了不起的蓋茨比英語閱讀報告

1. 了不起的蓋茨比英語讀後感

了不起的蓋茨比
小說通過完美的藝術形式描寫了20年代販酒暴發戶蓋茨比所追求的「美國夢」的幻
滅，揭示了美國社會的悲劇。
蓋茨比與黛茜的戀愛和分手本來是個很普通的愛情故事。但作者出手不凡，把蓋茨
比熱戀的姑娘當作青春、金錢和地位的象徵，當作*手段追求富裕物質生活的「美國
夢」。蓋茨比為了追求黛茜耗盡了自己的感情和才智，最後葬送掉自己的生命。他天真
地以為：有了金錢就能重溫舊夢，贖回失去的愛情。可惜，他錯了。他看錯了黛茜這個
粗俗淺薄的女人。他看錯了表面上燈紅酒綠而精神上空虛無聊的社會。他生活在夢幻之
中，被黛茜拋棄，為社會冷落，終於鑄成了無法挽回的悲劇。
蓋茨比是20年代典型的美國青年。他的遭遇正是歡歌笑舞的「爵士時代」的寫照。
作者為小說設計了一個「雙重主人公」尼克·卡羅威。他的重要性在許多方面不亞
於主人公蓋茨比。他既是故事的敘述者和評論者，又是小說中一個重要人物。他與矛盾
著的雙方都有千絲萬縷的關系。他是蓋茨比的鄰居和朋友，又是黛茜的表哥、湯姆的同
學，還熱戀著黛茜的好友喬丹。他充當了蓋茨比和黛茜分別5年後重新見面的牽線人，
又成為蓋茨比重溫舊夢的批評者和他慘遭殺害的同情者。他雖然躋身於長島豪華的住宅
區，但他既不是湯姆所代表的「荒原時代」的精神世界的公民，也不是蓋茨比所代表的
盲目崇拜黛茜的脫離現實的夢幻世界的同路人。他代表美國中西部的傳統觀念和道德准
則。他對於蓋茨比追求失去的幸福的夢幻有許多中肯的批評，對於講究外表而內心卑俗
的湯姆和黛茜則進行了公正的鞭撻。蓋茨比死後，昔日的賓客一個也不露面，黛茜則陪
丈夫遠遠離去，尼克一針見血地指出了社會的虛偽和無情，使讀者對於蓋茨比所追求的
美國夢的必然破滅有了深刻的印象。
小說採用第一人稱的敘事手法，彷彿書中發生的一切都是尼克的親身見聞，不加虛
飾，令人感到親切可信。尼克和蓋茨比兩人從陌生到認識，感情上既有距離，又有融和，
富有多種層次的結合和區別，寫得脈絡清晰，恰到好處。這種把不同的觀點巧妙地統一
在一部小說中，使作品具有深刻的內涵和嚴密的結構，正是作者獨特的藝術成就。
作者在敘述中還運用了許多豐富生動的比喻，使人物的感情起伏和場景的變換增添
了抒情的色彩。精採的比喻常常被用來渲染夢幻的氣氛，表達精神的空虛。如尼克初次
到湯姆家，看到黛茜和她女友貝克坐在沙發上「活像浮在一個停泊在地面上空的大氣
球」，後來才「慢慢地降落地面」。蓋茨比在家裡第一次與黛茜重逢時伸手去抓她的手，
以一種創造性的熱情投入了他的夢幻。「不斷添枝加葉，用飄來的每一根絢麗的羽毛加
以綴飾」。這些夢幻是「牢牢地建立在仙女的翅膀上的」。內涵深刻的比喻把蓋茨比對
「美國夢」的追求描繪得維妙維肖，躍然紙上。
小說還運用了象徵的手法來揭示人物內心的活動與環境的冷酷。比如：西卵碼頭盡
頭有一盞綠燈，蓋茨比常常在晚上孤獨地望著它，伸開雙手想去擁抱它——那青春和愛
情的象徵，彷彿是黛茜的化身。小說末了，尼克又想起了蓋茨比信奉這盞綠燈，似乎近
在眼前，他幾乎不可能抓不住，實際上卻可望而不可即，他的夢想已經遠遠逝去了。又
如書中六次出現的「埃克爾堡大夫的眼睛」是藍色的，「若有所思，陰郁地俯視這片陰
沉沉的灰堆」。它象徵不幸和災難。在情節發展的關鍵之處，這雙眼睛好像復活了，它
彷彿看著蓋茨比去跟湯姆攤牌，又預見到威爾遜要去殺死蓋茨比。渾身銅臭的黛茜愛穿
白色的上衣和裙子，宛如純潔可愛的天使，其實她的靈魂污點斑斑。這象徵純潔的白色
像一面潔白的鏡子，把她的靈魂深處暴露無余。蓋茨比重溫舊夢的幻想一去不復返了。
作者用五光十色的音符譜出了一曲凄悵的悲歌，給人留下無限的思索。

