Reflection

"The Great Gatsby" is a book descripting the Amercian society in 1920s. Nick was a poor clerk, who broke into the thrift and materialistic world of millionaire Gatsby. To his surprise, he found that his heart was hauled by the green light on the riverbank, where lived his beloved Daisy. At this part, the story moved back to introduce the development of the character Gatsby, who was poor and not prestigious in the past. After a long departure of his beloved Daisy, he struggled to earn money to be rich, only for getting back his beloved girl. However, since Daisy had become a secular material girl, she deceited him and slandered him to death. I felt extremely pitiful and indignant after reading the ending. However, if we search for the deeper implicature of the story, you will find that it is actually the reflection of "The American Dream". It was an ideal dream for the pursuit of material and the desire to become a "big man". Why did it clapse day by day? The reason is that there is no society depending only on the high-level material to maintain permanent interest and hope, since we are individuals demanding for spiritual satisfaction. A dream with only desire for the wealth is a mirage at all, just like the tragedy of Gatsby's life.