The book report of The Great Gatsbay1《了不起的盖茨比》英文读书报告
Book Report of Great Gatsby(原创)
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.。
了不起的盖茨比读书报告
A Book Report of The Great GatsbyBy Li LiF. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. UK: 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 author’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。
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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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.。
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。
了不起的盖茨比英文阅读报告
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-The Great Gatsby
Book ReportThe Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby was written in 1924 by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald; the copy I read was a Mass Market paperback print, published in Nanjing in 2013.F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American novel and short story writer, is also one of the most outstanding writers in the United States in the twentieth century. He was born on September 24, 1896 and died on December 21, 1940. Fitzgerald's middle name comes from a distant cousin Francis (Francis Scott Key), he was a famous lawyer. Fitzgerald's sister Louise (died shortly after birth) was also named according to his name.Fitzgerald was not only to write novels, but also write short stories that have the writer's frequency characteristics. Fitzgerald wrote a total of 4 novels, 150 short stories in his life. His novel vividly reflected the "American dream" dashed in the 1920s and showed the spirit of "wasteland era" in American upper society during the Great Depression.The book is the epitome of classical representative of American society named The Great Gatsby. Also, The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's the most famous novels, and it has established his status in the history of the American modern literature and become one of the representative writers of the "Jazz Age" and the spokesman of the "Lost Generation".When I started reading this book, I wanted to know what the story is. After reading, I knew that the story happened in the upper class in modern American society. The main character, Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner who had graduated from Yale, moved to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rented a house in the West Egg district of Long Island. Nick's next-door neighbor in West Egg was a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who fell in love with his cousin Daisy before the war. At that time, he was poor. However, Daisy married Tom Buchanan, a rich but boring man of good social position. But Gatsby was still in love with her. So in order to attract her attention and win her back, Gatsby often threwextravagant parties every Saturday night. Gatsby's luxurious lifestyle and wild parties were simply an attempt to impress Daisy. He now wanted Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablished their connection. They began an affair. Gradually, Gatsby found that Daisy was not the original Daisy, she was no longer a pure girl that Gatsby imagined, but a foolish, selfish, vulgar, hypocritical and beautiful body. Gatsby's beautiful dreams finally were broken, but he was still making the final struggle, still had a fantasy to Daisy so that he suffered a lot in the end.Fitzgerald used the first person successfully to write this book and also used Nick as a narrator to recall the story. He was not only an authority, but also a spectator. As the authority, he was a neighbor of Gatsby, a distant cousin of Daisy and the old acquaintance of Tom. He also helped Gatsby and Daisy reunite, witnessed the conflict between Tom and Gatsby and dealt with Gatsby's funeral. As a spectator, he from did not know Gatsby to become his mourner. It was just a day Nick finally saw through the people that he contacted with, realized the "golden age" of the American society in which they lived.As far as I'm concerned, I think Gatsby was a great man because he loved Daisy all the time. His heart was pure. Although he struggled for years, entered the upper society circles, he never swayed by money, power, and honor. Also, his construction of career was so as to be more close to Daisy. Unfortunately, his life ended in tragedy, including his dream of love.Gatsby believed in the green light, the fantastic future that year by year recedes before us. It escaped us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… and one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.（677 words）。
英文版读书报告