The Great Gatsby
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. 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 looked at mistakenly on the surface the debauchery but the spiritual sky empty bored society. 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. The Gates ratio is the 20's models American youth. His bitter experience is precisely the happy song smiles the dance "knight the time" the portrayal. The author has designed for the novel "the al leading character" Nick the Carrow prestige. His importance is not inferior to the leading character Gates ratio in many aspects. He not only is the story narration and commentary, also is in the novel a important personage. He both is having the very complicated relations with contradictory both sides. He is Gates compared to neighbor and friend, also is the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red cousin, Tom's schoolmate, but also is being in love black eyebrow coloring alizarin red good friend Jordan. He acted as Gates to compare after the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red distinguishes the go-between which 5 years remet, the sympathy which also became which the Gates ratio to revive an old dream the criticism and he suffers kills. He although advances into to the Long Island luxurious residential district, but he already is not "wilderness time" which Tom represents inner world citizen, also is not worships blindly the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red which Gates compares represents to be separated from the reality the illusion world fellow traveller. He represents the American mid-west the traditional ideas and the moral criterion. He happiness illusion which loses compared to the pursue has many critical criticisms regarding Gates, regarding was fastidious the semblance but innermost feelings vulgar Tom and the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red has carried on fair whipping. After Gates compared to dies, former days guest did not make an appearance, the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red accompanied the husband to depart by far, Nick pertinent had pointed out society's false and the heartlessness, caused the reader compared to the American dream necessity which pursued to be disillusioned regarding Gates had the profound impression.

