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he review of <The Great Gatsby>
Gatsby’s life can be summed up in one word—cothurnus.It could be explained from earlier,Gatsby has fallen love in a girl—Daisy who is from a rich family, He felt that his status and position did not match her.So he decided to strive for a career, but when he returned,Daisy had already been married to Tom,while Gatsby still love her.Daisy sees Gatsby again and only regards this feeling as a post-marital stimulus. Once, Daisy accidentally drove her car and killed her husband's mistress. Gatsby took the responsibility on her own initiative, while Daisy's husband Tom provoked her mistress's husband to shoot and kill Gatsby. Gatsby's body lay in the castle, with the exception of his father and friend Karawibe and others. The castle was as dead as dead leaves buried in the earth. Everything in the past was like a mirage.
When reading this book,I kept wondering since Gatsby’s life is a cothurnus,why is the book called the Great Gatsby? What are the great things about Gatsby?
It was not until one day that many netizens left messages that I really understood Gatsby's greatness. The great reason is that the era possessed the scarce character of that era.
In the age of materialism, everyone's desire for profit is fumigated, people become extremely indifferent to each other. Apart from interests, emotions are indifferent.But Gatsby is different from any others,he still have dreams,the hope and passion about future life.besides,what made him greater are a contrast of human indifference, followed by a contrast of retrograde dreams,.he never forgot his original intention,which is the most amazing.
Daisy is also the representative of the degeneration of human nature.She loved Gatsby five years ago just because Gatsby lied the he was rich.After Gatsby left, she immediately found a new home of wealth and power. When Gatsby came back with a lot of money, She was ambiguous with him again. But when he had an accident, she immediately abandoned him and returned to her playful husband. This was also a common phenomenon among American women in those days. They only care about money, not love, measure everything with money. So it is admirable and amazing that people like Gatsby could face their loved ones with Platonic feelings in an era when they were crazy for money and status and abandoned their pure feelings.
The long wait may not be hope, but it may be endless despair. So Gatsby was pitiful when he repeatedly consulted hesitant Daisy in the hope that Daisy would divorce his devoted husband and return to the place they once knew. He can't get any promises from Daisy. He knows that what he once had is fading away from him.
After reading the book, we seem to see that in that cold age, people can not escape the whirlpool after all, when everything returns to calm, as if no one will remember whether it happened or not.
End with a sentence in the book:So we beat on,boats against the current,borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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