In April 1925, a short story, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a famous American writer, was published. From the point of view of a young man named Nick, the novel tells the story of a young man named Gatsby who is at the bottom of society. Who tries to follow his favorite Daisy to become a neo-rich and join the upper class. But he is not accepted by the upper class and his dream is shattered.
- Why is the Great Gatsby a man's book?
At the beginning of the publication, there was a moderate response to this work, which caused no concern and did not bring the economic benefits expected by the author. Earlier, however, too many people began to concentrate on this work and later created a global sensation. Some critics have hailed the work as "one of the most precise structures and designs in the world". It further mentions that Fitzgerald has left many of his contemporaries behind and the achievement of this work has surpassed even many of his predecessors.
The Great Gatsby narrates the love story between Gatsby and Daisy through narrator Nick in the form of the first person. Gatsby was born into a farm family. He was enlisted in World War I and fell in love with Daisy, a high-class girl. After the two fell in love, Gatsby went to war, and the two young men had to break up. After the war, Gatsby returned from the battlefield. She sees that Daisy is married to Tom, a wealthy businessman.
Gatsby did not give up the urge to love. But always imagined an old love affair with Daisy. He knew that Daisy married Tom because he was rich. So he did not hesitate to get involved with the underworld in the smuggling business, quickly accumulated a huge amount of wealth, and eventually rose from the bottom to the top of society.
Gatsby was already rich. She bought a villa from Daisy's house and had a dance party every weekend. He would not deny anyone who wanted to come. "In his blue garden, men and women move like insects between smiles, champagne and stars every Friday. Five boxes of oranges and lemons are delivered from a fruit shop in New York. Every Monday, the orange and lemon peel turns into a pyramid and through its back door. Is carried
In Nick's arrangement, he and Daisy finally meet, unexpectedly triggering Daisy's car accident, which was made for the result of Gatsby nd and with his love for Daisy Gatsby took his place without hesitation and eventually died.
In this essay, Fitzgerald always maintains an atmosphere of "money is omnipotent" and at the same time it is full of male characters in all parts of the work. All the female characters in the novel are not only connected to men, but passively to men, which critics think Completely men's books.
Both the narrator and the main character, the male narrator Nick, focus all his attention on Gatsby and Tom. However, some critics have noticed that Fitzgerald was not sure about Daisy's hair color. Sometimes he said Daisy's hair was black. But when she wrote about Daisy's daughter with blonde hair, she said that her hair color was the same as her daughter's. But he called Daisy a "golden girl." From this point of view, when the writing about her hair was black, the author deliberately expressed her carelessness.
In fact, Fitzgerald's serious sense of male chauvinism illustrates the real life realities of the time. After the end of the First World War it was a great disappointment and young people all over the country felt lost and lost. Fitzgerald was no exception. He often said: "The stories that come to my mind are a kind of catastrophe. In my novels, beautiful young men go to destruction. So, Fitzgerald especially likes to portray young men and women behind dreams after the war. That's why he lost in the twentieth century." Generation "is said to be the mouthpiece of the writers. In his writings, the life experiences of the heroes and the spiritual world are closely associated with him.
- Gatsby's humble background and wealth
Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Sওo Paulo. In 1917, at the age of 21, he enlisted and fell in love with the wealthy woman Zelda. Although due to his poverty, he had no condition to offer to the jailer. So he had to move forward through writing. In 1920, he became famous for his work on earth. He first got the gold pot and then he married Zelda as his wife. After his marriage, Fitzgerald published several novels with warm reactions, which brought him a lot of income, enough for them to live in Europe and live a prosperous life.
However, the luxurious life gradually makes him feel annoyed. He began to eat and drink for his spiritual emptiness. His life gradually fell into crisis due to his excesses. He had to drink to drown his grief, and eventually fell into the bad habit of drinking. He died of a heart attack in 1940. A few years later his lifelong love died in a fire at Zelda Mental Hospital.
Fitzgerald’s experience was highly representative, in fact it was also a portrait of American youth at the time. From 1917 to 1999, Fitzgerald called it "all the gods died, fought all the wars, and all previous faiths were" completely shaken of mankind. " At that time, people were concerned with only two things: "Fear of poverty, desire for wealth." People are confused by money and wealth, thinking that money can buy everything, money love and happiness.
Man begins to enjoy the pleasures brought by material, puts money in the first place of struggle, the enormous enrichment of wealth gradually brings problems to society, man begins to indulge in joy and instinct in an effort to ease the inner despair. There is no doubt that the influence of traditional theological morality and the influx of human souls have a profound effect on this society.
In the eyes of young people, money means everything. Beautiful women, luxurious homes and luxurious dances throughout life. These are not important for faith, good-evil, dreams, struggles, etc. When Fitzgerald wrote all this, he was actually writing himself. As Nick, the narrator of the Great Gatsby, put it, "I'm both inside and out, annoyed by intoxication and different lives."
In fact, I am very clear that the fascination with women and money is just a kind of irrational delusion, but he does not want to change it. It is as if he were confessing his sin while kneeling before a priest. So he arranged for Gatsby to have a tragic consequence in his actions. Which is definitely the result of money and blind fascination with women.
Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald himself respects the pursuit of women's success as a symbol of his dignity and personal dignity. She wants to get money and social status at any cost, just to win the hearts of women and those beautiful, ignorant and useless women are parasitic with men and they are the source of all evil. This is because following a wide range of elements in women makes men tired. So, he loves and hates women which is the attitude of American society towards women at that time.
In such an environment, Gatsby's "dream of love" and Daisy's "dream of money" will inevitably be destroyed in that chaotic society.