2. 了不起的蓋茨比英語觀後感150字，最好帶漢語翻譯。謝謝！

We Die for Our Dreams
——Comments on The Great Gatsby
It was in a book of Murakami Haruki that I knew The Great Gatsby for the first time. He said that The Great Gatsby was a fantastic fiction so that I immediately developed a strong interest in it. At that time I wondered that what masterpiece would be worth such compliments from an excellent writer like Murakami Haruki. It must be more than a masterpiece.
I read The Great Gatsby several years ago when I was in senior high school. Actually I was reading it for fun, the reason of which is obvious that under the great pressure of schoolwork I wouldn』t spare one more hour to receive another boring sermon from anybody. However, I found it wasn』t that attractive as I imaged so I quitted reading it after getting the superficial main idea of it. Gatsby was decisive and stupid; his dream lover Daisy was vulgar and ruthless; Daisy』s husband, accordingly, was a total jerk. There are neither admirable characters nor exciting plot at all. It was definitely a masterpiece but wasn』t my cup of tea. As time passed by, I realized that even the same person tended to develop an extremely different opinion towards the very book. Now I read it all over again and I found something deep and thought-provoking about it.
Gatsby was described as an arrogant and tasteless businessman who was quite wealthy. He held parties almost every night to gather those so-called rich and genteel people. However, his real purpose was to meet his first lover—Daisy who had already married another rich and famed man. As he wished, he got to meet Daisy and found that she was still in love with him. But he didn』t realize that Daisy wasn』t what she used to be. She was no longer that innocent girl who waited for her lover, full of joy and wishes. In the end, Gatsby died for Daisy, the woman he had loved for lifetime. With little guilt or sorrow, Daisy quickly got rid of the whole mess and moved on smoothly as if nothing has happened, as if there has never been such a man named Gatsby who was in deep love with her and died for her. Gatsby』s love story was filled with cheat and cupidity. The statement that Gatsby and Daisy were in love with each other was merely a misconception. Or rather, they used to be in love for a short period but in the end, time changed everything and true love turned out an absurd lie.
From another perspective, neither of them is to blame in this tragedy named love. Daisy was a typical woman of that time, who had pretty face as well as empty brain, married a rich man, spent their life going for various parties and immoderate shopping, and turned a blind eye to their husbands』 stuff. They had original pureness and rosy dreams which finally were eroded by the onrush of depraved age. And Gatsby was just a man who was still stuck in previously romance and tried his best to earn back his lover. He was oriented, diligent and sometimes kind-hearted. He had the courage to chase his dream while most people didn』t, though his attempt ended up nothing.
Somebody said that be prepared for the nothing stuff and nowhere land, and keep walking with dreams. Maybe this makes sense to some extent. Even if we can predict the end in the very beginning, we will still orient ourselves in the thick fog and move ahead until death.

我們的夢想
——閱了不起的蓋茨比的感想
這是一本村上的小說，我知道蓋茨比首次。他說，偉大的蓋茨比是一個幻想小說，我立即產生了強烈的興趣。當時我不知道，什麼都值得像村上傑作從村上一個優秀的作家這樣的贊美。它必須比一部傑作。
我讀過偉大的蓋茨比幾年前我在高中時。其實我讀它的樂趣，其原因是顯而易見的，偉大的功課壓力我不會赦免一個小時從任何人接受另一個枯燥的說教下。然而，我發現這不是我想像的那麼吸引我離開了閱讀它得到它的表面的主要想法後。蓋茨比是決定性的和愚蠢的；他的夢中情人黛西是庸俗的和無情的；黛西的丈夫，因此，是一個十足的混蛋。沒有令人欽佩的人物也不精彩的情節都。這絕對是一個傑作，但不是我的那杯茶。隨著時間的流逝，我意識到，即使是同一個人傾向於開發一個非常不同的看法非常的書。現在我讀一遍，我發現很有深度，耐人尋味的呢。
蓋茨比被形容為一個驕傲無味的商人很富有。他認為雙方幾乎每天晚上收集那些所謂的富人和有教養的人。然而，他的真正目的是為了滿足他的初戀情人黛西已經娶了另一個富有和著名的人。他希望，他見到了黛西發現她仍然愛他。但他沒有意識到黛西不是她以前的樣子。她不再是那個天真的女孩，等待她的愛人，充滿歡樂和祝福。最後，蓋茨比死了黛西，他愛的女人的一生。有點內疚或悲傷，黛西很快擺脫整個混亂和順利進行，好像什麼事也沒有發生移動，好像從來沒有過這樣的一個姓蓋茨比的人誰是在深深的愛著她，為她而死。蓋茨比的愛情故事，充滿了欺騙和貪婪。聲明說，蓋茨比與黛西相戀只是一種誤解。或者說，他們使用的是愛很短但最終，時間改變了一切，愛真的變成了一個荒謬的謊言。
從另一個角度來看，他們都不是在這場悲劇中命名的愛怨。黛西是那時的一個典型的女人，她美麗的臉以及腦空，嫁給了一個有錢人，花費他們的生活去各種聚會和無節制購物，而無視他們的丈夫的東西。他們原來的純凈和玫瑰，最後終於被墮落的時代洪流沖刷的夢想。蓋茨比是一個人還停留在以前的浪漫和盡力賺回自己的愛人。他是定向的，勤奮和善良有時候。他有勇氣追逐自己的夢想的同時，大多數人沒有，盡管他試圖結束了沒有。
有人說，准備好沒有的東西，沒有土地，並繼續行走的夢想。這也許不無道理。即使我們可以預測在非常開始的結束，我們仍會使自己在濃霧和前進直到死亡。

