第一篇：了不起的蓋茨比 英文書評

The whole story of The Great Gatsby is set on Long Island in New York City from spring to autumn in 1922.With the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the extravagant and glittering life of American upper class and dizzying, narcissistic wealth,(Guy Reynolds, 1993: VI)to encounter some typical person of that age.Jay Gatsby, the hero of this novel, represents those dream-pursuing people only finds that it is all illusion.The tragedy of Gatsby is also the tragedy of Fitzgerald as well as American society.With the realistic and even sardonic description, the novel represents us the theme of the disillusion of American Dream.Just as the Great Depression in 1930s ended the prosperous and flashy “Roaring Twenties”, the failure of Gatsby at last represents us that the so-called American Dream is a pseudo image.Although Gatsby lived a seemingly luxurious life, he never

Gatsby is a victim of his era and society.The American Dream encourages people from generation to generation to pursue physical wealth and keep spiritual purity at the same time.They consider money as a simple method and tool in one?s way to success.But the valuable things you lost during your money-accumulation progress can never be regained no matter how wealthy you are afterwards.The main contradiction of the American Dream is the difference between reality and ideality.People who want to pursue the dream must face the cruelty and ruthlessness of the society.Gatsby fails, so do most of other pursuers.Gatsby?s whole life is originate in dream and ruined by dream, it is his American Dream that makes him succeed and destroyed, died pathetically in the end.This is the tragedy of Gatsby and tragedy of the American society.

第二篇：了不起的蓋茨比 英文書評

The Great Gatsby

Reading experience：

I start to read the book about 3 weeks ago ,At first, I searched some information about the author from the Internet, then glanced the basic content of novel, When I read the several chapters ahead of the novel, I feel it was so boring , the complex relationship would kill me.When I nearly finished the novel, everything was suddenly enlightened.Information about this novel：

The novel is told us the story of Gatsby by Nick’s tone.Nick came to New York from his hometown the America Middle West, 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.And 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.Introduction of the author：

The Great Gatsby is written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, who was born in1896 and died in Hollywood in 1940, and grew up in St.Paul, Minnesota.He is the most important representative of the “Jazz Age”.He published the novel Tender is the Night, Paradise, the Last Tycoon and so on;and published over 160 short novels, for instance, Benjamin’s Fantasy Trip, Ice Palace, Winter Dream and so on.The twentieth century, the United States academic community selected 100 the best novels in the river of English literature.The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night are the list.And The Great Gatsby is second.He first published The Great Gatsby on April 10, 1925, a story set in Island’s North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922.Impression on the novel:

After reading the novel, I was deeply shocked by Gatsby’s persistence,dream, and his miserable ending,and impressed more about the “Jazz Age”.In American history, maybe“ it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way”.The Gates ratio is the 20's models American youth,he was young and full of passion to realize all his dreams ,which could have been a perfect character in any times.However, he was poor,and this,which made him become a tragic character, also was the focus in that age-“Jazz Age”.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.“There was a faint,barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other.With little ripples that was hardly the shadows ofwaves ,the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool.”A hopeless ending indicates that the most beautiful dream in that age was eventually

destroyed by the reality,the social.We can clearly know that Daisy did not choose Gatsby although he had become much more affluent than Tom ,but choose her previous life-living with Tom,it may be a bad choise,but it was really the decision made by Daisy herself,a selfish, disingenuous and vain girl,the girl which Gastby always loved and was willing to pay everything he has for ,even she betrayed more than once,and this can be inferred when Gastby showed his love and she hesitated.Shutting the book,I am deep in thought.The author tries to describe the social,the so-called up class ,the so-called prosperous country,and certainly the shattered“the American dream”.In my opinion,the author not only wants to attack the luxury and hypocrisy of the classes,but also to appeal to people to pursue true love,not the greed of money and

hypocrisy,although this book has a desperate ending.