Gatsby's parents were lower class poor people. When Gatsby was very young, he read a book called "Cowboy Cassidy". This book touched him a lot. Therefore, he wrote his goal on the last page of the book. He wanted to improve himself and become a useful talent. He felt the need to study himself and practice hard in all aspects.
At the time, however, Gatsby did not know what success was. He saw the right lady's luxury boat when he was 17 years old. The first step in his development was to release him from his humble position and change his name to "James Gates", which seems to be a form of the English pronunciation of "Jesus, the Son of God".
- Doomed dream and unexpected death
So Gatsby, the son of God, redesigned his life with a dream in the army, Gatsby became a young officer, met Daisy, and in the end his dream became concrete.
Daisy is beautiful. She is bright and charming, elegant and fragrant like an orchid. "Her face is sad and beautiful. But it's beautiful. She has a pair of bright eyes and a bright and warm face. But she has a special passion in her voice, which makes all the men who love her unforgettably." Falling in love as a young woman, which shows that Daisy was a beautiful girl of simple thought at the time, however, Gatsby separated from Daisy because of her participation in World War I. Rich married Tom.
After the marriage Daisy began to like more and more wealth and dignity. He became a money-worshiper who was greedy for glory and wealth and did not have moral beliefs. However, material life did not bring him happiness. Tom cheated again and again, and Daisy's heart was so empty that she had nothing to do all day, so she cried out: "What can we do in the afternoon? And tomorrow and the next 30 years?"
However, Gatsby thinks Daisy will always be that innocent and genuine girl and the presence of their love will always be in her mind. He felt that there was no further contact with the officers after Gatsby went in front. He also knew that Daisy wanted to return the token of love to the pearl necklace after receiving a letter from Gatsby before the wedding with Tommy. It convinces Gatsby that Daisy has to love herself, so Daisy is married and will take her back even after she has children.
Although Gatsby has his own sayings about the source of his wealth, people are skeptical about it. The aristocracy excluded him. They drink his wine and whisper. But that doesn't affect Gatsby's "great" image. Depending on his intelligent mind he explored loopholes that could be exploited. He quickly amassed vast amounts of wealth that others may not have been able to acquire in a few lives. He began to live a life of excess and enjoyment.
Yet, Gatsby still feels inferior to others in order to get others to recognize his wealth and dignity, he imitated the background of New LV University and befriended the government. However, what he did was a bubble bursting at the touch. When Tom reveals his identity, Daisy is shocked and then ignores him. It was indeed a partnership with Tom to blame Gatsby for the accident, which led to the tragedy that Gatsby accidentally died at Wilson's hands.
Gatsby's love is broken. His tragedy is that many people fall, get injured and lose in the process of finding their dreams.
Gatsby spent half his life pursuing a magical dream, a metaphor for the novel.
The novel begins with a green light on the dock. There is a saying here that if you see a green light in the sky. However, it means that there is luck in the novel green light is a symbol of beautiful love. Gatsby respects the green light as a beautiful daisy. Whenever he sees the green light of the ghat on the shore, Gatsby, who is far from the shore, stretches out his arms as if he wants to embrace the green light. It’s a romantic passion in Gatsby’s heart. Under the direction of the green light, he went all the way to follow this destructive love.
No one knows what Gatsby tried and spent to accumulate wealth. But after his success, Gatesby built his own house just opposite Daisy's house to see the light of Daisy's window sill. To attract Daisy, she was able to eat at the villa. The revelators were not invited by Gatsby. They didn't even know who the organizer was. They just wanted to have a free party. Ats Gatsby, the mysterious rich man in the eyes of the guests, just wanted to be able to have another relationship with his beloved Daisy one day. But what about Daisy? He wants to be an aristocrat. Don't let his wife and Gatsby's love go. Until the end, Gatsby defeated Tom. After Daisy killed someone, Gatsby and Tom planted dirt together.
His dream did not come true until Gatsby died. In the farewell gesture he made a classic picture, which conveys the fascination of his dreams.
In The Great Gatsby the author has fixed two suspensions in narration. One is Gatsby's identity, the other is Gatsby's death.
As the protagonist of the novel, Gatsby appeared too late. Before that, people understand him a bit by talking to other people. No one could say his identity and source. As the story progressed its enigmatic outline was enriched. When he died, he was shot at 4:45 p.m., the day after the accident. Gatsby was found dead in the home's swimming pool and Wilson's body was found in the grass next door. How did Gatsby die? Why was Wilson's body found on the grass of Pilsby? This mystery has not been revealed even after two years.
Gatsby is poor. He liked Daisy so much that Nick commented after meeting her for the first time: "This kind of smile is very rare, with a very relaxed feeling. Maybe you can meet her four or five times in your life. For a moment, this smile. The whole eternal world seems to be facing but in a moment it condenses on you and shows you an irresistible priority. Even Wolf Sam, the anxious underworld leader said of Gatsby: I want to give ".
However, he also made a serious mistake. For example, when he talks about his origins, he lies that "I am the son of a rich family in the Midwest. All my family members have died. I grew up in the United States, and I was educated in Oxford, England, because my family has been there for many years." Was educated, which is a family tradition. "
Gatsby is such a conflict. He has ambitions and dreams, but because of his general fascination his dream is ruthlessly destroyed and death becomes his best destination. On the day of the funeral, it starts raining in the sky. In the West, rain at janaza means washing away sins before death and exchanging hopes for spiritual rebirth and returning to heaven after death.
Gatsby came back to earth and merged with nature during the pouring rain.