英文版读书报告Book Report - "The Great Gatsby""The Great Gatsby" is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and was published in 1925. Set in the 1920s, the book explores the themes of wealth, love, and the American Dream. The story follows the life of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious and wealthy man who throws extravagant parties in the hopes of winning back his love, Daisy Buchanan.The novel takes place in The Roaring Twenties, a time of economic prosperity and social change in America. Fitzgerald portrays this era through the characters and their morally corrupt actions. The main character, Jay Gatsby, is a self-made millionaire who rose to wealth by questionable means. He falls deeply in love with Daisy, a married woman from his past, and dedicates his life to winning her back. This obsession leads to tragic consequences and highlights the theme of the pursuit of the American Dream.The character of Gatsby is a complex and enigmatic figure. While he appears to have everything, he is ultimately lonely and disillusioned. Through Gatsby, Fitzgerald criticizes the shallowness of the upper class and the pursuit of wealth and status. Gatsby's parties are extravagant and decadent, but they are also empty and devoid of true happiness. The novel shows that material wealth and social status do not guarantee fulfillment or happiness.Fitzgerald also explores the theme of love and its destructive power. Gatsby's love for Daisy is all-consuming, but it is not reciprocated in the same way. Daisy is a shallow and spoiledcharacter who is more interested in material wealth and societal expectations than true love. The novel raises questions about the nature of love and whether it is worth sacrificing everything for."The Great Gatsby" is a beautifully written novel with rich descriptions and lyrical prose. Fitzgerald's use of symbolism and imagery adds depth to the story and enhances the themes he explores. The green light at the end of Daisy's dock and the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are examples of symbolic elements that are woven throughout the narrative.Overall, "The Great Gatsby" is a thought-provoking novel that explores the dark side of the American Dream and the emptiness of material wealth. Fitzgerald's portrayal of characters and his vivid descriptions of the era make the story come alive. The themes of love, wealth, and the pursuit of happiness are relevant even today, making this novel a timeless classic. I would highly recommend "The Great Gatsby" to anyone interested in delving into the complexities of human desires and the consequences of our actions.。
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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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。
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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.。
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Book report---The Great GatsbyI have heard of the famous novel The Great Gatsby for many st year I watched the movie of The Great Gatsby.It’s really an amazing movie I’ve never seen it before.So I decided to read about it.Then after reading about this book,I think I have gotten some sense about the morality of American society at that time.The story was narrated by Gatsby’s friend Nick Carraway.During the World War one,Gatsby fell in love with a girl called Daisy.Gatsby was just a poor soldier ,but Daisy lived in an upper class.At that time they love each other but Gatsby sent overseas by the army.Daisy gave up waiting for him and married a man called Tom, a man of her class,instead of Gatsby.After the war,Gatsby came back.He wanted win Daisy back.He bought a house and held parties in hope that Daisy would attend.Daisy came to his party one day.On her way home,Daisy drove the car and hit Myrtle---Tom’s mistress.Tom lied to Myrtle’s husband that Gatsby killed his wife.Therefore,Gatsby took the whole blame and shot dead by Myrtle’s husband.At the funeral,most of Gatsby’s friend didn’t come for all kinds of excuses.Because they knew that Gatsby was no longer useful to them.Daisy,the real killer,doesn’t sent any flowers or messages.The funeral showed the hypocritical relationship among people After reading the story,I can see a picture about the America at that time.In that time,people are void of spiritual world.Gatsby held lavish parties,which was fashionable and pointless.Beautiful girls,drunk men and boisterous crowds there,but few of them knew their host and went without invitation.The parties was blurred as one confused mass,showed purposelessness and loneliness in people’s heart,Actually,It was typically in “The Jazz Age”,people lost belief in American Dream and indulge themselves in drinking and dancing.Gatsby sunk into his own dream deeply and unable to wake up,The contrast between dream and reality not only explained Gatsby’s failure but also the disillusion of American dream.The loss of American dream reflects the corruption of people’s morality at that time.For my part,this story can serve as a reminder for us.To love a meaningful life,we should carefully choose some dreams to pursue,And in the process of fulfilling our dream,we should always be concious about what we really desire.So that we can fulfill our dream smoothly.第页共页。
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_Great_Gatsby_英文读后感