第三篇：了不起的蓋茨比書評

了不起的蓋茨比書評

作品背景是上世紀20年代的柯立芝繁榮時期，期間美國經濟達到了前所未有的繁榮，在金錢至上的社會里，蓋茨比追求財富顯符合當時美國民眾的想法，我想講一下主人公的毀滅及他的愛情。

其實，他只是個發了財的私酒販，卻始終無依無靠、受著所謂上流階層的蔑視、排擠；黛西當然有對蓋茨比動心，也只不因為蓋茨比能給他提供更多的物質享受和精神慰藉，她的確有過與湯姆分開的想法甚至勇氣，但一聽聞蓋茨比只是私酒販而非她想象的地位之人時，她吝嗇的愛瞬間蕩然無存。

蓋茨比和黛西的愛情是建立在錢的基礎上，但這之間我看是沒有愛的，或頂多是單向。他自認用錢便可買到舊愛的心。鐵證是，為了掩蓋自己的罪行，黛西不念恩情，卑鄙地借刀殺死了蓋茨比。

黛西的價值觀是遺忘了浪漫和純真，麻木寄生于金錢。蓋茨比的毀滅與其說是被子彈穿過，不如說是將理想寄予錯誤的對象，最終成為被利用的玩物。

他身上能肯定的也就是他的了不起之處就是能在那個物欲橫流，拜金主義之風盛行的時代還堅守著自己的理想——戴西。然而他在發跡前后對理想從未動搖，從未改變。因此了不起之處就在于與別人與眾不同，他們愿意為現實而犧牲理想。蓋茨比則寧肯為理想而放棄現實。

作者以小窺大，用悲劇的愛情折射出美國夢的破滅，也隱晦地諷刺了上層社會貪婪而腐朽的本質。一個在“美國夢”里忠于理想、被欺騙利用而不自知的小人物就是蓋茨比。

第四篇：了不起的蓋茨 書評

《了不起的蓋茨比》講訴的是一個關于執著追求和夢想幻滅的故事。主人公詹姆斯卡茲本是北達科他州的一個貧窮的農家子, 自幼開始模仿富蘭克林, 夢想日后做個出人頭地的大人物。他經過一番自我努力, 終于步步高升, 成為一個有錢有勢的人, 并更名為杰伊#蓋茨比。他在肯塔基州一個軍訓營里任青年少尉時,第一次有機會步入美國的上流社會結識了南方的大家閨秀黛西費。自那時起, 他便夢想著娶她為妻, 卻被派遣到法國, 他的黛西嫁給了來自芝加哥的大富翁湯姆#布坎楠。蓋茨比退役歸來, 依然熱烈追求黛西,為了圓他多年的愛情夢, 在長島西卵買下了一幢豪華宅第, 與住在東卵的布坎楠夫婦隔海灣相望，豪擲千金舉辦豪華氣派的宴會, 以迎合黛西的物質要求。然而 , 蓋茨比最終將自己葬送給了幻滅的夢想。

女主人公黛西, 人如其名，一面是個美麗魅惑如花朵般的女子，惹人憐愛；一面是個追求奢華生活的物質女郎，外表純潔內心貪婪。（Daisy是“雛菊”的意思，雛菊花瓣潔白而花蕊是黃色的）“她的臉龐憂郁而美麗，臉上有明媚的神采，有兩只明媚的眼睛，有一張明媚而熱情的嘴，但是她聲音甲有一種激動人心的特質，那是為她傾倒過的男人都覺得難以忘懷的：一種抑揚動聽的魅力，一聲喃喃的“聽著”，一種暗示，說她片刻以前剛剛干完一些賞心樂事，而且下一個小時里還有賞心樂事?！毙≌f中的出場展現出黛西作為大家閨秀的令人著迷的獨特魅力。但隨著情節發展，黛西逐漸顯露了膚淺、庸俗的一面，深愛她的蓋茨比看得最為清楚“Her voice full of money?！彼欠N對自己所擁有的一切物質財富理所當然的想法和物質的欲望使他在本質上和Tom并沒有區別，自私、貪婪、扭曲。

