This book tells the life story of gatsby from the perspective of his neighbor. Poor Nick had just arrived in New York and was sharing a house with a friend to save money on rent. As a result, his friend was temporarily moved out of New York and had to rent the house alone. He found that his neighbor gatsby often held big parties. In this way, gatsby and Nick got to know each other, and Nick could have an in-depth understanding of the story behind gatsby's banquet.

It turns out that gatsby had a lover Daisy when he was young. They had a beautiful love, but the war broke out, and gatsby was forced to separate from his lover. Wait for him to come back when fame and success, only to find that the love of the past has long been married to another rich family of dude Tom. Naive gatsby thought that it was money that hindered his love with Daisy, so he held a banquet in the mansion every day to attract Daisy's attention.

However, Daisy was not happy after she married Tom. Tom had numerous mistresses outside. Even Daisy's beauty could not make Tom to love Daisy all the time. Daisy's attraction to Tom was only temporary. Tom was still hanging out with his mistress, while Daisy could only keep her boudoir empty. Perhaps lonely or rekindled, gatsby and Daisy quickly returned to their former love. No matter how rich gatsby was now, he seemed to be the poor lieutenant again before Daisy. He denied his previous self, thinking that Daisy would come back to him as soon as he became rich. When Tom satirized that he had never been to Oxford University, he became very emotional. He was afraid that his hidden inferiority would be discovered. Even if gatsby heard the smell of money in Daisy's "I love you", even if the relationship was doomed, he was not willing to believe it.

Of course, the ending is a matter of course. Driven by jealousy, Daisy drives her car to kill Tom's mistress and without hesitation chooses gatsby to take the blame for her. Lured by Tom, gatsby was shot dead by the husband of his mistress.

Floating life like a dream, the vast wealth and prosperity in the end is just an empty. The once-rich man was buried empty except for Nick, who mourned his former friend in the rain.

In this book, the author describes gatsby's wealth with flowery words, and things that are too prosperous will eventually be destroyed. It also symbolizes that the feelings accumulated with money between gatsby and Daisy are broken at the touch.

With skilful brushwork, the author vividly depicts various characters with distinctive characteristics and full personalities. Gatsby is a love supremacist. He will do anything to restore his fragile love. Even though he knows the ending may not be good, he believes that he will succeed. Daisy is a beauty, she seems to be born to enjoy unbridled rights, and this is her final death chains, she can only rely on men to bring her wealth and splendor, in the mansion to be fine feeding canary.

In a materialistic era, but it can always adhere to the oneself once the persistent pursuit, is why gates than great, pure life counter attack and the dream of love, do not show great gatsby, but it was embedded into the story of the historical background, can we really know the beauty of this great.