Thoughts of “the Great Gatsby”

"The Great Gatsby" was written by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, who was born in Sao Paulo, Minnesota in America.

Published in nineteen twenty-five, "The Great Gatsby" was set in the nineteen twenties in New York City and on Long Island. It was regarded as the symbol of "Jazz Age" of American literature and it is now considered as one of the greatest modern American novels.

The novel is started by Nick’s statement. Nick, who was regarded as Gatsby’s only confidant and was the witness to the glitz that ultimately reflects emptiness and selfishness in the American society, but not success .

According to Nick, we can gradually know the venation of the story between Gatsby and Daisy. Gatsby was born in penury, however, he was ambitious and later became rich because of bootlegging. Virtually, the reason why Gatsby had been dying for fortune and power was Daisy’s betrayal. And Daisy, who was Gatsby’s lover when Gatsby served with the colours. Obviously, Daisy impressed herself into Gatsby’s heart during that time. But then Daisy put away Gatsby heartless and married Tom, who was a fairly rich man at that time. However, Gatsby could no forget Daisy all the time, and it had become Gatsby’s dream that he believed he can draw Daisy’s heart back if he can possess a huge amount of money. With the help of Nick, Gatsby and Daisy have a reunion.

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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is written by F.Scott Fitzgerald who is the most

important representative figure of the "Jazz Age" in 20th century. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in1896 and died in Hollywood in 1940, and grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. He and other famous writers ,including Hemingway、William Faulkner and some other figures who had experienced the cruelty of WWI and had similar bewilderment and disappointment toward the world , are belongs to The Lost Generation . Apart from The Great Gatsby, he published several other renowned novels, such as Tender is the Night, Paradise and so on. The detailed information of this novel are as follows.

The novel is told us the story of Gatsby by Nick’s tone. Nick came to New York from his hometown the America Middle West, and he rent a small house nearby Gatsby’s luxurious mansion where hold a grand banquet every night. Nick had an great interest to Gatsby and then he found out that there was a lost love in Gatsby’s deep heart. Gatsby and Daisy loved each other when Gatsby was young, but because of Gatsby’s poor family they were broken up. Then G. joined the First World War. While Daisy was married to Tom who was an affluent, but her marriage was not happy because Tom had a mistress. Therefore, the material couldn’t satisfy her spiritual empty. After he knew this, he hold grand banquets every night and tried to attract Daisy to come to him. Eventually, she became his lover and he indulged in the comforts of life without noticing

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《伟大的盖茨比》

他以为黛西还是爱着他的黛西，他以为赢得黛西便是完成了自己的梦想，那个关于财富、名望的梦想，却不知黛西已是被金钱腐蚀的笼中鸟，不知自己正踏上死亡的不归路……

小说以第三者尼克的视角解读了盖茨比的伟大：悬置评判以便看清多姿多彩的伟大。与愚蠢粗俗的花花公子汤姆、看似优雅迷人实则自私冷酷的贵妇黛西相比更形纯粹。小说的背景设在二十年代初，那是一个繁华却也空虚的时代。这篇小说的亮点首推盖茨比的奋斗史：出生贫困却不甘于平凡，偶救一富翁接近上流社会，当上军官爱上富家小姐黛西后，用五年使自己富可敌国。其次是情深不寿：第一次，他要求黛西等他，黛西为了现实的生活嫁给了汤姆，第二次，五年后，他费尽心思想和黛西在一起，却在汤姆告诉她盖茨比只是个暴发户时出走，开车失手撞死了汤姆情妇，后又在汤姆污蔑盖茨比是杀人犯时选择沉默，导致盖茨比被汤姆情妇的丈夫枪杀。

我们能为自己的梦想坚持多久尤其这个梦想对于我们来说遥不可及？盖茨比坚持着自己的梦想直到死去的那一刻。黛西是盖茨比所要追寻一切的化身。她身上集中了一切金钱和财富所带来的美好的东西:房子、教养、美貌、爱情。而盖茨比除了坚持梦想体现其伟大，更有对爱情忠贞不渝所体现的伟大。这些都是值得我们学习的，另外，中英文双语阅读对我们的翻译非常有利，书适用于英语教育、学前教育（双语教育方向）。

这本中英文的小说让我们从这个爱情悲剧里更切近那个时代，繁

华包裹内里的寂寞，由繁华到萧瑟，是失落的美国梦。

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The Reading Response

In Eng-3U, I'm glad that I have read two good books,which are <<The Great Gatsby >> and <<Macbeth>>. I have learned some principles from both two books. These two books have many similarities more than the differences betwween them. So i prefer to talk about my views about the similarities in the two books.

Ambitions, Gatsby had made a plan for his daily life when he was very young, from this plan we can see Gasby is an ambitious boy at the time. Gatsby made a great successful in the war, he became a rich man, now his ambition is to repeat the past, he wants to find back his first love and only lover---Daisy. But Daisy thought that "Rich girl does not marry with poor boy", so Daisy changed, she wants own rich Gatsby and rich Tom at the same time. What a ridiculous women, what a corruption society. Macbeth is a brave hero, the three witches' prenotions make Macbeth awares his

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Every American has a dream in their deep heart, it is American Dream. It’s a dream that they believe they will be able to achieve the ideal of a better life if they work through their own hard work, courage, creativity and determination during a hard struggle, rather than rely on specific social classes and other assistance.

Some brilliant people who saw the reality much more clearly had pointed out that the American Dream may not always be simple and it may always remain tantalizingly out of reach for some Americans, make it more like a cruel joke than a genuine dream. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is one of those brilliant people, he wrote The Great Gatsby to describe the cruel reality of the 20th century.

