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《了不起的盖茨比》英语读后感字篇一
the great gatsby i read, by f. scott fitzgerald, the well-known american writer, was published by foreign language teaching and research press in 2004, with 225 pages.
the book is a novel. it is a story told by nick about a man named gatsby. the author gives the reader a vivid love story with a tragic end. the story can be interpreted many ways. the fall of the american dream is one major theme.
here are the top four characters. gatsby, the protagonist, has an obsessive love with daisy. he struggles for her attention, for her joyance, and most importantly, for her herself. it turns out what he struggles for is only an allusion, a shadow, and a dream, just out reach of his hand. he pays “a high price for living too long with a single dream” (fitzgerald, 200). special attention should be paid to nick, the narrator. he is “one of the few honest people” that we ever known in the novel (fitzgerald, 70). therefore, we can, first of all, trust his narration. as daisy’s cousin and gatsby’s neighbour, he then exists as a connection of the two. another function he plays is that being an observer, he can evaluate and criticize our protagonist objectively. daisy and tom make a perfect couple. daisy, though born a beauty, is sensual and “her voice is full of money” (fitzgerald, 152). then tom, both physically and spiritually, is vulgar. tom and daisy lead a luxurious and profligate life.
the following is the plot of the novel. gatsby and daisy loved each other. however, gatsby was too poor to marry daisy. he went to war in europe. when he came back he found daisy had married tom. he earned substantive money illegally, and came to new york city, and bought a house, and held parties, which were luxurious out of imagination, in order to draw daisy’s attention. finally he knew nick, his neighbour, was daisy’s cousin, and came to him for help. under nick’s arrangement, gatsby met daisy five years after they parted. after tom had learned that there was something between gatsby and daisy, he attacked gatsby that the latter did drugstore business in the face of daisy and nick, and asked daisy back to his arms. later, daisy, driving, killed myrtle, tom’s lover by accident. however, tom told her husband, wilson, that it was gatsby who was myrtle’s lover and killed her. consequently wilson shot gatsby to death and took his own life as well. after gatsby’s depressing funeral, nick decided to go back to the middle west. after all, gatsby, daisy, tom and he himself were all from the middle west.
when the great gatsby was published, t. s. eliot praised it was the first step of american novel had token since henry james. i like this novel, which is not hard to understand but not easy to appreciate. first, it is a novel about dreams. young men, maybe young women as well, without fortune and outlook may lack everything but dreams. yet how their dreams will turn out to be is completely another thing. we notice in chapter 9, gatsby’s schedule, which is marvelously similar to benjamin franklin’s schedule, and then we are reminded of the american dream. that is a dream, as james truslow adams has remarked, “of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” (“what is the american dream” ). the generation of franklin succeeded through their personal struggle. unfortunately, this was never true to men like gatsby, who lived in the 1920s america. gatsby does have ambition, but he is a hero in an improper time where money is the sole criterion of success. fitzgerald links gatsby “with a world that no longer exist, a world that has been lost in back rush of time, a world that offers more in promise than has been realized in fact” (lehan). it is the dream that deceives him into living with sufferings; and it is the dream that even makes him die willingly.
besides the decline of the american dream, another theme of the novel, in my opinion, is that there exists no true love in a world where ruthless materialism prevails. notwithstanding “the love gatsby has for daisy seems to be the only pure impulse in a corrupt world” (lehan), his love has no opportunity to flourish. daisy finally chooses to follow tom, and they escape, “and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (fitzgerald, 222). about love, fitzgerald says through one of his characters, “there are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired” (fitzgerald, 95). the love between nick and baker, if it exists, can support this point as well.
in terms of craftsmanship in american literature, the great gatsby can be said one of the most consummate. it is a work making good use of symbolism. first, the green light at the end of daisy’s dock represents gatsby’s hope and dream for the future. it is yet only an illusory dream which he will never reach. it is not more real than the stars in the sky. second, the valley of ashes symbolizes “the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth” (). third, the eye of doctor t. j. ecklebury’s in a billboard represents “god staring down upon and judging american society as moral wasteland” (). each symbol has more than one interpretation, with which i will not try to bother here.
then the language of the great gatsby deserves to be mentioned. the language is elegant and graceful, and sometimes it could be compared to a poem’s language. in one of gatsby’s grand parties, “people disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away”(fitzgerald, 44). then when daisy was singing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, she brings out “a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again” (fitzgerald, 135). then gatsby “stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air …” (fitzgerald, 191). more examples shall not be quoted. the description of views of the evening and moonlight should be specially noticed.