男主人公蓋茨比，一個勇敢執著的追夢人，一個最愚昧的偉大者。故事的開頭，他是個神秘而慷慨的紳士，彬彬有禮，氣度不凡，在新興的富人區別墅舉行開放式豪華派對，所有人都聽過他的名字，所有人都去過他的派對，關于他的流言各式各樣，但卻好像沒有人真正見過他。直到尼克的到來，才揭開一段癡情守候的真相：“他等了整整五年，買下那座華廈，把星光施舍給那些想來就來、想去就去的飛蛾——他費了這么多心血，只是為了能夠在某天下午，到一個陌生人家里“坐坐””。來來去去的飛蛾不僅是那些庸庸碌碌及時行樂的俗人，也是為了愛情奮不顧身飛蛾撲火的蓋茨比他自己。問世間情為何物，直教人生死相許。葬禮上父親的追憶描繪出年輕的G是如何的朝氣蓬勃，奮發進取，他相信只要不斷努力就能夠過上自己想要的生活，但是冰冷的現實是殘酷的?！八谝淮我姷谨煳跫掖a頭末端的綠燈時，肯定也感到萬分驚喜。他走過漫漫長路才來到這片藍色的港灣，肯定覺得夢想已經離得非常近，幾乎伸出手就能夠抓得到。他所不知道的是，夢想已經落在他身后，落在紐約以西那廣袤無垠的大地上，落在黑暗夜幕下連綿不絕的美國原野上。”菲茨杰拉德這樣總結這個時代的特點：“一切神明統統死光，所有戰爭都已打完，對人的一切信念完全動搖?！钡燃壷贫壬瓏赖纳鐣虥]了人性，蓋茨比終究被虛幻的美夢葬送自己，但正是他一人挑戰時代的精神成就了他的偉大，喚醒每個沉睡靈魂的共鳴，映射著每個時代里面每個小小的不甘平庸的我們。

小說中的尼克是個特殊的人物。書的首句就是他的獨白“每當你想要批評別人的時候，要記住，這個世界上并不是所有人，都有你擁有的那些優勢。我現在仍然唯恐錯過什么東西，如果我忘記（如同我父親帶著優越感所暗示過的，我現在又帶著優越感重復的）每個人的基本道德觀生而不同，不可等量齊觀?！痹谌珪?，尼克像一只蹺蹺板的支點：社會地位上，他屬于落沒的上流社會；思想品德上，他擁有未被腐壞的善良；個人追求上，他有搖擺在利益與理想之間。他既置身其中, 又置身其外。但隨著小說情發展 , 尼克最初的中立態度有所變化。尼克最后一次與蓋茨比分別時, 他喊到 :“他們是一幫混蛋, 他們那一大幫子放在一起還比不上你?！彼K于說出了對蓋茨比說過的唯一一句好話?？俗詈罂偨Y了布坎南夫婦之流的本質 :“他們是粗心大意的人 ———他們砸碎了東西 ,毀滅了人, 然后就退縮到自己的金錢或者麻木不仁或者不管什么使他們留在一起的東西中,讓別人去收拾他們的爛攤子?！彪m然尼克后來逐漸傾向于蓋茨比所代表的價值觀, 但由于人生追求各不相同 ,他們之間也有天壤之別 ,他始終游離于主要人物的恩怨之外。

