Neck as the setting for The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's neighbors included such newly wealthy New Yorkers as writer Ring Lardner, actor Lew Fields and comedian Ed Wynn. Great Neck, on the shores of Long Island Sound, sat across a bay from Manhasset Neck or Cow Neck Peninsula, which includes the communities of Port Washington, Manhasset, Port Washington North and Sands Point and was home to many of New York's wealthiest established families. In his novel, Great Neck became the new-money peninsula of "West Egg" and Manhasset Neck the old-money peninsula of "East Egg".Progress on the novel was slow. In May 1923, the Fitzgeralds moved to the French Riviera, where the novel was finished. In November he sent the draft to his editor Maxwell Perkins and his agent Harold Ober. The Fitzgeralds moved to Rome for the winter. Fitzgerald made revisions through the winter after Perkins informed him that the novel was too vague and Gatsby's biographical section too long. Content after a few rounds of revision, Fitzgerald returned the final batch of revised galleys in the middle of February 1925.By contrast, now we are on he initial stage of the socialist market economy. Our GDP and material living standard are higher than before. But our society is not in harmony. It is a litter like the American roaring jazz age. In this money crazy modern times, many people make money from fraud, bribery, exploitation and smuggling. Also in this material world, we are thirsty, worried and lost. Our goals swing to money and materialism too much. We should swing it back to true love, fraternity, righteousness, sincerity and art a litter.。
ABookReportofTheGreatGatsby了不起的盖茨比读书笔记
A Book Report of The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby is written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald which is published in 1925 and it is popular with the public. The fiction is regarded as one of the most outstanding contemporary American novels as well as establishes the position of Fitzgerald in literary history。
Francis Scott Fitzgerald （1896-1940）is one of the most outstanding writers of the 20th century in the United States. While his wife went in ostentation and extravagance。
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All of them brought Francis Scott Fitzgerald great pain and made his family live beyond their means。
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The Great Gatsby tells a story about Gatsby and his pursuit for the ‘American dreams’. During the World War One， the poor lieutenant Gatsby fell in love with an upper class girl named Daisy。
英语读书报告作文
英语读书报告作文Book Report: The Great Gatsby。
Introduction。
The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. It is set in the Roaring Twenties, a time of great social and cultural change in the United States. The novel is a commentary on the decadence and excesses of the era, as well as a critique of the American Dream. The story follows the life of Jay Gatsby, a wealthy and mysterious man who throws lavish parties in an attempt to win back the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan.Plot Summary。
The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young man from the Midwest who moves to New York City to work in the bond business. He rents a small house in West Egg, a wealthy suburb of Long Island, and becomes neighbors withJay Gatsby, a wealthy and enigmatic man who throws extravagant parties every weekend.Nick soon learns that Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan, a woman he met before he went to war. Daisy is now married to Tom Buchanan, a wealthy and arrogant man who is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, a woman from the lower classes.Gatsby enlists Nick's help in reuniting with Daisy, and the two begin an affair. However, their happiness is short-lived, as Tom learns of their relationship and confronts Gatsby. In a fit of jealousy, Tom reveals Gatsby's criminal past and accuses him of being a bootlegger.Daisy is torn between her love for Gatsby and her loyalty to her husband, and ultimately chooses Tom. Gatsby is devastated and is killed by a man hired by Tom's mistress, Myrtle.Themes。
The Great Gatsby
Book Report of The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby was written by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald who was the leader of the jazz age and one of the best America writers of the 20th century. He attended Princeton University, while left in 1917 and enlisted in the army. In an army camp he met Zelda Sayre and fell in love with her who became the model for most the pretty heroines of his later fiction. Then they were married. In 1925, he published his third novel the Great Gatsby, as one of his magnum opuses. The Great Gatsby played an important role in English literature in late 20th century.This book was told a story about Gatsby from the sight of Nick. Gatsby, the leading character in this story, was a man of wealth who almost held a big banquet every night. Nick became his neighbor by chance but knew nothing about Gatsby except his rich. However, they made friends with each other later and Nick knew Gatsby had fell in love with Daisy long time ago. Gatsby loved Daisy, Nick’s cousin, so much that he did lots of her. Unfortunately Daisy abandoned Gatsby and married Tom after Gatsby went to Europe to join the