THE GREAT GATSBY心得体会英文.docVIP

THE GREAT GATSBY By Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald(1896－1940),the author of The Great Gatsby，was one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. His novel is a vivid reflection of the 1920s American dream shattered, showing the American upper class Wasteland age spiritual face of the Great Depression. He established his position in the history of modern American literature for The Great Gatsby which was written in 1925. The novel, The Great Gatsby is set in modern American society upper middle class in 1920s. 1920s in the history of USA is a short and specific period and known as the American hustle and bustle.In this particular era, the United States created the miracle of the Coolidge boom times”.American hedonism, Spencers theory of evolution and Jamess pragmatism philosophy became very popular in the United States. And the novel The Great Gatsby thus began the story at the acquaintance of Nick and Gatsby in Gatsby’s luxury house. Nick was very interested in Gatsby. After a period of time,he found that theres a deep inside of Gatsby with a girl named Daisy. Young Gatsby as a lieutenant commander was not very rich. He and Daisy fell in love. Then World War I broke out, Gatsby was transferred to Europe. Daisy therefore broke up with him, she turned and came from a wealthy man named Tom. And they married. However, Daisy’s married life was not happy because Tom has a mistress . And Gatsby was in agony, he is convinced that money to let Daisy betrayed him and determined to become a millionaire. A few years later, Gatsby finally succeeded. He wanted to draw Daisys attention, to restore the lost love. Nick was moved by Gatsbys infatuation.He visited Daisy and told her about Gatsbys mind.Then Gatsby and Daisy met finally and Gatsby naively thought Daisy still loved him.However, Daisy had changed a lot.She just treated their relationship as a stimulus. At once, Daisy drive a car, ran over an