in relation to our life, how shall we do with our personal dreams? man, as he grows, becomes realistic. this process is like when we put a piece of paper into a glass of water, the paper is gradually soaked and suddenly falls into the bottom. then it is like an artichoke flower, peels off one petal after another, and finally withers. however, without dreams, what can man hold? the pandora’s box opened; everything flew out, leaving only hope at the bottom. hope, thence, stays forever for the despairing people, even when they have nothing else.
finally, the fiction urges me to think about what kind of life we are willing to have? all the four principle characters are from the middle west and come to live in the east. many in china come from the countryside and pursue the urban life. nick never feels he is a part of the east, and if gatsby has felt, he would not be dead. the relation between countryside and urban life deserves reconsidering, especially in the contemporary chinese context.
it is my pleasure to recommend this novel to my friends. another well-known american writer, who was contemporary with fitzgerald, ernest hemmingway’s words are of service, “gatsby was a great book. i’ve read it twice in the last five years. it gets better with each reading” (hemingway, gregory). i would like to read it twice when time is available.
bibliography
fitzgerald, f. scott. the great gatsby. beijing: foreign language teaching and research press, 2004.
hemingway, gregory. “lessons.” english essays 50. ed. tao jie. nanjing: yilin press,2002.354.
lehan, richard. “focus on f. scott. fitzgerald’s the great gatsby.” american dreams, american nightmares. ed. david madden. london and amsterdam: southern illinois university press, 1970.
《了不起的盖茨比》英语读后感字篇二
recently read "the great gatsby, a story of hegemony set up dawn. the north american continent, is hundred years ago, the economic development of the train sped forward; friction machines roar, but also too much to hide a moment of the heart. the book, that history is a little mark.
investigate its likelihood is a person's tragedy, is the tragedy of the society as a whole, may not be important. wine party smallpox, extravagant luxury residence, colorful gorgeous clothes, just for the sake of his heart love daisy. think first, young and beautiful, sketched a period of time; flies away and alternative fate lane person, in the heart of love is someone else's confidante. the deep love, the injury the farthest, cut; not reality, immersed in the beautiful dream, but blurred the forward field of vision. weakness of gunfire, all the dreams and beautiful, vulnerable to burst, scattered in the wind, without trace.
gatsby, his great, because he was the degree of potential energy, but because of his pursuit of the good feelings. he hasn't done anything wrong, but also had to the empty rooms. a dream, how to do, easy, but also how to away, difficult to achieve. in an age of people pursuit of material, to be backed by real emotions. buckish, stained with money, odour, lost a condition is a pure heart. leave a piece of pure land, at that time, doomed to oblivion the audacity of commitments.
finally wrote: "we continue to strive to move forward, stream, after being constantly push, until the return to the days of the old one."
heart can not help a chu. accustomed to another potential, accustomed to the intrigue, people, really happy? blundering world, difficult times, disguise the buddhism, purports to recall the mood like that is like water. this, is the only thing we can do?
"day after day, excitement consumed by gradually." reality, kill too much like real unreal image. those beautiful like a castle in the air, and hollow crowd away already. in between dreams and reality, we go from here?
gatsby is the choice of the former. even if the cruel reality, fate, his image is still great; pure love is hard to stop, right and wrong about his, also make them in a glorious situation across the sphere of a bygone era. quietly away, few people look at the light. through one hundred, is the ray of light, to the left a dark era deserves stay have story.
even if you, in the reality, still mark a dream back without regrets. that is worth pity era, these moving words, bring us infinite daydream.
《了不起的盖茨比》英语读后感字篇三
there is a dream,rooted deeply in every american,from the very beginning of themayflower,that the great grandfathers of all americans had been contemplatingand seeking,and of all americans that has been written in the second sentence of theunited states declaration of independence which states that "all men are created equal" and that they are "endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights" including "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."the american dream , is a belief that as long as the united states after a hard struggle will be able to achieve the ideal of a better life, that is, people have to work through their own hard work, courage, creativity and determination to move towards prosperity,rather than rely on specific social classes and other assistance. this is usually on behalf of the people in the economic success or entrepreneurial spirit.
yet, the dream has already became a nightmare,that in the money-orienting,power-persuing minds springing up since the industry revolution,americans have fallen in,not only the way of life through which americans rifling for more luxurious enjoyment, but the morality of heart that they persued prosperity with all costs of which they were oblivious.