First World War. But Daisy lived an unhappy life because her husband didn’t love her and had a mistress named Myrtle. With the help of Nick, Gatsby made a date with Gatsby, but he found out Daisy had change so much that she was not the person she once had been any more. The selfish Daisy who paid excessive attention to money was unfamiliar to him. Though there was no place for Gatsby in Daisy’s heart, Gatsby insisted on his dream love until he sacrificed his life for his love. Gatsby was killed because of Daisy, the woman loved by him all his life but unwilling to attend his funeral.When I read the title of this short story the first time, I was eager to know how great Gatsby was and why he was great. Taking these questions, I finished reading the story. And finally, I found out the answers. He was great mainly because he persisted in his dream about love, never give up, and held on straight to the last. It was this persistence that touched me a lot. I think, through him we can feel a spirit, it is insistence.Gatsby was a great person, struggling to make money to achieve his dream love after knowing the person he loved had gotten married. What he had done almost aimed at Daisy, even though Daisy had changed a lot. Maybe some people think his love was tragedy, but I think Gatsby’s love is meaningful for his living with his dream all the time. it was this dream that encouraged him to strive. He died because of hislove, but his life remained legendary and meaningful when he pursued for love. His habit that he liked to write down his plans and put them into effect had impacted me much. Maybe it was this habit that led to his great achievement. Comparing our life with Gatsby’s, we may find that most of us could n’t live in a way just like Gatsby who hold his dream all the time. And that was the reason why the author of this story considered Gatsby as a great person.Why it is a novel connects with the “disillusionment” of “American Dream”? We can find answers from the text. Daisy once was Gatsby’s girlfriend, but she has rebelled against. She married to another man because she couldn’t wait any more. Sometimes we can think it was Gatsby’s poverty that leads to apartness of the two people. However, though Daisy got away from Gatsby for several years, Gatsby still had some beautiful dreams and he always thought one day these dreams could be fulfilled. But she was changed a lots, she was no longer before, the beautiful empty shell rather than a pure, lovely girl as before. Gatsby’s beautiful dream was broken into pieces at last. But he still struggled and struggled, still had a bit delusion in Daisy, so this lead to a more lamentable result. Gatsby at last became a victim of bloody Daisy. Care away and seldom person attended Gatsby’s funeral, there was a great contrast between the funeral and the parties before his death. It is a tragedy all-round. Mostly the distinct contrasts make us think quite a lot. Even his fathers on his funeral have pride rather than sadness.When it came to Daisy, I thought her mind had already been corroded by upper class and luxurious life. How selfish and terrible she was when she set up Gatsby with her husband. Her life was filled with trouble and unhappiness, which was caused by her avarice. Once people put money in the most important position, they would become more selfish and lose their original personality. In a way, it was Daisy’s greed that led her to this unfortunate life.At the end of this story, I saw the true color of all people coming to the party held by Gatsby. Gatsby made lots of friends through money, but most of them cared for their own interest instead of Gatsby’s death. This reminded us that a true friend didn’t make with money. Money can not solve all the problems, it can determine everything. So no matter what you do, please use your heart to treat everything or everyone.Just like some sentences in this book said: “so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. We should hard work, hard study togain the things we want. “Just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had”. It’s true, no matter you are rich or poor, you are you, no one can replace. You must have some advantages which others didn’t have. So believe yourself, and try to do everything you want.And after reading this book, I had appreciated a great person’s life and had more understanding about the significance of insisting on your dream. Some times we can’t put the past and the current together, for they have a long distance. The past has gone like the cloud has floated away, even the cloud is pretty, and it can’t come back and stand before you again.。
了不起的盖茨比英文读书报告