The_Great_Gatsby_英文读后感第一篇：The_Great_Gatsby_英文读后感Book Report of The Great Gatsby 1.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, Fitzgeraldpublished 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 compared 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.Background.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 most f amous 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 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.3.Summary.The Great Gatsby mainly tells of G atsby’s quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan.They meet five years beforethe 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 statu s.“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 backhome to the West.4.Impressions and comments.There is no doubt that The Great Gatsby of Fitzgerald is a great work.It shows the development and disillusion of 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 m an;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 believed 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’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 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 carefully choose 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, but that’s no matter tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….and one fine morning so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.第二篇：英文读后感篇一：老人与海英文读后感this year summer vacation, i read the american well-known writer hemingway's novel “ old person and sea ”.i extremely admire in the novel the senior fisherman's will, he let me understand one person certainly must have relentless spirit, only then could obtain successfully.the novel description is one year near sixty years of age senior fisherman, when alone goes to sea in one fishing, fished one big fish, actually did not pull.the senior fisherman socialized several days after the fish, only then discovered this was the big marlin which one surpassed the oneself fishing boat several fold, although knew perfectly well very difficult to win, but still did not give up.afterwards and further because in the big marlin wound fish fishy smell brought in several crowds of shark fish snatches the food, but the old person still did not hope like this to give up, finally highlighted encircles tightly, returned to the big fish belt the fishing port, lets other fishermen not admire already.when i read “ the senior fisherman think: here to the seacoast really was too near, perhaps could have a bigger fish in a farther place… ” when, i extremely admire this senior fisherman, because he by now already projected on some fish, but he had not settled to the present situation, but was approaches the bigger goal advance.again has a look us, usually meets one slightly is difficult, we all complain incessantly.we will be the motherland future, will be supposed to like this old person same mind lofty aspiration, will even better pursue even better, the bigger goal.when i read “ the bi g marlin start fast to gather round the young fishing boat hover, twined the cable on the mast , the old person right hand lifted up high the steel fork, leapt the water surface in it the flash, did utmostthrows to its heart, one wail ended the big fish's life, it was static static floats on the water surface… ” when, my heart also liked together the big stone falls.i extremely admire old person that kind do not dread, the relentless spirit, although knows the match strength is very strong, but he not slightly flinches, but is welcomes difficultly above.just because had this kind of spirit, the senior fisherman only then achieved this life and death contest success.we also must study senior fisherman's spirit in life, handles the matter does not fear the difficulty, only then can obtain successfully.篇二：双城记英文读后感After reading “A tale of two cities”“A tale of two cities” is one of Dickens's most important representative works.The novel profoundly exposed the society contradiction before the French Revolution,intensely attacks the aristocratic social class is dissolute and cruel,and sincerely sympathizes with the depressed classes.The novel also described many magnificent scenes like the revolt people attacked Bastille and so on,which displayed people's great strength.The novel has portrayed many different people.Doctor Manette is honest and kind but suffers the persecution actually，Lucie is beautiful and gentle，Charles is graceful and noble，Lorry is upright and honest，Sydney is semblance of indifferent, innermost feelings of warm,unconventional but also selfless and lofty，Miss pross is straightforward and loyal，Evremonde brothers are cruel and sinister……The complex hatred is hard to solve, the cruel revenge has made more hatreds, loves rebirth in the hell edge,but take the life as the price.As an outstanding writer,in Dickens's work,the language skill is essential.Each kind of rhetoric technique,like the analogy,the exaggeration,the contrast,the humorous,and the taunt are handled skillfully,and the artistry of the work is alsodelivered the peak.“A tale of two cities” has its difference with the general historical novel, its character and the main plot are all fictionalizes.With the broad real background of the French Revolution,the author take the fictional character Doctor Manette's experience as the main clue,interweaves the unjust charge, love and revenge three independences but also incident cross-correlation stories together,the plot is criss-crossed,and the clue is complex.The author use insert narrates,foreshadowing,upholstery and so many techniques,causes the structure integrity and strictness,the plot winding anxious and rich of theatrical nature,it displayed the remarkable artistic skill.the style “A tale of two cities” is solemnity and melancholy,fills indignantion,but lacks the humor of the early works.