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TheGreat Gatsby is written by an Amercian writer F.Scott Fitzgerald, who was born in 1896 and died in 1940.His novel In 1920,hisnovel This Side of Paradise make himvery famous. Then he published the novelThe Beautiful and Damned which was also popular among the public. In the 81stOscar Awards ceremony got three Oscar-winning films Benjamin Button was based on his short novel Benjamin’s Fantasy Trip adaptation. The twentieth century , theUnited States academic community selected 100 the best novels in the river ofEnglish literature . The Great Gatsbywas second. However , at the time when TheGreat Gatsby was first published in 1925 , it was not well-sold on themarket and until 17 years later , it was recognized by people . Many expertsbecame to study on it . 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 impressiveimpression 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 theywere young , but because of Gatsby’s poor family , they broke up . Then hejoined 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 someclose contacts with them . At that time , Gatsby made a great wealth throughsome kind of illegal means . Because of missing Daisy all the time , hefollowed Daisy came to New York and brought the villa-Gatsby Mansion which wasopposite Daisy’s house in order to have a chance to meet with her. The bigparties held every weekend were actually only for one person and he hoped toarise the lost love between them . Finally , Gatsby got the chance to meet withDaisy , 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 histragedy .One day , Daisy was driving Gatsby’s car and caused an accident thatkilled Tom’s mistress, but Tom and Daisy plan a plot to put the blame onGatsby. As a result , the victim’s husband shot Gatsby and the murderereventually killed himself. And Daisy and Tom were travelling to Europe . OnlyGatsby’s poor father and Nick attended at the funeral . The story ended up withthe Gatsby became victim for selfish and cruel of Daisy . Gatsby is a tragedy hero . His behavior isalways handsome and gentle . As Nick said in Chapter 3 “He smiled understandingly –much more thanunderstandingly …It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood ,believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself ”. And he is also astrong person who has a belief , knowing self-training when he was a boy . Hebecame wealthy through hard work and good luck . However , his dream is Daisy’slove . He indulges into his own dream in the imagination . “It has beyond her ,beyond everything .” His pursuit of his imaginary love is unpractical , but Iam also moved by his persistence of love because “Love ” is more than a luxury, but his not only heart but also was always committed the only one person .Gatsby is the typical example of the person who pursue their Amercian dream ,but he can change his fate because of a woman . That is his tragedy. Daisy can be said a half angle and halfdevil girl . She is a conservative and fickle-minded woman . At her young age ,she was even willing to abandon everything and live forever with Gatsby . Aftermarriage, she was loyal to her husband even her husband had love affairs, whichin my opinion was her tragedy .While she is also a woman who worshiped moneyand that was why she wanted to be with Gatsby . Because of her selfishness andstupidity led to Gatsby’s tragedy . The reason why Gatsby is great because he issincere and persistent waiting for his love . However , in the society wherepeople were pursuing pleasure and pride luxury , in this material-drivenenvironment , whether it is Gatsby , Daisy or Tom , their pursuit, devotion andtransfer for love were closely linked with money and social status. A personlike Gatsby had no friends except Nick , people were polite to him just becausehe was rich , he can give them some benefits . The story began in 1920s-was named by “jazz”and “money” era . It used Nick’s tone to tell the story . Happened as if isNick’s experience. It’s a unique literary vision , profoundly revealed theburst reason about Amercian Dream at Jazz and Money age . The lifestyle trendsto money worship was expressed most vividly . But it was under the cover of theselfishness and indifference of human nature