篇一 :The_Great_Gatsby_英文读后感

Book Report of The Great Gatsby

1. About the author.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota of mixed Southern and Irish descent. He was given three names after the writer of The Star Spangled Banner, to whom he was distantly related. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, was a salesman, a Southern gentleman, whose furniture business had failed. His greater impact to him was “even if your business has failed,we have to maintain the habit of generous style”. Mary McQuillan, his mother, was the daughter of a successful wholesale grocer, and devoted to her only son. Fitzgerald entered Princeton University in 1913, where he spent most of his time doing social activities. He left his studies in 1917 because of his poor academic records, and took up a commission in the US Army. His experiences during World War I were more peaceful than Hemingway's - he never saw action and even did not go to France. The turning point in his life was when he met Zelda Sayre while he was at one of the bases where he trained in 1918, herself as the daughter of a justice from Alabama Supreme Court and an aspiring writer. He proposed to her but failed as she thought he was just a poor boy. In 1920 appeared Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise. The book gained a success which Fitzgerald celebrated energetically in parties and married Zelda successfully. Zelda danced on people's dinner tables in endless parties to celebrate the immediate success. But that was not to be the ending for the Fitzgerald. They lived in New York City. He drank too much. She spent too much money. He promised himself to live a less costly life. Always, however, he spent more than he earned from writing. In 1925, Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, considered great work. Although it initially met with little commercial success, this novel about the American dream of material success has become one of the most popular widely read and critically acclaimed works of fiction in American literature. The life of the title character, Jay Gatsby, has been compared to Fitzgerald’s life. While living in the French Riviera, Zelda’s illness became serious. She suddenly began to practice ballet, dancing night and day. After a second nervous breakdown, she was hospitalized for mental illness in Carolina. During the last years of his life, Fitzgerald lived in Hollywood, earning his living as a screenwriter. He died of heart attack at the age of 45. In 1948, the hospital at which Zelda was a patient caught fire, causing her death.

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篇二 :The Great Gatsby 的读后感

Book report----The Great Gatsby

I choose ‘The Great Gatsby’, which was written by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, was the representative ofThe Lost Generation, lived injazz age. The novel described for the 20's through the perfect artistic form to sell "the American dream" which liquor nouveau riche Gates compared pursues vanishing, has shown the American society's tragedy.

The reason for me to choose this book is simple. Because my SAT teacher told me that SAT reading tests like to cite paragraphs in this book. Then, after reading this book, I think I have gotten some sense about the morality of American society at that time. Plot, characters, setting The story begins with the narrator, Nick Carraway, whose house next to the mansion of his friend called Gatsby. Daisy is Nick's second cousin, Gatsby’s first girlfriend. Gatsby and Daisy had loved each other five years ago, Gatsby used to very poor and then sent overseas by the army. Daisy gave up waiting for him and married a man called Tom. After the War, Gatsby

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篇三 :The Great Gatsby读后感

Throughout the whole story, the green light had been used in three places. In chapter 1, the presence of green light catch my eyes. ―But I didn’t call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone—he stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way‖, I was curious about the darkness where Gatsby would like to drunk in and where the impetus was from. As I referred to the sentence which was followed ―I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock‖ , I believed that green light implied his hope and even his dream for the future. Gatsby was dying for the green light. He knew the way before him would be hard and maybe lonely, but he still stretched out him arms toward the unknown way. Obviously, he didn’t know what specific things he would meet with on his way, but he was determined to chase for his dream. And I guessed the impetus was from Daisy. The fact that Daisy left him and chose Tom made him believe the only way to get Daisy’ love was—be a rich man like Tom. And at that time , it was hopeful with his confidence.

