三等奖 黄烨娜作品
The Great Gatsby
When I was young and inexperienced, my father taught me a lesson that I still remember today, "whenever you want to criticize anyone" he said to me, "just remember that not everyone in the world has the advantages you have. "
The greatness about The Great Gatsby is that it describes the destruction of the American dream of some underclass people in the 1920's, and tears the veil of hypocrisy of the upper class, revealing the misery of love and marriage based on money. Behind the glitz of life is emptiness and loneliness and loss of self.
By chance, needy staff Nick into the spendthrift monopoly Gatsby's secret world, surprised to find that all his thoughts were on the little green light on the riverbank where his beloved Daisy lived. Nevertheless, the cold reality could not accommodate the ethereal dream, in the end, the goddess in Gatsby's mind was just the material girl of the world. When all the truth came out, Gatsby finally became the victim of selfish and cruel Daisy, and his tragic life was like fireworks that sparkled for a moment but left an eternal disillusionment.
Gatsby is great for the reason that he has a dream in his heart and believes in love. His father took out his schedule of dreams and demands on his personality. He is a bystander at his party. He is self-disciplined, and a true gentleman. That era still believed that love and the pursuit of dreams were the great things about Gatsby.
In the novel, Gatsby's greatness is used to foil the meanness and selfishness of others. Nick says to Gatsby, "They are no good, any of them! You are better than all. ＂ As the novel says, " Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short - winded elation of men."
What is the American dream? In his 1910 speech in Paris, entitled the citizens of the republic, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, " it is never those who judge from the sidelines, not those who judge of the failings of others, not those who accuse others of what they could do better, that matter. "
The glory belongs to those who truly stand in the arena and struggle. They are covered with dust, sweat and blood. They are fearless. They make mistakes and fall down again and again, for there must be a blow along the way, and yet they push on and do it. They appreciate their own commitment and focus. They are dedicated to noble causes. At best, they end up savoring great victories and accomplishments. In the worst case, provided that they fail, at least they fall with greatness, for the cold and timid souls who never know whether to win or lose are nowhere equal.
Gatsby is great in that he is against the current, struggling forward, against the spiritual strength of fate. As the book ends, "We press on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. "
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