了不起的盖茨比英文读后感

1、了不起的盖茨比英文读后感The novel described for the 20s through the perfect artistic formto sell the American dream which liquor nouveau riche Gatescompared pursues vanishing, has promulgated the Americansocietys tragedy. Gates and bids good-bye compared to and theblack eyebrow coloring alizarin red love origin

2、ally is the very ordinarylove story. But the author makes a masterly opening move,compared to the girl which is in love treats as Gates the youth, themoney and the status symbol, treats as * the method pursue wealthymaterial life the American dream.Gates compares in order to pursue the black eyebrow

3、coloring alizarin red to exhaust own sentiment and the ability andwisdom, finally ruined own life. He naively thought that, Had themoney to be able to revive an old dream, redeems the love whichlost.He was what a pity wrong. He looked at mistakenly blackeyebrow coloring alizarin red this vulgar supe

4、rficial woman. Helooked at mistakenly on the surface the debauchery but thespiritual sky empty bored society. He lives in the illusion, is gotten ridby the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red, is desolate for the society,finally has cast the tragedy which is unable to recall. The Gates ratiois the 2

5、0s models American youth. His bitter experience is preciselythe happy song smiles the dance knight the time the portrayal.The author has designed for the novel the dual leadingcharacter Nick the Carrow prestige. His importance is not inferior tothe leading character Gates ratio in many aspects. He n

6、ot only is thestory narration and commentary, also is in the novel a importantpersonage. He both is having the very complicated relations withcontradictory both sides. He is Gates compared to neighbor andfriend, also is the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red cousin, Tomsschoolmate, but also is bein

7、g in love black eyebrow coloring alizarinred good friend Jordan.He acted as Gates to compare after the black eyebrowcoloring alizarin red distinguishes the go-between which 5 yearsremet, the sympathy which also became which the Gates ratio torevive an old dream the criticism and he suffers kills. He

8、 althoughadvances into to the Long Island luxurious residential district, but healready is not wilderness time which Tom represents inner worldcitizen, also is not worships blindly the black eyebrow coloringalizarin red which Gates compares represents to be separated fromthe reality the illusion wor

9、ld fellow traveller. He represents theAmerican mid-west the traditional ideas and the moral criterion. Hehappiness illusion which loses compared to the pursue has manycritical criticisms regarding Gates, regarding was fastidious thesemblance but innermost feelings vulgar Tom and the black eyebrowcol

10、oring alizarin red has carried on fair whipping.After Gates compared to dies, former days guest did notmake an appearance, the black eyebrow coloring alizarin redaccompanied the husband to depart by far, Nick pertinent hadpointed out societys false and the heartlessness, caused the readercompared to

11、 the American dream necessity which pursued to bedisillusioned regarding Gates had the profound impression.At the beginning of the review, I am afraid but I need mentionthat I read The Great Gatzby from my paper book, not online, so itmight be a little strange in the record of my reading history and

12、 alsothe lack of comments.After reading the novel, I sympathized deeply for Gatzby,who dedicated almost his whole life into pursuing Daisy, buteventually was shot down for Daisy’s fault, and also Nick,who narrate this heart-broken story to us. But I believe that all isdestined, not only hi

13、s success, but also his miserable, dramaticending.First, Gatzby meant to be succeed, which was determined byhis personality. He was such an absolute perfectionist, fairlyspeaking, a paranoiac, that he never accept he was inferior to othersin all kinds of aspects. He scheduled his life when he was yo

14、ung inorder to achieve his goal. He couldn’t live like Tom whodissipated his time on women, also couldn’t like Wilson live someaninglessly, and his ambition made it impossible for him to becontent with common life. After the moment he denied his poor familybackground, changed his

15、 name into Jay Gatzby, he either succeed,or die.No matter how, he will succeed. I always believe it becausehis characteristic promised.And I also believe Gatzby would fall in love with a lady with acelebrated background. Because he was a perfectionist , hemust long for a charming, wealthy, graceful

16、aristocracy. Daisy wasjust a representation of perfection, a concrete thing in his dream.However, Daisy falls far short of Gatzby’s ideal. Sheis beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, and hypocritical.She is careless person who smashes thing up and then retreatsbehind her money.

