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sentences:
Everyone suspects himself of at last one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine; I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
The plot of novel
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Theme
The decline of American dream in 1920s.
It is ruined by the unworthiness of money and pleasure. Later critical writings on The Great Gatsby,following the novel’s revival, focus in particular on Fitzgerald’s disillusionment with the American Dream — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.The story deals with the limits and realities of America’s myths of social and class mobility;and the inevitably hopeless lower class aspirations to rise above the station(s) of their birth. Using elements of irony and tragic ending, it also delves into themes of excesses of the rich,and recklessness of youth.
We should balance matter and dream rationally.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world have not had
He naively thought money is omnipotent.
He was nobler than the people around him.
Gatsby
She seemed pure, elegant and beautiful.
But actually, she was very ruthless. She adored money.
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Good sentences
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me,just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantage that you ‘ve had.”
The plot of novel
A sense of loss and disillusionment come over him. Daisy and Tom do not really love each other. In fact, Tom has a mistress by the name of Myrtle Wilson,who is the wife of the owner of a garage. One day Daisy quarrels with Tom and in a fit of anger she drives Gatsby’s car and kills Myrtle in an accident. In order to protect themselves, Daisy and Tom plot to shift the blame on to Gatsby, saying Gatsby has an affair with Myrtle and he kills her eventually. Myrtle’s husband George Wilson breaks into Gatsby’s house and shots him to death. The Buchanans escape, and the only two persons attending Gatsby’s funeral are Nick and Gatsby’s father,who reads the news in newspaper.
This book symbolizes the disillusionment of the American Dream.
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Character Analysis
For love , he was simple and romantic.
Gatsby was a microcosm of the American characteristics.
Themes
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Symbol
The embodiment of Gatsby’s dream for future and it beckons to him in the night like a version of fulfillment of is desires.
The green light
So we beat on,boats against the current,borne back ceaselesslur listening!
Biograph
Major works
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Content introduction
This book wrote a tragic love story, namely , the tragedy of Gatsby.
Gatsby was forced to separare from Daisy.
Tom
He is the narrator of this book. He is also a participant in the story.
He represented the rationality and calmness of the author.
Nike
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Plot
Gatsby is a poor youth from the Midwest .He falls in love with Daisy, a girl from a wealthy family. As a poor lad ,Gatsby is too poor to marry her, so Daisy is married to a rich young man named Tom Buchanan. Determined to win Daisy back, Gatsby engages himself in Bootlegging and other illegal activities, thus earns enough money to buy a magnificent mansion. There he hosts dazzling parties every weekend in the hope of attracting the Buchanans to come. By chance his next-door neighbor,Nick Carraway, is Daisy’s relative and he helps Gatsby to make an appointment. They finally come and Gatsby meets Daisy again. But he finds Daisy is no longer the ideal love of his dream.
THE GREAT GATSBY
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Author introduction
In 1896, born in St. Paul,
Minnesota.
In1913, study in Princeton
University
In 1917, left college and joined the army
Gatsby wanted to win Daisy’s love back.
Daisy just thought their relationship an affair.
Tom and Daisy put the blame on Gatsby,causing Gatsby to be killed.
East egg & West egg
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Personal opinion
He tried to achieve dreams by personal struggle.
He was persistent in love all the time.
He maintained his original heart.
the advantages that you’ve had.
Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes,but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on.
Eyes of justice
The eyes tend to mkae observers feel as they are being scrutinized.
The eyes of Doctor T.J.Eckleburg
West egg is like Gatsby, full of garish extravangance, sybolizing the emergence of the new rich of the 1920s.East egg is like the Buchanans, wealthy, possessing high social status and powerful, sybolizing the old uper class that continued to dominate the American social landscape.
But she was also corrupt and
depraved.
Daisy
He had the unique pride of the aristocratic class.
He was decadent in money.
He ignored and violated morality. He was also selfish and sinister.