The Great Gatsby

This book is about love between an obsessive man and a money worshiper. Gatsby spent his whole life pursuing love. His was a great person but abandoned by the whole world.  His dream was bound to fail,just like the American dream. So the true meaning of this novel is the destruction of the American dream. The book has reflected the hopeless situation in New York in the 1920s. America is going towards decline, and numerous American dreams had been broken. The lower class and the middle class had no opportunities to change their origins and their endings. Everyone is addicted to alcohol and money. Therefore, tragedy is inevitable.   Just like the last sentence in the book said:"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past". But from my point of view,Gatsby's pursuit and persistence of pure love is worthy of our admiration.