17、 She allows Gatsby to take the blame for killingMyrtle ever though she herself was driving the car. Finally, ratherthan attend Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away,leaving no contact address.Gatzby knew exactly what kind of person she was. And thevery beginning of the novel, he said “

18、 Her voice is full of money ”.But how can it matter? His puzzle of life would be incomplete withoutDaisy, and as we know, he was such a paranoiac that never let ithappen. It’s impossible for him to restart.Gatzby’s obsession about Daisy and Daisy’scharacteristic determi

19、ned the trend of plot.So, it is destined.And not only from the plot development we can say Gatzby’s fate wasdestined, but also from the writer himself. Technically, Gatzby wasn’t a onlyfictional character, but also the reflection of writer, Fitzgerald himself. He also had acomple

20、x relationship of his own. His own experience made him believe thatthere’s a huge gap between the “ natural ” rich and the” new ” rich.In rich boy, his another novel, he showed his attitude directly:Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. Theypossess and en

21、joy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we arehard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is verydifficult to understand.They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we hadto discover the compensations an

22、d refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enterdeep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. Theyare different.Because of the poverty and adversity they had been through, they alwayscherish the first glamorous thing dropping in their life. Some of the

23、m even take it as thehighest goal in life, like Gatzby who considered Daisy as his whole world. When theirdream faded out gradually, they might behave like Gatzby, deceive themselves to protecttheir“ little green light ” in thuntil their hearts are beaten to pieces by reality.At last, I want to use

24、the final sentence in The Great Gaztby as the end, which Iconsider as the most profound ending I have ever read and inspire me a lot.Gatzby’s dream was always behind him, from the moment he met Daisy and fell inlove with her. So what he did was just striving hard back into the past against

25、 the currentof time, like the ending says:So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.I have heard of the famous novel The Great Gatsby for many years. However,until recently have I got the time and mood to read it. As soon as I finish reading, I find myprevious un

26、warranted assumption of it totally wrong.This is a story about Gatsby and his pursuit for the ‘Americandreams’ 。 During the World War One, the poor soldier Gatsby fell in love with anupper class girl named Daisy. But due to the wide gap between them, Daisy decided tomarry Tom, a

27、man of her class, instead of Gatsby. Broken-hearted Gatsby then held theconviction that money was of the greatest importance. He strongly believed in the‘American dreams’ ， which as we all know, advocates that one canachieve whatever he or she likes through continuous efforts. He

28、 strived for five years tobecome a millionaire and bought a villa near Daisy’s to attract her. He was tooaddicted to his fantasy to realize that Daisy was no longer the lovely girl she used to be.Eventually, he was killed because of her crime.After reading it, something reverberates in my

29、heart. I can’t help thinkingof the theme Fitzgerald trying to convey. One thing may be the lonely void ofpeople’s spiritual world. I am deeply impressed by chapter 3, where a vividdescription of a party is given. There were beautiful girls, drunk men, and boisterouscrowds there,

30、but none of them perceived the pointless of their lives and the barren oftheir minds. To see this phenomenon deeper, there were two circumstances underlying it.The first is the lack of dreams. Some people, especially the people of the upper class,lived an aimless life. They wasted their time and mon

31、ey and took an indifferent attitudetowards life.They chased for temporary ecstasy but lost their identity in eternity, namely Daisyand Tom. The second is the misleading of dreams. Some others like Gatsby, bravelypursued their dreams, yet going to a diverged way unconsciously. They might mix up theco

32、ncept of a richer life and a happier life, viewing a higher social state and a peacefulfulfilled life as equality. Unfortunately, when they were busy chasing their dreams,everything changed with time. When they were anxious about the to-gets, they ignoredwhat they had already had and lost the alert

33、to the constant changes. The excellent useof symbolization illustrates this idea perfectly. The imagery of ‘green light’isthe most important symble which occurred three times in the novel. Thegreen-light’s obscure in the mist indicates the dim of Gatsby’s drea

34、ms.As far as I am concerned, this story can serve as a reminder for us. To live ameaningful life, we should carefully choose some dreams to pursue. And in the processof fulfilling our dreams, we should always be concious about what we really desire.Anyhow, only by pursuing the proper dreams can we f

35、inally get to the deep springs ofhappiness.There is a dream,rooted deeply in every American,from the very beginning oftheMayFlower,that the great grandfathers of all Americans had been contemplatingandseeking,and of all Americans that has been written in the second sentence of theUnitedStates Declar

36、ation of Independence which states that all men are created equal andthat they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights including Life,Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.The American Dream (), is a beliefthat as long as the United States after a hard struggle will be able to ac

37、hieve the ideal ofa better life, that is, people have to work through their own hard work, courage, creativityanddetermination to move towards Prosperity,rather than rely on specific social classes andother assistance. This is usually on behalf of the people in the economic success orentrepreneurial

38、 spirit.Yet, the dream has already became a nightmare,that in themoney-orienting,power-persuing minds springing up since the IndustryRevolution,Americans have fallen in,not only the way of life through which Americansrifling for more luxurious enjoyment, but the morality of heart that they persued p

39、rosperitywith all costs of which they were oblivious.Luckly,we had people who saw the reality much more clearly than the blindmasses,while those were considered Critics of sorts.They pointed out that many versionsof the dream equate prosperity with happiness, and that happiness may not always bethat

40、 simple. These critics suggest that the American Dream may always remaintantalizingly out of reach for some Americans, making it more like a cruel joke than agenuine dream. Fitzgerald was one of them who went the first step that American fictionhas taken since Henry James, because he depicted the ex