3. 求了不起的蓋茨比英文讀後感~

The Great Gatsby

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. 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 looked at mistakenly on the surface the debauchery but the spiritual sky empty bored society. 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. The Gates ratio is the 20's models American youth. His bitter experience is precisely the happy song smiles the dance "knight the time" the portrayal. The author has designed for the novel "the al leading character" Nick the Carrow prestige. His importance is not inferior to the leading character Gates ratio in many aspects. He not only is the story narration and commentary, also is in the novel a important personage. He both is having the very complicated relations with contradictory both sides. He is Gates compared to neighbor and friend, also is the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red cousin, Tom's schoolmate, but also is being in love black eyebrow coloring alizarin red good friend Jordan. He acted as Gates to compare after the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red distinguishes the go-between which 5 years remet, the sympathy which also became which the Gates ratio to revive an old dream the criticism and he suffers kills. He although advances into to the Long Island luxurious residential district, but he already is not "wilderness time" which Tom represents inner world citizen, also is not worships blindly the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red which Gates compares represents to be separated from the reality the illusion world fellow traveller. He represents the American mid-west the traditional ideas and the moral criterion. He happiness illusion which loses compared to the pursue has many critical criticisms regarding Gates, regarding was fastidious the semblance but innermost feelings vulgar Tom and the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red has carried on fair whipping. After Gates compared to dies, former days guest did not make an appearance, the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red accompanied the husband to depart by far, Nick pertinent had pointed out society's false and the heartlessness, caused the reader compared to the American dream necessity which pursued to be disillusioned regarding Gates had the profound impression.