The key character, Gatsby, had fallen in love with Daisy in 1917 as an Army Lieutenant stationed near Daisy’s hometown, Louisville. At that time, he was very poor , he came back after the war and made a lot of money from illegal activities. Gatsby bought his mansion near Daisy and Tom, where he hosted parties everyday hoping she would visit. During the parties, the crows hardly knew their host, even many came and went

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我们身处其中的宇宙，生机勃勃，奥妙无穷。人类对宇宙的不懈探索已经经历了漫长的过程。宇宙是什么？人与宇宙有什么关系？这是人类不能不回答的问题。

《宇宙与人》这部影片汲取了现代天文学、物理学、生物学、地质学、人类学和生命科学等诸多学科的最新研究成果，运用了大量科学数据、图像和实例，揭示了宇宙奥秘的真相，解答着一个个令人类曾经迷惘的问题。让我深刻领悟到了生命和人的自然本质。 在这部影片里，我们不仅能更仔细、更清晰、更完整地去观察这个创造了人类的物质系统，而且还能弄清楚这个物质系统是怎样操作的。这部影片中，我们可以看到人类是如何被创造出来的，可以了解这浩然的宇宙有着多少我们所不知道的神秘色彩。以前总是很疑惑，为什么人类的产生会与马克思的唯物精神有关系，可是在这部影片中，我们可以发现，人类的诞生是物质一点一滴的积累，通过一次又一次的量变从而形成的质变过程，一次次的进化，都为我们展现了唯物主义中，物质第一性的观点。从没有生命到产生地球这个生命星球，再到诞生了生物，诞生了人，上百亿年的宇宙物质运动的种种细节都被前所未有地"缝合"起来，并且始终追究着人类的存在和这些物质运动之间的千丝万缕的头绪。我们不难发现，事物都是联系的，这个世界上并没有一个可以单独存在的个体，事物之间都存在着不可分割的联系。一点一点的量变的积累，一次一次质变的飞跃，才造就了我们人类如此辉煌的今天。

至此，我由衷的相信马克思的那句话"世界上没有不可认识的事物，只有尚未被认识的事物"。实践是认识的基础。鉴于这些事实，我们坚信世界是可以被认识的。剩下的只是时间早晚的事。

然而，这并不能让我产生“人类是万物之灵”这样的观点。虽然人类拥有智慧，拥有思维，但这也无法改变人类不过是庞大生物链中的一个环节这一事实。茫茫宇宙中，人类是渺小的，就连地球也不过是宇宙中的一粒沙！滥用上天赋予人类的智慧去破坏生态，最终将遭到我们所在的宇宙无情的报复！

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传奇的历史，伟大的博弈――《伟大的博弈》读后感

“尽管有数不清的海滩，人类依然扬帆出海，同样的道理，尽管有无数次的股灾，人们依然会进入这个市场，辛勤的买低卖高，怀着对美好未来的憧憬，将手里的资金投入到股市，去参与这场伟大的博弈”，美国财经作家约翰．S．戈登在他的名作《伟大的博弈》中深怀感情的写道。单纯从科学的角度讲，“博弈”是一门在常人看来神奇而枯燥的学问，而在社会领域，尤其在政治经济领域它又更多的象征着不同利益集团的相互妥协与尔虞我诈，是个并不那么“光彩”的词语。但是戈登先生却在“博弈”二字前加上了Great这个词语，“伟大”这一充满了光辉意义的词语能与在市井中传言的充满了血腥与丑恶的金融领域相匹配吗？《伟大的博弈》这本书正是试图向读者阐述这个问题，即在华尔街成长的350年里，在这条街上发生了许多具有传奇色彩的故事，其中有丑陋，有高尚，有辛酸，有光荣，但是在这个“伟大的博弈”的过程中，华尔街逐渐成为世界金融的中心，成为了一段世界金融史上的不朽传奇。

传奇总是伴随着丑陋，因为真是丑陋使得那些光荣显得光彩夺目。这本书以并不长的篇幅讲述了华尔街350年的历史，在书中，我认识了华尔街历史上那些传奇响亮的名字：汉密尔顿，杜尔，德鲁，范德比尔特，摩根．．．．．．这本书的一大特点就是在描写华尔街的各个时期时，都会抽取这个时期代表性的人物来描述。可以说，华尔街的历史正是这些人的历史，他们不是每个人都堪称伟大，他们更多的都是追逐利益的商人，但是由于追逐手段的不同，是他们有的人像人间的魔鬼，有的人像地狱的魔鬼，是的，似乎除了汉密尔顿之外，在华尔街没有天使可言，即使是享有盛誉的摩根也是如此。对于金融家，人们一向不吝惜的以贪婪，冷酷这些充满了“邪性”的词语来形容，但是同时人们也对他们在这个过程中展现出来的手腕与智慧而惊叹。这是怎样的一群人，他们能在几个月内暴富，同时也能在几周内一贫如洗，他们的荣辱兴衰甚至可以影响无数普通人的命运，可以决定一个国家，甚至世界范围的格局。当然，组成华尔街历史的更多是那些游戏的普通参与者，他们往往无力觉得自己财富的命运，只能选择跟随或是离弃哪个金融家，他们的命运是被主宰的，他们经常成为大玩家手上的筹码和棋子，可能在一夜之间获得梦想中的财富，但是那些纸上富贵也可能在一夜之间付诸东流。但是这些普通人的合力却又成了主宰那些大玩家们的力量，只有他们的跟随才能让那些所谓的巨头们可以放手在一场大游戏中尽情创造真实或是虚妄的金钱，而他们的离弃也能是巨头们转眼间成为无助的可怜虫，在这个胜者为王的功利市场上无人问津。这也是华尔街的博弈，一种充满了血泪和梦想的博弈。

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