第一篇：《了不起的盖茨比》英文读后感

The disillusion of the American dream

-The Great Gatsby book review

The Great Gatsby is the representative work of American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald.It is a true reflection of 1920s.The book is a classical novel and has profound meaning of the essence of the American dream’s illusory.The writer showed the American social after the World War I in the book.It uncovers the money worship and hedonism in the Jazz Age and people’s selfishness and indifference in that time.What the novel describes is a tragic story about the disillusion of the American dream.The story happened after the World War I.A young business man named Nick Carraway rent a house in the Long Island.In the opposite house there lives his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom

Buchanan.In the villa next lives Jay Gatsby.Gatsby holds big party every weekend in his villa but there is few people has seen his face.After a while Nick knows that when Gatsby was a soldier, he fell in love with Daisy.However, Daisy finally married with a rich man Tom Buchanan.When the war is ended, Gatsby began to do illegal business and become a millionaire in high society.In order to draw Daisy’s attention, he bought a big house in opposite to Daisy’s and often holds big party.Gatsby and Daisy meet again in the help of Nick.When this is known by Tom, he is burst into anger and they have a quarrel.With extremely nervous, Daisy

drives the car and killed Tom’s mistress Myrtle accidentally.However, Tom suggests Myrtle’s husband Wilson that it is Gatsby who killed her wife.In extreme anger Wilson shoot Gatsby and suicide.In the end of the book, when Nick held a funeral for Gatsby, none of his old friends join.Nick is disappointed to the dark high society of New York so he leave the city and go back to his home in the American Midwest.The theme of the novel is to present the tragedy of the American dream’s disillusion by showing the story of Gatsby’s pursuing of dream.The so-called “American dream” means that in America everyone is equality of opportunity.People can realize their dream and achieve success just by themselves’ struggle.The American dream has always been an ideal that people are convinced of and pursue of.It is a kind of spiritual strength that promote America to developing and flourishing quickly.After the World War I, America has entered into an

unprecedented era of prosperity and the American dream becoming a crazy worship to money.The wind of money worship prevailing.So the American dream has been deteriorated as the social develop.In this novel, the short life of Gatsby has go through the process of dream from start to burst.It symbolize the rise and burst of the American dream at the same time.One side of his American Dream is the dream of money.He realize this dream by illegal business which made him from a poor boy to a millionaire.However, the other side of his dream is the

dream of love and it make him into a sad ending.In fact, his loving dream is another form of his money dream.At first when he fell in love with Daisy, he was attracted by her material life.He yearns for not so much Daisy’s love as Daisy’s high society life.Daisy is the combination of love and money which he’s longing for.She is the represent of a beautiful life.However, in real life, Daisy is far from what Gatsby imagine.She is a selfish, shallow and timid girl and all she wants is money and high society life.Finally Gatsby’s dream broken and it also symbolize the broken of the American dream.The essence of the tragedy of Gatsby is the tragedy of American idealism.But then again, although Gatsby’s effort did not pay off, his spirit of struggling to realize his dream and change the fate is moving and deserves our admiration and learning.

第二篇：《了不起的盖茨比》英文读后感

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左安琪 13061069 The Great Gatsby This is a story about Gatsby and his pursuit for the ‘American dreams’.During the World War One, the poor soldier Gatsby fell in love with an upper class girl named Daisy.But due to the wide gap between them, Daisy decided to marry Tom, a man of her class, instead of Gatsby.Broken-hearted Gatsby then held the conviction that money was of the greatest importance.He strongly believed in the ‘American dreams’, which as we all know, advocates that one can achieve whatever he or she likes through continuous efforts.He strived for five years to become a millionaire and bought a villa near Daisy’s to attract her.He was too addicted 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.I can’t help thinking of the theme Fitzgerald trying to convey.One thing may be the lonely void of people’s spiritual world.I am deeply impressed by chapter 3.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 money and took an indifferent attitude towards life.They chased for temporary ecstasy but lost their identity in eternity, namely Daisy and Tom.The second is the misleading of dreams.Some others like Gatsby, bravely pursued their dreams, yet going to a perged way unconsciously.They might mix up the concept of a richer life and a happier life, viewing a higher social state and a peaceful fulfilled life as equality.Unfortunately, when they were busy chasing their dreams, everything changed with time.W they ignored what they had already had and lost the alert to the constant changes.As far as I am concerned, this story can serve as a reminder for us.To live a meaningful life, we should carefully choose some dreams to pursue.And in the process of fulfilling our dreams, we should always be concious about what we really desire.Anyhow, only by pursuing the proper dreams can we finally get to the deep springs of happiness.