篇三：飘英文读后感Scarlett , a very personality figures，the two mans she love ,neither does she know about.To her, I was compelled to admire, admire her strong and brave, admire her to lay down in the environment, farm workers previously suffered education, admire her to disregard the community to create their own expression of the cause.She is in the whole story, all a person full of fighting will full of vitality.I appreciated most , it is this “ Tomorrow is another day of hers.”.promising forever, full of fighting will , will never give up, never desperate.I think I'm moved by her.So, whenever I meet difficulty, the mood is not good, I will tell oneself : “ Tomorrow is another day.” 'Gone with the Wind' is absolutely a good book that is worth sampling repeatedly, the characters are graceful , the plot rises and falls, exciting boldly and unconstrainedly, though the subjective factor because of the author among them , the appraisal on U.S.A.'s Civil War is not objective and overall, but as to angle of literature, thisone fine piece of writing generation definitely absolutely, worth visiting.Title: The Little princeAuthor: Antoine de St-ExuperyMain Characters: The little prince, the pilot, the rose, the fox, the s nake, etc.Despite I’ve not in my childhood yet, I still prefer reading fairy-tale stories.The tales, which accompany with me in my old days, often make me think of some precious experience and sensation which only belong to children.This summer I’ve review this kind of tale, which was published in 1940.It’s the world-famous fairy-tale by the French author, Antoine de St-Exupery, The Little prince.As many other fairy-tales, the outline of The Little prince is not very complex.“I”，the narrator of the story, is a pilot whose plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara.In this occasion, the pilot makes the acquaintance of the little prince, a little boy from another planet, the Asteroid B612.The little prince has escaped from his tiny planet, because he has some quarrel with a rose, which grows on his planet.In that case he left his own planet and took an exploration at some neighbor asteroids.On his all-alone journey, the little prince meets different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer.From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd.Following the instruction of the geographer, he descends in the Sahara, on the earth.篇四：小王子英文读后感Main Characters: The little prince, the pilot, the rose, the fox, the snake, etc.Despite I've not in my childhood yet, I still prefer reading fairy-tale stories.The tales, which accompany with me in my old days, often make me think of some precious experience and sensation which only belong to children.This summer I'vereview this kind of tale, which was published in 1940.It's the world-famous fairy-tale by the French author, Antoine de St-Exupery, The Little prince.As many other fairy-tales, the outline of The Little prince is not ver y complex.“I”，the narrator of the story, is a pilot whose plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara.In this occasion, the pilot makes the acquaintance of the little prince, a little boy from another planet, the Asteroid B612.The little prince has escaped from his tiny planet, because he has some quarrel with a rose, which grows on his planet.In that case he left his own planet and took an exploration at some neighbor asteroids.On his all-alone journey, the little prince meets different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer.From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd.Following the instruction of the geographer, he descends in the Sahara, on the earth.Traveling on the earth, the little prince, who sees a garden of five-thousand roses, is overcome with astonishment and sadness, as he considers his rose is unique in the universe before.At that time a fox appears.The fox, who tell the little prince about the meaning of the word “tame”，becomes his new friend.At the time to say farewell, the fox makes him know that his rose is unique because she is his rose and tamed by him.From that the little prince begins to treasure friendship and be responsible to his rose.At the anniversary day of his descent of the earth, rejecting the pilot's advice, he goes back to his own planet by bite of a snake.