Book Review

The Great Gatsby Book Review The background of the work is the Coolidge boom period in the 1920s, during which the American economy reached unprecedented prosperity. In themoney-oriented society, Gatsby's pursuit of wealth clearly conforms to the ideas of the American people at that time. I would like to talk about the destruction of the protagonist and his love. In fact, he is just a moonshiner who has made a fortune, but he has always been dispossessed, despised and excluded by the so-calledupper class; Of course, Daisy is attracted to Gatsby, and it is not because Gatsby can provide him with more material enjoyment and spiritual comfort. She does have the idea and even the courage to separate from Tom, but when she hears that Gatsby is just a boot legger instead of the status she imagined, her stingy love is suddenly gone. The love between Gatsby and Daisy is based on money, but I think there is no love between them, or at most, it is one-way. He thinks he can buy his old love's heart with money. The ironclad evidence is that in order to cover up her crime, Daisy unkindly borrows a knife and kills Gatsby despicably. Daisy's values are forgotten romance and innocence, numb parasitic money. Gatsby's destruction is not so much about being shot through as it is about placing ideals on the wrong objects and ending up as playthings to be exploited. What is certain about him is that his greatness is that he can stick to his ideals in the era of materialism and money worship -- Daisy. However, henever wavered and never changed his ideals before and after he became rich. So what was remarkable about him was that he stood apart fromothers, who were willing to sacrifice their ideals for reality. Gatsby, on the other hand, would rather sacrifice the reality for the ideal. The author glimpsed the big with the small, reflected the collapse of the American dream with tragic love, and also implicitly satirized the greedy and decadent nature of the upper class society. In the "American Dream", Gatsby is a small person who is loyal to the ideal and is deceived and exploited without realizing it.