The Great Gatsby论文
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The Great Gatsby
Abstract: The passage is mainly talking about the background and the author of
the Great Gatsby. And then I am going to talk about Daisy who is the girl who
Catsby love and what I think about her.
Key Words: backgroud Daisy Catsby
F.Scott Fitzgerald was the author of The Great Gatsby who was considered as
one of the most outstanding writers in the USA in the 20th century. His family was
socially prominent an genteelly poor. He married with his wife after struggle for
furtune. In this book, the protagonist Daisy was the epitome of his wife while Gatsby
was miniature of the author. He write so many work such as This Side of Paradise,
The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night, The last Tycoon. But I think The
Catsby is the most wonderful one. T.S.Elliot had ever said that the first step that
American fiction has taken since Henry James, beacause Fitzgerald depicted the
extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene.
Writen in 1920s, the novel show the picture following the First World War.
American society enjoyed prosperity during the ‘roaring’ 1920s as the economy soars.
They put aside traditional morals and values, but lead a voluptuous life. Gatsby is a
poor youth from the Midwest who falls in love with a girl named Daisy from a
wealthy family. Gatsby is too poor to marry her, so he left and asked her waiting for
him. Daisy is married to a rich young man named Tom Buchanan. In order to win her
back, Catsby entertained lavishly to catch the attention of Daisy. By accident, Nick
Carraway, a relative of Daisy helps Catsby ti make an appointment with Daisy. But he
finds Daisy is no longer the ideal love of his dream. Daisy and Tom do not love each
other. Tom has mistress named Myrtle Wilson who is a wife of a owner of garage.
One day, Daisy has a quarrel with Tom. She rushes out and drives Catsby’s car out. As
a result, she kills Myrtle Wilson by accident. In order to protect themselves, Daisy and
Tom lie to Myrtle’s husband and say that it is Catsby kills her eventually. Myrtle’s husband goes to Catsby’s house and shoots him down.
I am not going to talk the great Catsby. Who I am going to talk about is Daisy
who is a girl from wealth family. There is not doubt that the innocent love between
Daisy and Catsby exists at first. She chooses to married to Tom who is very rich. In
fact she worships material so I am not surprise at the death of Catsby. She is a selfish.
What she really concerns is herself not the feeling of others, When she met Catsby
again, she is not excited about finding the lover but thinks that she can get rid of the
aweful life. She looks forward to the life of upper class. At the end, what she chooses
is still her husband who can give her good condition and protect her. “The beautiful
fool girl” is what she calls her daughter. I think she will be another ‘Daisy’ one day. It
is irony that Daisy kills Myrtle but Catsby dies replacing her.
The Great Gatsby is a good book. The Oxford Companion said that his finest
novel, sensitive and symbolice treatment of themes of contemporary life related with
irony and pathos to the legendry of the American dream.