“It's too far.I can not carry this body with me.It's too heavy.” he said.He tells his friend, the pilot, he must be responsible for his rose, so he has to go back.At the end the author doesn't tell us the ending directly.Maybe it's more significant for us to imagine,and for more, think over.One of the important characters is the rose.Growing on the planet, she is very beautiful, but her coquetry and vanity suffer the little prince a lot.In spite of they love each other, he soon becomes unhappy.On the time of his departure, he just knows she certainly loves him.The character of the little prince actually represents the children, and their native thoughts and deeds.On the contrary, the inhabitants on the other planets, such as the king, the businessman and the conceited man, they also reflect the defects in the grown-up's world.The real theme of this fairy-tale with a little sadness, I guess, is the consequence of pure love and friendship in our lives, but not others “matters of consequence” of the grown-ups.Unbelievable, this little book moved me a lot.I seldom think about the true meaning of love and life before.Well, now I can say, with my short sixteen-year's life experience, it's like the stars in the sky that lit my heart.The little prince is not only an ordinary fairy-tale for children, but also for grown-ups, and our teenagers.Nevertheless, when I read this book, I feel a little sad –about ourselves, whom are losing more and more innocence.篇五：傲慢与偏见英文读后感The feeling of 《pride And prejudice》Then man treat great event in one’s life with punishing, Demonstrate different attitudes to the love question of the marriage of young girl of the family origin of middle class of villages and towns, Thus reflected authors oneself’s marriage view: It is wrong to get married for the property, money and position;Get married and does not consider that above-mentioned factors are unwise too.So, she objects to getting married for money , objecting to regarding the marriage as a trifling matter.She emphasizes the importance of the idealmarriage , and regard men and women’s emotion as the foundation stone which concludes the ideal marriage.The woman protagonist in the book Elizabeth comes from the little landlord’s family, reaches the west to have deep love for for the rich and powerful people sons and younger brothers.Reach the disparity of ignoring family status and wealth of the west, propos e to her, but is refused.Elizabeth’s misunderstanding and prejudice to him are a reason, but a main one is the arrogance that she dislikes him.Reach the thes of the west in fact status’ the reflections of difference, exist this kind arrogant, Not having common thoughts and feelings between he and Elizabeth, the marriage that can not have lofty ideals.Elizabeth watches conducting oneself in society and a series of behavior of reaching the west personally afterwards, See he change the proud conceited expressions of passing by, dispel misunderstanding and prejudice to him, Thus concluded the happy marriage with him.篇六：悲惨世界英文读后感“ Les Miserables ”（1862）is representative works of Victor Hugo,as one of the most famous novels in the French literature.The novel basic plot is Ran A Rang pitiful life history.He originally is one poor family background worker, because the income insufficient family member gets by, by one time stole the bread is arrested is put in prison.passed 19 years firm prison and the bitter service life.The punishment completely after also has the larceny behavior, but benevolent bishop in the rice the sorrowful influence, the transformation is one shed oneself manner person.He uses an alias is Madland, works as the entrepreneur, and is pushed for mayor.But soon and further because exposed the status is arrested is put in prison, after escapes rescues the deceased female worker Fantin's daughterCosette match from one bastard hand special, went to paris.Afterwards again unceasingly encountered police's pursuit.The Ran A Rang entire life fills is imprisoned the pain which the bitter service and drifts about destitute, this is the novel main clue.“ Les Miserables ” is the work which one realism and the romanticism unifies, the very many chapters glitter the realism glory, such as , in 1832 paris's street barricade war all wrote is quite real.But the romanticism technique quite was also obvious in the plot arrangement, writes the many extraordinary events.If Ran A rang lets lie down is lifted in the coffin the monastery, he rescues from the street barricade Marilius, all is strange, molds, environment description, symbolic and contrast technique aspect and so on utilization in the character image, also manifests the romanticism the characteristic.篇七：阿甘正传英文读后感“Mom always said life is just like a box of chocoles.You'll never know what you gonna get.”Ever find the grind of life getting you down? Is the day-to-day struggle threatening to drag you under? If so, there is a movie out there that can replenish your energy and refresh your outlook.passionate and magical, Forrest Gump is a tonic for the weary of spirit.For those who feel that being set adrift in a season of action movies is like wandering into a desert, the oasis lies ahead.Forrest Gump who is unfortunately to be born with a lower IQ and the muscle problem, usually, people always think this kind of person can't be successful in doing anything.But, instead, this unlucky man has achieved lots of incredible success, he is a football star, a war hero, and later a millionaire!In the contention of the best picture of the 67th Oscar Award in 1995, film Have got six Grand prixes , such as the best picture ,the best actor , the best achievement in directing , adapting drama , the best achievement in film editing and the