中文：
小說通過完美的藝術形式描寫了20年代販酒暴發戶蓋茨比所追求的「美國夢」的幻
滅，揭示了美國社會的悲劇。
蓋茨比與黛茜的戀愛和分手本來是個很普通的愛情故事。但作者出手不凡，把蓋茨
比熱戀的姑娘當作青春、金錢和地位的象徵，當作*手段追求富裕物質生活的「美國
夢」。蓋茨比為了追求黛茜耗盡了自己的感情和才智，最後葬送掉自己的生命。他天真
地以為：有了金錢就能重溫舊夢，贖回失去的愛情。可惜，他錯了。他看錯了黛茜這個
粗俗淺薄的女人。他看錯了表面上燈紅酒綠而精神上空虛無聊的社會。他生活在夢幻之
中，被黛茜拋棄，為社會冷落，終於鑄成了無法挽回的悲劇。
蓋茨比是20年代典型的美國青年。他的遭遇正是歡歌笑舞的「爵士時代」的寫照。
作者為小說設計了一個「雙重主人公」尼克·卡羅威。他的重要性在許多方面不亞
於主人公蓋茨比。他既是故事的敘述者和評論者，又是小說中一個重要人物。他與矛盾
著的雙方都有千絲萬縷的關系。他是蓋茨比的鄰居和朋友，又是黛茜的表哥、湯姆的同
學，還熱戀著黛茜的好友喬丹。他充當了蓋茨比和黛茜分別5年後重新見面的牽線人，
又成為蓋茨比重溫舊夢的批評者和他慘遭殺害的同情者。他雖然躋身於長島豪華的住宅
區，但他既不是湯姆所代表的「荒原時代」的精神世界的公民，也不是蓋茨比所代表的
盲目崇拜黛茜的脫離現實的夢幻世界的同路人。他代表美國中西部的傳統觀念和道德准
則。他對於蓋茨比追求失去的幸福的夢幻有許多中肯的批評，對於講究外表而內心卑俗
的湯姆和黛茜則進行了公正的鞭撻。蓋茨比死後，昔日的賓客一個也不露面，黛茜則陪
丈夫遠遠離去，尼克一針見血地指出了社會的虛偽和無情，使讀者對於蓋茨比所追求的
美國夢的必然破滅有了深刻的印象。
小說採用第一人稱的敘事手法，彷彿書中發生的一切都是尼克的親身見聞，不加虛
飾，令人感到親切可信。尼克和蓋茨比兩人從陌生到認識，感情上既有距離，又有融和，
富有多種層次的結合和區別，寫得脈絡清晰，恰到好處。這種把不同的觀點巧妙地統一
在一部小說中，使作品具有深刻的內涵和嚴密的結構，正是作者獨特的藝術成就。
作者在敘述中還運用了許多豐富生動的比喻，使人物的感情起伏和場景的變換增添
了抒情的色彩。精採的比喻常常被用來渲染夢幻的氣氛，表達精神的空虛。如尼克初次
到湯姆家，看到黛茜和她女友貝克坐在沙發上「活像浮在一個停泊在地面上空的大氣
球」，後來才「慢慢地降落地面」。蓋茨比在家裡第一次與黛茜重逢時伸手去抓她的手，
以一種創造性的熱情投入了他的夢幻。「不斷添枝加葉，用飄來的每一根絢麗的羽毛加
以綴飾」。這些夢幻是「牢牢地建立在仙女的翅膀上的」。內涵深刻的比喻把蓋茨比對
「美國夢」的追求描繪得維妙維肖，躍然紙上。
小說還運用了象徵的手法來揭示人物內心的活動與環境的冷酷。比如：西卵碼頭盡
頭有一盞綠燈，蓋茨比常常在晚上孤獨地望著它，伸開雙手想去擁抱它——那青春和愛
情的象徵，彷彿是黛茜的化身。小說末了，尼克又想起了蓋茨比信奉這盞綠燈，似乎近
在眼前，他幾乎不可能抓不住，實際上卻可望而不可即，他的夢想已經遠遠逝去了。又
如書中六次出現的「埃克爾堡大夫的眼睛」是藍色的，「若有所思，陰郁地俯視這片陰
沉沉的灰堆」。它象徵不幸和災難。在情節發展的關鍵之處，這雙眼睛好像復活了，它
彷彿看著蓋茨比去跟湯姆攤牌，又預見到威爾遜要去殺死蓋茨比。渾身銅臭的黛茜愛穿
白色的上衣和裙子，宛如純潔可愛的天使，其實她的靈魂污點斑斑。這象徵純潔的白色
像一面潔白的鏡子，把她的靈魂深處暴露無余。蓋茨比重溫舊夢的幻想一去不復返了。
作者用五光十色的音符譜出了一曲凄悵的悲歌，給人留下無限的思索。

4. 《了不起的蓋茨比》英文讀後感

he 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. 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 looked at mistakenly on the surface the debauchery but the spiritual sky empty bored society. 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. The Gates ratio is the 20's models American youth. His bitter experience is precisely the happy song smiles the dance "knight the time" the portrayal. The author has designed for the novel "the al leading character" Nick the Carrow prestige. His importance is not inferior to the leading character Gates ratio in many aspects. He not only is the story narration and commentary, also is in the novel a important personage. He both is having the very complicated relations with contradictory both sides. He is Gates compared to neighbor and friend, also is the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red cousin, Tom's schoolmate, but also is being in love black eyebrow coloring alizarin red good friend Jordan. He acted as Gates to compare after the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red distinguishes the go-between which 5 years remet, the sympathy which also became which the Gates ratio to revive an old dream the criticism and he suffers kills. He although advances into to the Long Island luxurious residential district, but he already is not "wilderness time" which Tom represents inner world citizen, also is not worships blindly the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red which Gates compares represents to be separated from the reality the illusion world fellow traveller. He represents the American mid-west the traditional ideas and the moral criterion. He happiness illusion which loses compared to the pursue has many critical criticisms regarding Gates, regarding was fastidious the semblance but innermost feelings vulgar Tom and the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red has carried on fair whipping. After Gates compared to dies, former days guest did not make an appearance, the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red accompanied the husband to depart by far, Nick pertinent had pointed out society's false and the heartlessness, caused the reader compared to the American dream necessity which pursued to be disillusioned regarding Gates had the profound impression.