Book Report of The Great GatsbyThe introduction about the author:Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, and the most famous one is The Great Gatsby.Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925, and it has been republished in 1945 and 1953. There are two settings for the novel. The first setting is on Long Island's North Shore and the second major setting is in New York City. The book is set within the year 1922 from the spring to the autumn.Summary of this book: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, a group who had made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who were prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg was a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lived in a gigantic Gothic mansion and threw extravagant parties every Saturday night.Nick was unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was educated at Yale and had social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class. Nick drove out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce d Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynicalyoung woman with whom Nick began a romantic relationship. Nick also leart a bit ab out Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan t old him that Tom had a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lived in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travelled to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom kept for the affair, Myrtle began to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responded by breaking her nose.As the summer progressed, Nick eventually garnered an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legenda ry parties. He encountered Jordan Baker at the party, and they met Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who had a remarkable smile and called everyone “old sport.” Gatsby ask ed to speak to Jordan alone, and through Jordan, Nick later leart more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby told Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and was deeply in love with her. He spent many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties were simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wanted Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he was afraid that Daisy would refuse to see him if she knew that he still loved her. Nick invited Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby would also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablished their connection. They begin an affair.After a short time, Tom grew increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stare d at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realized Gatsby is in love with her. Though Tom involved in an extramarital affair, he was deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful to him. He forced the group to drive into New York City, where he confronted Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom asserted that he and Daisy had a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announced to his wife that Gatsby was a criminal—his fortune came from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realized that her allegiance was to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sent her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby could not hurt him.When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drove through the valley of ashes, however, they discovered that Gatsby’s car ha d struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. They rushed back to Long Island, where Nick leart from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intended to take the blame. The next day, Tom told Myrtle’s husband, George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car. George, who had leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have had been her lover, found Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead. He then fatally shot himself. Nick staged a small funeral for Gatsby, ended his relationship with Jordan, and moved back to the Midwest to escape the disgust he felt for the people surrounding Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick reflected that just as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism had disintegrated into the mere pursuit of w ealth. Though Gatsby’s power to transform his dreams into reality made him “great,” Nick reflect ed that the era of dreaming—both Gatsby’s dream and the American dream—was over.。
The Great Gatsby(英文读书报告)
The Great Gatsby(英文读书报告)The Great GatsbyI Introduction of AuthorThe Great Gatsby is written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was born in 1896 and died in 1940. His first novel Earthly Paradise made a hit and he rose to fame. He published the several novels such as Tender is the Night, Paradise, The Last Giant etc. and over 160 short stories, including Benjamin’s Fantasy Trip, Ice Palace, Winter Dream, Sensible and Back to Babylon. On the 81st Oscar Awards ceremony, the film Benjamin Button got three awards, which was adapted from his short story Benjamin’s Fantasy Trip. Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby are listed in the Top 100 novels of 20 century by the United States Academic Community. And the latter even ranks the second. In 1940 at the age of 44 he died of frustration. After his death, some of his interesting writings were put together into a collection entitled The Crack-Up. The Great Gatsby is considered Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. However in 1925 no one predicted the eminence of the novel in the new century—not even Fitzgerald himself. The story of The Great Gatsby is a good illustration.II Introduction of PlotThe novel was told the story of Gatsby by the narrator Nick. Nick is tired of his hometown’life so that he moves to New York from the Midwest of America. He rents a small house in the suburb that happens tobe next to the Gatsby’s mansion. Five years ago, Gatsby falls in love with a wealthy girl named Daisy, but he is too poor to marry her. When the First World War broke