book review

The Great Gatsby is written by an Amercian writer F.Scott Fitzgerald, who was born in 1896 and died in 1940.His novel In 1920,his novel This Side of Paradise make himvery famous. Then he published the novelThe Beautiful and Damned which was also popular among the public. In the 81st Oscar Awards ceremony got three Oscar-winning films Benjamin Button was based on his short novel Benjamin’s Fantasy Trip adaptation. This novel is told us the story of Nick’stone . Nick is tired of his hometown’s life in Amercia Middle West and came toNew York . Rent a small house in the suburb of West Egg . He is Daisy’s cousin. The Gatsby is his neighbor , living in luxurious . The most impressive impression Gatsby gave him is that he often held big parties and hang out withvarious kinds of people . Also , Gatsby is kind of mysterious to him . Later ,he knew the story between Gatsby and Daisy . They loved each other when they were young , but because of Gatsby’s poor family , they broke up . Then he joined the First World War. While Daisy married to rich Kids Tom. Five yearslater , Daisy and her family moved to the West from Chicago . Nick had some close contacts with them . At that time , Gatsby made a great wealth through some kind of illegal means . Because of missing Daisy all the time , he followed Daisy came to New York and brought the villa-Gatsby Mansion which was opposite Daisy’s house in order to have a chance to meet with her. The big parties held every weekend were actually only for one person and he hoped to arise the lost love between them . Finally , Gatsby got the chance to meet with Daisy , but Daisy was not as innocent as he imaged , he found Daisy’s vanity ,vulgar and selfish . Gatsby’s years’ pink dream had been broken , but he stillinsisted it , still had any illusion about Daisy , and finally led to his tragedy .One day , Daisy was driving Gatsby’s car and caused an accident that killed Tom’s mistress, but Tom and Daisy plan a plot to put the blame on Gatsby. As a result , the victim’s husband shot Gatsby and the murderer eventually killed himself. And Daisy and Tom were travelling to Europe . Only Gatsby’s poor father and Nick attended at the funeral . The story ended up with the Gatsby became victim for selfish and cruel of Daisy . In a word, The author tries to describe the social, and certainly the shattered " the American dream " . The author not only wants to attack the luxury and hypocrisy of the classes, but also to appeal to people to pursue true love, not the greed of money and hypocrisy, although this book has a desperate ending. As far as I am concerned, to live a meaningful life, we should carefully choose dream to pursue. And in the process of fulfilling our dreams, we should always be serious about what we really desire. Anyhow, only by pursuing the proper dream can we finally get happiness.