best visual effect bestly ,etc.at one blow.The film was passed to a intellectual disturbance person the description of life has reflected every aspect of U.S.A.'s life, important incident of social political life make and represent to these decades such as U.S.A.from one unique angle.Film adapt Winston novel of the same name of Groom since.Forrest Gump mould incarnation of virtue is honest keeping one's word , conscientiously , brave paying attention to emotioning among film.In the film, Forrest Gump is a very pure image, but Jenny has become the degenerate symbol.And write the great discrepancy originally in this.To all that narrated, since beginning all behave with a kind of tender feeling and well-meaning attitude after all for the film, having even joined poesy composition, this makes the film seem soft and have no injury.The film advocates to traditional moral concept and embodiment.Make film apt to accept by people, director superb lay out skill and film application of language make the film very attractive too.Success with commercial for film content of the film has given security, and the treatment on director's art makes the film more excellent, this is reason that the film succeeds.It was the box-office hits the most in that year to become U.S.A.in 第三篇：英文读后感The Happy PrinceThis story’s main characters are the statue of the happy prince and a swallow who planned to fly to Egypt in winter.The happy prince implored the swallow to be his messenger to send his sapphires and gold leaves that were coverd on him to those people who needed help.The swallow was moved by the happy prince and decided to stay with him always.But the swallow wasforzen to death when the winter came.And the statue of the happy prince was pulled down,because he was not elegant and beautiful anymore.I’m deeply moved by the happy prince who is full of great love.And the swallow was also lovable.They sacrificed their lives to save others.How great they are!In our daily life,we also need to be pleased to help others who are in trouble.Only in this way will we have a harmonious world and be happy everyday.Ivan The FoolIvan is a diligent young man who is not to be concerned for personal gains or losses.He gets on well with others and makes everyone happy.The devil knows Ivan caused everyone to be happy and is mad very much.So the devil wants to make people become mad at each other.He tries all he can to achieve his evil goals but always faills because of Ivan’diligence and braveness.At the end of this story,Ivan beat the devil and works with the people.Everyone has enough food and clothes.They live happily.This story tells us the simple truth that we should work with our hands to get food and clothes.And justice will beat evill in the end.And we also ought to learn from Ivan.In our daily life,we shouldn’t be concerned for our personal gains and lossess very much.Only in this way will we gain more happiness! 第四篇：英文读后感The Glory of Humanity“Whoever saves one life,saves the world entire”.These words were carved in the ring which is made of a worker's golden teeth.Schindler's List tells us the real story of Oskar Schindler who protect 1100 Jews from the frightful slaughter in World War II.Schindler is a German speculator.He persuade the former accountant to help him get enough money and bought a bad managed enamelware company.He hired many Jews to work inhis factory for lower wages.He got the army contracts,produced pots and pans,and make a fortune.In 1943,a slaughter took place in Krakow.Schindler was shocked.At the risk of viola te the “Race and Resettlement Act”,he try his best to help Jews.He hired Jews and protected them by bribing the officers.He even bought his workers that cost him a fortune.He paid for each name in his list.The list is life.In the new factory,the shells made in his factory all can not be fired.He would rather buy shells that made him lose a lot of money.When the war ended,he was broken.The glory of humanity Schindler delivered warmedthe people in darkness.He was remembered by people,by history.第五篇：英文读后感（模版）A good storyThis summer I read a book named “The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”.The man in the story is very cool.So far, I have read many books, but Robinson impresses me.First of all, I would like to tell you the story.Robinson Crusoe was born in 1632, in the city of York in England.His father wanted him to get a good job and live a quiet and comfortable life.But he didn’t agree with his father.He wanted to have adventure and exciting life, so he wanted to be a sailor.He started his first journey with his friends on September1st, 1951.He went to London and stayed there for some time.Then he went to sea for the second time.But it was terrible.A pirate ship came after them.A long hard fight later, they and the ship were the pir ates’ prisoners.Two years later, he got free from his master.After long time, he went to Brazil and worked hard for some years, so he became rich.But he went to sea again in 1659.The ship was broken by the sea.The sea carried him to anisland.Then he began his new life on the island on September30, 1969, and lived on the island for twenty-seven years, two months