out, Gatsby had to devote himself to the army. Then Daisy is married to a rich young man Tom Buchanan. Determined to win back his lost love, Gatsby has engaged himself in bootlegging and other “shady” activities to make a fortune for the past five years. He buy a mansion just opposite to the Daisy’s house with a river lying in between. Gatsby holds dazzling parties every weekend hoping one day the married Daisy will come. With the help of Nick, the cousin of Daisy, Gatsby meet the Daisy again since five years ago. But now the lady in front of him is no longer what she used to be. She has become a vain, selfish and vulgar woman. Although he knows it, he still clings to the illusion about Daisy. One day, Daisy drives Gatsby’s car after drinking and causes an accident that kills Tom’s mistress. Daisy plots with Tom to shift the blame on Gatsby. Finally Gatsby was shotby the victim’s husband. Only Gatsby’s poor father and Nick attend the funeral. Daisy and Tom were on trip to Europe at that time.III Personal InspirationAfter reading, I always wonder why the Gatsby is “great”. In the view of most people, they must take for that Gatsby is silly for his blind love. He just lives in his memory and his imaginary world, which results in his tragedy. And I do think so. But when I come to realization that 1920s wasnamed after “Jazz” and “Money” era, I change my mind. In such amaterial-driven society, all people are indulged in pleasure and luxurywhile Gatsby is persistent to pursue his sincere love for Daisy. That’smaybe the reason why he is great.One scene in the book that impresses me most is Gatsby stand by thewindow, staring at the green light hung at the clock of Daisy’s houseunder the moonlight. The green light is a symbolism which stands for thedream and hope in Gatsby’s heart. However, the green light is distant anddim which indicates that the dream is bound to be smashed eventually. Gatsby’s self-made experience is so-called “American Dream”. Butunfortunately, the dream broke up at last. It’s not the tragedy of individualbut of the whole society, the fickle world full of material desire.As far as I’m concerned, the author titling the Gatsby “Great” is toarouse the conscience of the whole society to pursue sincerity rather thanthe money. Money is a good thing, but not everything. If you are ferventabout it, money will finally ruin the most valuable things in your life.IV Classical sentences or paragraphs*We continue struggling forward on the counter-current andwas continually pushed back until the return to the pastyears* Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter -- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.* God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!* He knew women early, and since they spoiled him hebecame contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted.* Her voice is full of money.* I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited -- they went there.* ...personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.* Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.* The rich get richer and the poor get -- children.* There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind...第二篇：the great gatsby读书报告10900字Disillusionment of the American Dream ——Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,I must have you!’—THOMAS PARKE D’INVILLIERSAuthorRecently I read The Great Gatsby, because I have ever seen the movie, I think I could understand this book better.About its author Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 and died on December 21, 1940, was regarded as one of the most significant American writers in the twentieth century. He was one of the representative writers of the Lost Generation, and also was the poet laureate of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald was restrained by two things in all his life, one is intelligence; the other one is money, he was ever possess these things, but lost them all in the end. When he dead, reviewers criticized his corrupt life, abandonment and waste his talent. His fictions reflected thedisillusion of the American Dream vividly, and showed the spirit of wilderness era of upper class in the Great Depression.The age, which Fitzgerald possessed extraordinary creativity, was a special time in American history. At that time, the World War 1 was finished, the Great Depression didn’t come, the traditional puritan ethics were destroyed, and the hedonism be gan to be popular. In his own words, “it was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.” And Fitzgerald called this age as “Jazz Age”, so he was regarded as the poet laureate of the Jazz Age. He realized the eagerness for romantic of this age observantly, and the emptiness and helplessness back of the surface luxury, and he reflected these feelings in his works. His works always used the eagerness of the young and idealism as themes, because he thought this were Americans’symbol; his works also always referred to the changingand disappointment of sentiments, because this was the fate from which people couldn’t escape of that age. BackgroundThe Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s most famous novel, is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title “Great American Novel”. The book is consistentlyranked among the greatest works of American literature. “Sensitive and symbolic treatment of themes of contemporary life related with irony and pathos to the legendry of the American dream”--. The author showed the development and disillusion of American dream to people by means of Gatsby’s story, just as the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg of the valley of ashes witness the corruption of American society and the disillusion of American dream in that age. It is Fitzgerald’s first novel, also is the most famous one. It is a great novel about the American dream and jazz age, very thoughtful.Plot SummaryThe main events of the novel take place in the summer of 1922. Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate and World War I veteran from the Midwest —who serves as the novel’s narrator —takes a job in New York as a bond salesman. He rents a small house on Long Island, in the village of West Egg, next door to the lavish mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who holds many extravagant parties but does not participate in them. Nick drives around the bay to East Egg for dinner at the home of his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a college acquaintance of Nick’s. They introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, an attractive, cynical young girl withwhom Nick begins a romanticrelationship. She reveals to Nick that Tom has a mistress, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the “valley of ashes”: an industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle to an apartment they keep for their affair. At the apartment, a vulgar and bizarre party ends with Tom breaking Myrtle’s nose after she taunts Tom about Daisy. As the summer progresses, Nick eventually receives an invitation to one of Gatsby’s parties. Nick encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, an aloof and surprisingly young man who recognizes Nick from their same division in the war. Through Jordan, Nick later learns that Gatsby knew Daisy from a romantic encounter in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion, hoping to one day rekindle their lost romance. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are an attempt to impress Daisy in the hopes that she will one day appear again at Gatsby’s doorstep. Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkwardreunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. They begin an affair and, after a short time, Tom grows increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanan’s’ house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her. Though Tom is himself involved in an extramarital affair, he is outraged by his wife’s infidelity. He forces the group to drive into New York City and confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel, asserting that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could never understand. In addition to that, he announces to his wife that Gatsby is a criminal whose fortune comes from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realizes that her allegiance is to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sends her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt him.When Nick, Jordan and Tom drive through the valley of ashes on their way home, they discover that Gatsby’s car has struck and killed Tom’s mistress, Myrtle. Nick later learns from Gatsby that was Daisy, not Gatsby himself, who driving the car at the time of the accident happened, but Gatsby intends to take the blame anyway. Myrtle’s husband falsely concludes that the driver of the yellow car is the secret lover he recently begansuspecting his wife has, and set out on foot to locate its owner. After finding out the yellow car’s owner is Gatsby, he thought that Gatsby is the person who is his wife’s lover and knocks his wife to death, so he arrives at Gatsby’s mansion shoots him when Gatsby is swimming, and then he kills himself too. Nick stages an unsettlingly small funeral for Gatsby, but nobody attends. Finally Nick feels disappoint to the ugly society and moves back to the Midwest to escape the disgust for the people surrounding Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among the wealthy on the east coast. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and hypocrisy, the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby’s power to transform his dream into reality is what makes him “great”, Nick reflects that the era of dreaming—both Gatsby’s dream and the American dream—is over.ThemeThe Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.Sarah Churchwell sees The Great Gatsby as a “cautionary tale of the decadent downside of the American dream.” The story deals with human aspiration to start over again, social politics and its brutality and also betrayal, of one’s own ideals and of people. Using elements of irony and tragic ending, it also delves into themes of excesses of the rich, and recklessness of youth. According to Fitzgerald’s own experiences and concepts, he modeled the figure—Gatsby in his book The Great Gatsby successfully, a man who lived in the dream all his life. Gatsby would rather live in the dream than go back to the reality, finally the dream ended and he also died. The author used Gatsby’s story to reflect big problems of the society successfully at that time, the hypocrisy of the upper class, the evil of money, the morbidity of social situation, the illusion of the American Dream