5. 了不起的蓋茨比英文論文

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6. 了不起的蓋茨比英文summery

The plot of The Great Gatsby
The film is told us the story of Gatsby by Nick』 tone. Nick came to New York from his hometown, and he rent a small house nearby Gatsby』s luxurious mansion where hold a grand banquet every night.
The story began with the meet between Nick and Gatsby. Nick had an exploratory interest to Gatsby and understood 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 a rich dandy, but her marriage was not happy because Tom had a mistress. Therefore, the material couldn』t satisfy her spiritual empty.Gatsby was very painful and he believed that Daisy betrayed the pure heart for the money, so he resolved to be a man of wealth and a few years later he managed it. What』s more, in the opposite direction of Daisy』s house Gatsby built a mansion. In order to attract Daisy and aroused the lost love, Gatsby spent money like water. Nick was moved by Gatsby』s passion of love, so he visited to his young female cousin Daisy and told her Gatsby』s mind. Then Gatsby made date with Daisy, often. Finally, Gatsby found Daisy』s vanity, vulgar and selfish. Gatsby』s pink dream finally broke up, but he still insisted it, still retained any illusion about Daisy, and even led to his tragedies.
One day Daisy was in a drunken driving Gatsby』s car ran over and caused an accident that killed Tom』s mistress, and she planned a plot with Tom to put the crime to Gatsby. It led to the mistress』 husband shot Gatsby. Gatsby died, only his father and Nick attended the funeral.
Nick witnessed the virtual mood of human reality. At the end, Nick backed to his hometown with a tragedy mood.

7. 了不起的蓋茨比英文介紹

英文簡介：
The Great Gatsby was published in 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. At first glance, the novel appears to be a simple love story, but further examination reveals Fitzgerald's masterful scrutiny of American society ring the 1920s and the corruption of the American dream.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1926) is, at first sight, a novel about love, idealism and disillusionment. However, it soon reveals its hidden depths and enigmas. What is the significance of the strange "waste land" between West Egg and New York, where Myrtle Wilson meets her death, an alien landscape presided over by the eyes of T J Eckleburg whose eyes, like God's, "see everything"? And what are we to make of the novel's unobtrusive symbolism (the green light, the colour of American dollar bills, which burns at the end of Daisy's dock, the references to the elements - land, sea and earth - over which Gatby claims mastery, the contrast between "East" and "West"), or its subtle use of the personalised first narrator, the unassuming Nick Carraway?

It is a novel which has intrigued and fascinated readers. Clearly, as a self-proclaimed "tale of the West", it is exploring questions about America and what it means to be American. In this sense Gatsby is perhaps that legendary opus, the "Great American Novel", following in the footsteps of works such as Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn.

We will return to this aspect of the novel in more detail later on. However, we also need to be aware that it is a novel which has much to be say about more abstract questions to do with faith, belief and illusion. Although rooted in the "Jazz Age" which Fitzgerald is so often credited with naming, it is also a novel which should be considered alongside works like The Waste Land, exploring that "hollowness at the heart of things" which lies just below the surface of modern life.

Eliot himself remarked that the novel "interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years". Viewed from more distant perspectives it is possible to see Gatsby as an archetypally tragic figure, the epitome of idealism and innocence which strives for order, purpose and meaning in a chaotic and hostile world. In this sense Gatsby contains religious and metaphysical dimensions: the young man who shapes a "Platonic vision of himself" and who endows the worthless figure of Daisy with religious essence, eventually passes away into nothingness, with few at the funeral to lament the passing of his romantic dream.

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