and nineteen days.In the twenty-seven years, he and the man Friday lived together happily for some years.At the end of the story, he said goodbye to his island and sailed home to England.I think Robinson was good in some ways, although sometimes he was stupid.He likes adventures, although they are really dangerous.He likes help others.In the story, he helped Friday, Friday’s father, a Spanish, a captain and the captain’s first and second officers.He is a very kind man.I really want to be a great people like Robinson.Because I hope people think I’m a nice student.So how am I going to do that? First of all, I’m going to study all my subjects very hard.Teachers will think me is a good students.At the second, I want to have more friends.I hope I usually help my classmates or my friends in the future.I need to be friendly to others.Now I am a class monitor, I don’t know what I am going to do in the future.But I hope I can be a doctor.I think doctor is a great job, although doctors usually feel very tired.Doctors can help people.They help people keep in good health.As a doctor, I can help people when they need my help.I will help people more and more.I want to be a helpful people like Robinson.When I finished reading the book, I thought it’s a really good story.The story gives me an experience: when you are in trouble, don’t be afraid, try to do it, and you will be successful.Nothing is impossible, if you use your heart in it.。
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 n ext-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, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce d 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 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 extravagan t 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 lunche on at the Buchanans’ house, Ga tsby 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 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 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.。
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.。
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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.。
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A Report of The Great Gatsby赵清清英语翻译121 1207032008 The book is about a romantic and painful story, written by F.Scottl Fitizgerald who was one of the greatest modern writers.The main characters in this novel are the younger- Gatsby who was a soldier and the beautiful and graceful girl-Daxi who was born in a wealth family. It is a painful story. In time of war, Gatsby loved the Daxi; however, he was a poor soldier and didn’t have enough money to marry with Daxi. He could do only thing was that love Daxi forever. After the war, the wretched Gatsby knew the sad news that Daxi had gotten married with Tom who was a wealth and handsome businessman. It happened to that Daxi was not happy after marrying, because her husband had an affair with another woman. In order to live with Daxi. The Gatsby did business harder by illegal alcohol trade. After a few years, he became a millionaire. He never gave up loving the Daxi. To attract Daxi, he bought a cottage which is opposite to the Daxi and held much crazy party. After those things, Gatsby met with Daxi in Nice’s house and fell into love.Unfortunely, Tom who was the husband of Daxi .As a result of that, Daxi must make a choice that she loved which one of them and lived with. But she hesitated and wandered two of them. One day, Daxi who drank driving killed the mistress of Tom. However Tom transferred the crime to Gatsby. Later soon, the husband of mistress killed Gatsby by gun. Atfuneral, only father and Nike attended and the family of Daxi traveled happily.From the character of Daxi, we can know a truth that money is everything in that age. It can replace everything, including family, friendship, loving, and so on. As a proverb says money makes the man go. The writer wrote this novel to reflect the American dream. In that time, everybody perused the station and money. To earn money, people can do everything illegally, such as selling alcohol. When people saw rich people, people would show respect for them, even they did some thing against the law. In this novel, Gatsby was a person who pursued the station and money by trading illegally. However, the writer called him the great Gatsby as he held to his love for Daxi and never gave up. When he was a poor soldier, he loved Daxi, but when he was a wealth man, he still loved Daxi. Despite Daxi married with Tom. However, in an age of extravagance and waste, Tom, Daxi and Gatsby pursued everything which was related to the money. Perhaps in that age, money means everything. It was a product of that society. It was just a process of the development of economy. So it was a common pheromone, we can not comment too much on it.The author described the live which happen after the world war Ⅱ.perfectly. By presenting the Dali, he showed a picture people were indifferent in an age of extravagance and waste. This novel is also anexperience of him.。
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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.。