41、tolled grandest and mostboisterous, reckless and merry-making scene(T.S.Elliot) 。It was five years that Fitzgerald foreseen the latent fatal cancer of Capitalism ofAmerican. The Great Gatsby soon came into being,in which first half is comedy,secondhalf is tragidy.In the third-person view,Nike, who l

42、earns that his next-door neighbor, whothrows lavish parties hosting hundreds of people, is the wealthy, mysterious JayGatsby.And the key charactor ,Gatsby, had fallen in love with Daisy in 1917 as an ArmyLieutenant stationed near Daisys hometown, Louisville. After the war, Gatsby came eastand bought

43、 his mansion near Daisy and Tom, where he hosts parties hoping she willvisit.Befor then Gatsby was a man of integrity and honor,who received great respect formthe society to his wealth and power.While after his death,he was merelyremembered,forgottern in the flew of time and lust. These parties were

44、 fashionable, butpointless. It was only a show-off of Gatsby’s riches and material success. Thecrowds hardly knew their host; many came and went without invitation.The music, the laughter and the faces, all blurred as one confused mass, showedthe purposelessness and the loneliness of the p

45、arty-goers beneath their marks ofrelaxation and joviality. All this was typical of “ the Jazz Age ”， when many people lostbelief in American dream and indulge themselves in drinking and dancing. Thegreat expectations which the first settlement of the American continent brings vanish, andso despair a

46、nd doom set in.In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like mothsamong the whisperings and the champagne and the stars week-ends his Rolls-Roycebecame an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morningand long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a

47、 brisk yellow bug tomeet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all daywith mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing theravages of the night before.“ Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in NewYork-

48、every Monday these same orangesand 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 highlightGatsby’s tragedy by c

49、ontrasting the grandeur of his party with his violentdeath, with the frustration of his dream. Gatsby’s funeral was rather deserted andcheerless compared with his parties. It’s a record of human coldness. Nick hadinvited some people to come to Gatsby’s funeral. These pe

50、ople were allGatsby’s so-called friends. They found a lot of excuses for their absence becauseOnthey knew clearly that Gatsby was no longer useful for them. Gatsby’s generousparties had not brought him even one friend. What’s more, Daisy, onceGatsby’s lover, t

51、he real killer,“nhtaadn’t semessage or a flower ”。(Chapter 9, 233)The sharp contrast between the exavagence ofthe parties and the coldness of the funeral revealed the hypocritical relationship amongpeople and the moral degradation of the Jazz Age.Gatsby, though his wealth came from his cri

52、minal activities,was the typicalsymbol of American dream in that time,and the whole-hearted dedication of Gatsby andhis sincere belief in what he did made him heroic, and this submerged the unpleasantdetails so that they did not seem important in the final outcome,as has the Americandreammer who wer

53、e so stubborn to believe perspirition would bring what they want.The real killer who murderred Gatsby was the society,in which people couldbecome rich overnight by non-moral means.A poor beautiful girl could marry a wealthyboy who may not be handsome for the purpose of being rich,and a young man cou

54、ld finda job in which he would do nothing but be paid.While Gatsby, the true heir to theAmerican dream,was killed by Conspiracy of his lover Daisy ,who was actually stimulatedby the vanity fair, and lived in luxury at the cost of Gatsby, to whom without mercy. Thecruel reality smashed Gatsby&rsq

55、uo;s dream. Fitzgerald’s comment on the failureof Gatsby’s dream was also a statement on the failure of American dream. Thecontrast of the dream and the reality significantly indicated a moving away from faith andhope in a world where material interests had driven out sentimental

56、ity and faith. What ismore, dream, even if it persists, is utterly helpless and defenseless against a materialsociety. 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 hisunrealistic dre

57、am of love and he did not correctly handle contradictions between idealand reality, Gatsby sunk into this kind of unreal dream so deeply that he can’twake up. And the final result of Gatsby was surely miserable.The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s finest novel. “ sensitive and symbol

58、ictreatment of themes of contemporary life related with irony and pathos to the legendry ofthe American dream. ” The Oxford Companion to American Literature The sharp contrast between dream and reality not only explains Gatsby’sfailure at the end, it also explains the meaninglessness of th

59、at age. In a word, thesecontrasts provide the readers with a panorama of 1920s. And in the contrast, the themeof the novel -the disillusion of the American dream - isstrengthened. In the mean time,the loss of the American dream reflects the corruption ofpeople’s morality.延伸阅读：了不起的盖茨比中文读后感了不起的盖茨比中文读后感 （一）看任何小说都是在其中寻找与自己的契合点。某句话和某个词在小说特定的场景下引起我们思想上的共鸣，或者是安自己的思 维联想到和小说毫无关系但自己感处很深的遥远的地方。我的读后感都是“自我式”的注解，不是对小说本身的解读，而是由小说联系到我自己和小说本身并无关系。我的思维面很窄，每本小说的读 后感都是万变不离其宗，那就是我的理想和处事原则及一些很常识 的小想法。很幼稚 !但我想留