在翻開書之前，我以為這是一個講述主人公如何叱詫風云，如何情場得意。讀完后卻發現這種“偉大”并不是指做出的貢獻和表現，而是靈魂的偉大。合上書本，最后一句話縈繞在我耳邊?！癝o we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” 無論身處哪個時代，我們都要像被命運的潮涌不斷向后推擠，偏離我們想要抓住的綠光，在夢想幻滅的社會，當美麗的理想被冷酷的現實所粉碎 , 天真的愛情被金錢所腐蝕，到底如何才能得到幸福的生活。“在甜蜜的夢鄉里,人人都是平等的,但是當太陽升起,生存的斗爭重新開始時,人與人之間又是多么的不平等?！?《總統先生》，人身而平等卻又不平等，也許上帝對我們唯一公平的地方就在于讓每個人都經歷不平等。而蓋茨比他是真正以夢為馬一路披荊斬棘的人，他當然了不起。有時候，我們也只能成為索?？肆_斯筆下的俄狄浦斯，經受命運的嘲弄，卻還不斷反抗者無法反抗的人生，也像海明威筆下的圣地亞哥，即使賭上一切奮力拼搏，也只能從**和鯊魚的夾攻下帶回一尾魚骨頭，但我們肯定能夠得到別的一些什么，所以，盡情享受沒有的答案的人生吧。

第五篇：The book report of The Great Gatsbay《了不起的蓋茨比》英文書評

The book report of The Great Gatsbay

By F.Scott.Fizgerald

The novel takes place following the First World War.American society enjoyed prosperity during the “roaring” 1920s as the economy soared.At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers.After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic.The Grreat Gatsby is ranked second in the Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.But everyone has the different criteria on good books.I think when you eat it the taste is what you need.The good books tell you clearly something that lurks in your brain dimly.So you will feel very good if you resonate with the character in books.Another point of good books is, after you have eaten it the taste isso good that you want to eat it again.The good book is amusing and thought inspiring.The Great Gatsby also has a lot of puns and symbolism.The book is a litter like what it say on the first stage.After reading the novel, I turned to search for more information about the author and the background of the story.It is said that, with The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald made a conscious departure from the writing process

of his previous novels.He started planning it in June 1922, after completing his play The Vegetable and began composing it in 1923.He ended up discarding most of it as a false start, some of which resurfaced in the story “Absolution”.Unlike his previous works, Fitzgerald intended to edit and reshape Gatsby thoroughly, believing that it held the potential to launch him toward literary acclaim.He told his editor Maxwell Perkins that the novel was a “consciously artistic achievement” and a “purely creative work — not trashy imaginings as in my stories but the sustained imagination of a sincere and yet radiant world”.He added later, during editing, that he felt “an enormous power in me now, more than I've ever had”.After the birth of their child, the Fitzgeralds moved to Great Neck, Long Island in October 1922, appropriating Great Neck as the setting for The Great Gatsby.Fitzgerald's neighbors included such newly wealthy New Yorkers as writer Ring Lardner, actor Lew Fields and comedian Ed Wynn.Great Neck, on the shores of Long Island Sound, sat across a bay from Manhasset Neck or Cow Neck Peninsula, which includes the communities of Port Washington, Manhasset, Port Washington North and Sands Point and was home to many of New York's wealthiest established families.In his novel, Great Neck became the new-money peninsula of “West Egg” and Manhasset Neck the old-money peninsula of “East Egg”.Progress on the novel was slow.In May 1923, the Fitzgeralds moved to the French Riviera, where the novel was finished.In November he sent the draft to his editor Maxwell Perkins and his agent Harold Ober.The Fitzgeralds moved to Rome for the winter.Fitzgerald made revisions through the winter after Perkins informed him that the novel was too vague and Gatsby's biographical section too long.Content after a few rounds of revision, Fitzgerald returned the final batch of revised galleys in the middle of February 1925.By contrast, now we are on he initial stage of the socialist

market economy.Our GDP and material living standard are higher than before.But our society is not in harmony.It is a litter like the American roaring jazz age.In this money crazy modern times, many people make money from fraud, bribery, exploitation and smuggling.Also in this material world, we are thirsty, worried and lost.Our goals swing to money and materialism too much.We should swing it back to true love, fraternity, righteousness, sincerity and art a litter.