第三篇：《了不起的盖茨比》英文读后感

Pursuit for dreams

—after reading The Great Gatsby

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 my previous unwarranted assumption of it totally wrong.This is a story about Gatsby and his pursuit for the ‘American dreams’.During the World War One, the poor soldier Gatsby fell in love with an upper class girl named Daisy.But due to the wide gap between them, Daisy decided to marry Tom, a man of her class, instead of Gatsby.Broken-hearted Gatsby then held the conviction that money was of the greatest importance.He strongly believed in the ‘American dreams’, which as we all know, advocates that one can achieve whatever he or she likes through continuous efforts.He strived for five years to become a millionaire and bought a villa near Daisy’s to attract her.He was too addicted 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 heart.I can’t help thinking of the theme Fitzgerald trying to convey.One thing may be the lonely void of people’s spiritual world.I am deeply impressed by chapter 3, where a vivid description of a party is given.There were beautiful girls, drunk men, and boisterous crowds there, but none of them perceived the pointless of their lives and the barren of their 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 money and took an indifferent attitude towards life.They chased for temporary ecstasy but lost their identity in eternity, namely Daisy and Tom.The second is the misleading of dreams.Some others like Gatsby, bravely pursued their dreams, yet going to a perged way unconsciously.They might mix up the concept of a richer life and a happier life, viewing a higher social state and a peaceful fulfilled life as equality.Unfortunately, when they were busy chasing their dreams, everything changed with time.When they were anxious about the to-gets, they ignored what they had already had and lost the alert to the constant changes.The excellent use of symbolization illustrates this idea perfectly.The imagery of ‘green light’ is the most important symble which occurred three times in the novel.The green-light’s obscure in the mist indicates the dim of Gatsby’s dreams.As far as I am concerned, this story can serve as a reminder for us.To live a meaningful life, we should carefully choose some dreams to pursue.And in the process of fulfilling our dreams, we

should always be concious about what we really desire.Anyhow, only by pursuing the proper dreams can we finally get to the deep springs of happiness.

第四篇：了不起的盖茨比_英文读后感

Dream can be a disaster

The pursuit of dream is the eternal pursuit of human beings.After the WWI ,America has stepped into a unparalleled prosperous society without suffering from war damage.The American dream then became a jazzy balloon suspending above the heads of Americans.The dream differs from people to people in the surrounding society Gastsby lives.To many people their pursuit are wealth and possession, so after Gastby’s death, they find a lot of excuses for their absence for they knowing clearly that Gastby was no longer useful for them.These people blind their eyes with materials and lost their bearings.Daisy is one of them., who is swallowed by the vanity fair and make use of Gastby’s love for her to him she has no mercy.She lefts Gastby two times, the first for a wealthy and easy marriage, the second for the maintain of her dreamd life.All the roles in the novel are common clays.They live in a world where money take precedence over moral integrity.Compared with them, Gastby is the only hero living in the impulsive society.Gastby is a prime example of pursuing America dream.His dream is closely interrelated with a fair-haired girl who possess a higher social status.All his attempts are for the obtain of her love, even when he becomes aware of Daisy’s secular change.In order to achieve his single goal of his life, he engages in racketeering activities.To Gatsby, Daisy represents the paragon of perfection—she has the aura of charm, wealth, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota and that first attracted him to her.In reality, however, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby’s ideals.She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, bored.Nick characterizes her as a careless person who smashes things up and then retreats behind her money.Daisy proves her real nature when

she chooses Tom over Gatsby in Chapter VII, then allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson even though she herself was driving the car.Finally, rather than attend Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no forwarding address.The whole-hearted dedication to Gastby’s sincere belief makes him heroic.But his pursuit is fanaticism.There are two murders of his death and America dream.The first is the society in which money and social status overweighs integrity.The second is his blindfold and illusionary goal.He fails to see the nature of Daisy, who is not worthy of his dream.Dreams in healthy society are respectful.Everyone desires something in life.But we need to be calm in uproar, deep in impulsive.Let sense rather than sensibility blind our eyes.No matter what our social position is, we are the noble in spirit and then strive to achive our goals.

第五篇：《了不起的盖茨比》英文读后感

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.