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篇四 :The Great Gatsby 读后感

My Independent Reading of the Great Gatsby

I think Gatsby is a weird person. I have already read the first two chapters, and I remember most is the sentence that said by Nick's father 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.' But I don't understand why the author put this sentence at the beginning of the whole book. Does the author want to express that Gatsby has some advantages that we don't have? Actually, I don't think Gatsby has benefits. Although he is wealthy, he is an extravagant man. He spent money just like water. Everyone can join his party without an invitation. Also Gatsby is a mysterious person. The bartender said no one has seen Gatsby. People in his party guessed about his real identity. And the rumors make Gatsby become a horrible and unsearchable person. To be honest, I don't like Gatsby. Nonetheless, I will keep looking at the book.

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篇五 :The great gatsby 读后感

After reading The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald Scott Fitzgerald was the leader of the Jazz age and one of the best America writers of the 20th century. He attended Princeton University, while left in 1917 and enlisted in the army. In an army camp he met Zelda Sayre and fell in love with her who became the model for most the pretty heroines of his later fiction. In 1921, Fitzgerald and Zelda were married and settled on Long Island and led an extravagant life. In 1925, he published his third novel The Great Gatsby, a masterpiece related with irony and disillusionment of American Dream.

The story is told in the first person by Nick Carraway, a quiet young Midwesterner. In1922, Nick leaves home to do business in New York City. He rents a small house in West Egg and next door to his house is the enormous house of Mr. Gatsby. One evening, Nick dines with a distant cousin, Daisy and gets to know her husband Tom and Jordan Baker, an attractive young golfer.

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篇六 :the great Gatsby读后感

Reading report Date: 2010/11/27 Chapter 6 mainly talks about the big party.

All summer Gatsby’s fame was increasing and many people talked different stories about his past. I didn’t learn his true stories until he told them personally. Then I knew his real name was James Gatz. Born in a poor family in North Dakoia, Gatz dreamt an amazing and beautiful world and worked to change himself into Jay Gatsby.

Gatz’s new life began when he saw a huge boat out on Lake Superior. The owner was Dan Cody, an old and rich person. Many women including Ella Kaye tried to married him for money. Gatz borrowed a boat and to tell the man a strong wind might come. Then they talked. Cody finally hired Gatsby as his secretary traveling around the world. A week later, Cody died. Ella Kaye took all of his money.

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篇七 :The Great Gatsby英文读后感

The Great Gatsby

In my opinion, the novel described for the 20's through the perfect artistic form to sell "the American dream" which liquor nouveau riche Gates compared pursues vanishing, has promulgated the American society's tragedy.

As we all know ,Gates and bids good-bye compared to and the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red love originally is the very ordinary love story. But the author makes a masterly opening move, compared to the girl which is in love treats as Gates the youth, the money and the status symbol, treats as the method pursue wealthy material life "the American dream". Gates compares in order to pursue the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red to exhaust own sentiment and the ability and wisdom, finally ruined own life. He naively thought that, Had the money to be able to revive an old dream, redeems the love which lost. He was what a pity wrong. He looked at mistakenly black eyebrow coloring alizarin red this vulgar superficial woman. He lives in the illusion, is gotten rid by the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red, is desolate for the society, finally has cast the tragedy which is unable to recall.

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篇八 :读后感(英文)The Great Gatsby

Money Is The Root of All Devils

The Great Gatsby, which written by F .Scott. Fitzgerald, tells a love tragedy between Gatsby and Daisy in the 1920s in America. They loved each other at first, but Daisy was reluctant to marry him simply because he was poor. She married a rich man, Tom, who had a mistress. However,Gatsby could never forget Daisy , he had been fighting for money even by making illegal deals. When he became rich and has his own regal mansion, he met Daisy again and asked her to be with him. Clinging to Tom’s social status and luxury life, Daisy refused. One day, Tom’s mistress was killed by Daisy when she was driving home in Gatsby’s car. In order to protect Daisy, Gatsby was going to undertake the accident. Unfortunately, Tom killed him indirectly by telling Mr. Wilson (the husband of Tom’s mistress) that the car which killed his wife was Gatsby’s. Finally, Gatsby was killed by Mr. Wilson.

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