and the sorrow of the Jazz Age. It is not difficult tofind out that Gatsby’s tragic fate has double meanings; he is not only the reflection of conflicts between illusion and reality but also the typical representative of the American Dream. Gatsby’s death represented the disillusion of the American Dream. And Daisy is the typical representative of decadent and corrupt upper class. We can see the selfishness and indifference of humanity from the book, and decadent social situation at thattime. The narrator Nick is a bystander, but he is not one of these decadent members. He told this story by his perspective, at the end of the story, he saw clearly about the corruption, decadence of the society and the fickleness of humanity, so he started his way to mid-western.ConclusionThere is no doubt that The Great Gatsby of Fitzgerald is a great work. It shows the development and disillusionof the American dream by means of Gatsby’s story, poor Gatsby chased his dreams of wealth and romantic love in all his life, but finally failed and lost his life. Although Gatsby failed finally, we have to admit that he is a great man; Nick has ever said to Gatsby “you are worth the whole damn bunch put together.” He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. The “green light” that Gatsby chased and b elieved in just is an illusion, he just can’t figure out where is dream world and where is reality world, so he lost in his dreams. The sharp contrast between dream and reality not only explains Gatsby’sfailure at the end, it also explains the meaninglessness of that age. In a word, these contrasts provide the readers with a panorama of 1920s. The loss of the American dream reflects the corruption of people’s morality.As far as I am concerned, this story can serve as a reminder for us. To live a meaningful life, we should carefullychoose some dreams to pursue. And in the process of fulfilling our dreams, we should always be conscious about what we really desire. Anyhow, only by pursuing the proper dreams can we finally get to the happiness and success.Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, butthat’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.。
The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比读书报告
BOOK REVIEWCrystal 1120113509 The book is The Great Gatsby and the a uthor is Francis Scott Fitzgerald .There are 255 pages.The name of the publisher is China Astronautic Publishing House.My English teacher recommended the book to me,saying it was a well-known book in the US and I could learn American culture.It’s the best seller in 20 century.It’s a story about Gatsby’s American dream breaking up.He loved Daisy from the bottom of hear.Woking hard,he dreamed of being successful and marring Daisy. However,he was forgotten in the dust after he died for Daisy.The story was told by nick’s tone.Nick was Gatsby’s friend and experienced a lot including see his death.Gatsby loved Dasiy but she married a rich man Tom.Daisy was not happy because Tom has a lover.It’s a western book.The setting is in the US.It was in 20th century,which is called theJazz Age.Other physical locations are Tom’s house,dock,west egg and east egg.It’s slow paced and I can follow the writer to see what will go on. Gatsby tried to be a man of wealth because he can marry Daisy then.One day Daisy caused an accident that killed Tom’s mistress, and she planned a plot with Tom to put the crime to Gatsby,which lead to the mistress husband shot Gatsby.My finally thoughts on The Great Gatsby is that this book is about the American dream.I like the book because it's vivid,attractive and make people have a deep thought The good points are that it explores people's deep feeling in detail and reflect the society through a little story,which is easy to understand.The weak point is that ituses some devices which I don't know what the author wants to present.I learned that while the nobles were addicted to luxurious life,there was still someone struggle for their for dreams. However, the Jazz Age was a tragedy for the youth full of passion and dreams.I would recommend the book to others because we can really get a lot about the culture and history during that period.。
英语读书报告
英语读书报告Book Report: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald"The Great Gatsby" is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and was first published in 1925. Set in the summer of 1922, the story takes place in Long Island and New York City, during the Roaring Twenties. It is told from the perspective of Nick Carraway, a young man who moves to New York to pursue a career in the bond business.The novel explores themes of wealth, love, and the pursuit of the American Dream. The main character, Jay Gatsby, is a wealthy and mysterious man who throws extravagant parties in the hope of attracting his long-lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Through Nick's observations, we discover Gatsby's desperate desire to be reunited with Daisy and his delusional belief that wealth and material possessions can win her back.Fitzgerald's writing style is elegant and poetic, with vivid descriptions that paint a picture of the opulent and decadent lifestyle of the Jazz Age. The characters are flawed and complex, each representing different aspects of the American Dream. Gatsby, with his immense wealth and grandiose parties, symbolizes the pursuit of