luckly,we had people who saw the reality much more clearly than the blind masses,while those were considered critics of pointed out that many versions of the dream equate prosperity with happiness, and that happiness may not always be that simple. these critics suggest that the american dream may always remain tantalizingly out of reach for some americans, making it more like a cruel joke than a genuine dream. fitzgerald was one of them who went the first step that american fiction has taken since henry james, because he depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene（）。
it was five years that fitzgerald foreseen the latent fatal cancer of capitalism of american. the great gatsby soon came into being,in which first half is comedy,second half is the third--person view,nike, who learns that his next-door neighbor, who throws lavish parties hosting hundreds of people, is the wealthy, mysterious jay the key charactor ,gatsby, had fallen in love with daisy in 1917 as an army lieutenant stationed near daisy's hometown, louisville. after the war, gatsby came east and bought his mansion near daisy and tom, where he hosts parties hoping she will then gatsby was a man of integrity and honor,who received great respect form the society to his wealth and after his death,he was merely remembered,forgottern in the flew of time and lust. these parties were fashionable, but pointless. it was only a show-off of gatsby’s riches and material success. the crowds hardly knew their host; many came and went without invitation. the music, the laughter and the faces, all blurred as one confused mass, showed the purposelessness and the loneliness of the party-goers beneath their marks of relaxation and joviality. all this was typical of “the jazz age”， when many people lost belief in american dream and indulge themselves in drinking and dancing. the great expectations which the first settlement of the american continent brings vanish, and so despair and doom set his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars…on week-ends his rolls-royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. and on mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.
“every friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in new york----every monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” （chapter 3, 52）
the exavagent life, the noisy people constitute gatsby’s parties. however, the depiction of the fashionable and meaningless parties served to highlight gatsby’s tragedy by contrasting the grandeur of his party with his violent death, with the frustration of his dream. gatsby’s funeral was rather deserted and cheerless compared with his parties. it’s a record of human coldness. nick had invited some people to come to gatsby’s funeral. these people were all gatsby’s so-called friends. they found a lot of excuses for their absence because they knew clearly that gatsby was no longer useful for them. gatsby’s generous parties had not brought him even one friend. what’s more, daisy, once gatsby’s lover, the real killer, “hadn’t sent a message or a flower”。（chapter 9, 233）the sharp contrast between the exavagence of the parties and the coldness of the funeral revealed the hypocritical relationship among people and the moral degradation of the jazz age.
gatsby, though his wealth came from his criminal activities,was the typical symbol of american dream in that time,and the whole-hearted dedication of gatsby and his sincere belief in what he did made him heroic, and this submerged the unpleasant details so that they did not seem important in the final outcome,as has the american dreammer who were so stubborn to believe perspirition would bring what they want.
the real killer who murderred gatsby was the society,in which people could become rich overnight by non-moral means.a poor beautiful girl could marry a wealthy boy who may not be handsome for the purpose of being rich,and a young man could find a job in which he would do nothing but be gatsby, the true heir to the american dream,was killed by conspiracy of his lover daisy ,who was actually stimulated by the vanity fair, and lived in luxury at the cost of gatsby, to whom without mercy. the cruel reality smashed gatsby’s dream. fitzgerald’s comment on the failure of gatsby’s dream was also a statement on the failure of american dream. the contrast of the dream and the reality significantly indicated a moving away from faith and hope in a world where material interests had driven out sentimentality and faith. what is more, dream, even if it persists, is utterly helpless and defenseless against a material society. it can only be defeated. gatsby was an example. owing to his unrealistic dream, gatsby’s fate turned out to be a tragedy. because he was not conscious of his unrealistic dream of love and he did not correctly handle contradictions between ideal and reality, gatsby sunk into this kind of unreal dream so deeply that he can’t wake up. and the final result of gatsby was surely miserable.
the great gatsby is fitzgerald’s finest novel. “sensitive and symbolic treatment of themes of contemporary life related with irony and pathos to the legendry of the american dream.” ——【the oxford companion to american literature】
the sharp contrast between dream and reality not only explains gatsby’s failure at the end, it also explains the meaninglessness of that age. in a word, these contrasts provide the readers with a panorama of 1920s. and in the contrast, the theme of the novel ----the disillusion of the american dream ----is strengthened. in the mean time,the loss of the american dream reflects the corruption of people’s morality.