Book Review
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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 the money-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 play things 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.
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