material success. Daisy, on the other hand, represents the shallow and fickle nature of the upper class, as she is torn between her love for Gatsby and her marriage to Tom Buchanan, a wealthy and arrogant man.The novel also critiques the idea of the American Dream, suggesting that it is ultimately unattainable. Despite his wealth andsuccess, Gatsby is unable to win back Daisy's love and is ultimately destroyed by his own illusions. The characters' pursuitof happiness through material wealth and social status leads to moral decay and the senseless destruction of lives.One of the strengths of the novel is Fitzgerald's ability to capture the atmosphere and social climate of the 1920s. He portrays a society characterized by excess, hedonism, and a disregard for traditional values. The parties at Gatsby's mansion, described in elaborate detail, serve as a symbol of the superficiality and emptiness of the Jazz Age."The Great Gatsby" is a classic American novel that continues to captivate readers with its timeless themes and beautiful prose. It explores the dark side of the American Dream and serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of pursuing wealth and material success at the expense of moral integrity and true happiness. Fitzgerald's writing is as relevant today as it was nearly a century ago, reminding us of the pitfalls of an unchecked capitalist society and the importance of finding fulfillment beyond material possessions.In conclusion, "The Great Gatsby" is a masterpiece of American literature that offers a profound commentary on the corrupting influence of wealth and the illusory nature of the American Dream. Through compelling characters and rich storytelling, Fitzgerald paints a vivid portrait of an era defined by excess and superficiality. The novel serves as both a critique of the Roaring Twenties and a timeless exploration of the human condition. I highly recommendit to anyone interested in exploring the complexities of the American Dream and the price of obsession.。
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The book report of The Great Gatsbay
By F. Scott. Fizgerald
The Great Gatsbay is written by American author F. Scott. Fizgerald, who is considered a member of the "lost generation" of the Twenties. It was first published on 1925. The following is the main plot of the novel.
A young man named Nick Caraway, who came to New York City in string of 1922. He became involved in the life of his neighbour at Long Island, jay Gatsbay revealed to Nick, that he fell in love with his cousin Daisy before the war. At that time, he is poor. However, Daisy married Tom Buchanan, a rich but boring man of good social position. But Gatsby was still in love with her.
In Gatsby's opinion, daisy was a beautiful and charming that he had never seen. But I think she was also fickle, shallow, hypocritical. She was love with money, easy, and material luxury because she seemed to love Gatsby, but just appearance. Although I know the real Daisy, Gatsby did not know her clearly. This is the main reason why Gatsby could not get what he wanted.
Becoming wealthy is the most important for him. Large fortune was from distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities. After getting money, Gatsby got luxurious possessions. "And a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden, it was Gatsby mansion."
Besides,Gatsby went to Oxford University to get further study in order to make him more elegant and noble. He changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a study straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining arrogant eyes has established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always learning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body- he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muck shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous beverage-" a cruel body" in Nick's eyes.
Gatsby held sumptuous parties every weekend at his mansion. The party is almost unbelievably luxurious. He made friends who have outstanding fame and high position.
Due to natural instincts- vanity, Daisy began to sob helplessly;; I did love him true, but I loved you too." when Gatsby tried to convince her to leave Tom. Gatsby lost Daisy because he had no money, but he still loved her. It was the blinding love that killed him.
Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, hit and killed Tom's mistress, Myrtle Wilson, Gather knew the truth, but he kept silent to protect her. Afterwards, Tom told Myrtle's husband that it was Gatsby killed his wife. Then Wilson murdered Gatsby and committed suicide.
After Gatsby''s dying, almost no people including those who usually attended his parties came to his funeral. Nick was left to arrange Gatsby's funeral, attended only Gatsby's father and the former guests. The woman who ever allowed Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle rather than attend his funeral moved away with her husband finally, leaving no contact address.
Gatsby is the typical American youth in the twenties. He regarded Daisy as the symbol of the youth, money and status deeply. He thought innocently: he can receive the last love, his dream after having money. It was a pity. He had misunderstood the girl he loved and the boring society on the surface. So he would never made his dream come true. But, he tried his best.。