《了不起的盖茨比》英文读后感

第一篇：《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 diverged 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.

第二篇：了不起的盖茨比英文读后感范文

When the ideal runs into the reality

-------the book review of the Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a significant classic in America literature and Fitzgerald is also considered as a chronicler of the “Jazz Age”.The women characters play an important role in revealing the theme of the novel.Especially the figure Daisy and the contradictions in her has aroused my interests to think carefully about the reason why she would choose that when her ideal ran into the reality.Daisy was once a lovely, elegant and innocent girl when she was “Daisy Fay”.Though Gatsby was a penniless lower class young man, she fell in love with him crazily and happily.While she changed and showed her darker side gradually.She noticed the importance of wealth and position, so she chose to marry to Tom Buchanan though she did not love him as much as Gatsby at that time.Besides, Daisy considered her daughter as a doll and continued playing with those guys.Even until the end, her former lover Gatsby who was wealthy and renowned then came back to her.Considering Gatsby’s illegal sources of money and his inglorious past, Daisy refused to go with Gatsby finally.What annoyed me the most is the plot that Gatsby was murdered because of the misunderstanding of Wilson while Daisy did not attend his funeral.She may have many scruples when her ideal life was disturbed by the cruel reality.Actually everyone may become confused and perplexed when we face the confliction.Also everyone has his own choice.But the point is how much we can afford when confront the result that happened after our decision.The slang “Make friends with local tyrant” is very popular nowadays.We ought to think about the hidden reason for its popularity after we scoff at it.With the fast development of economy, more and more people are lost themselves just like the young generation after the World War Ⅰ.Their value has been or is going to be changed completely.They don’t know what exactly right is and what exactly they are supposed to do.Some students play online games in the dormitory rather than go to the classes.Some staff has become a workaholic in order to deal with the life pressure.Some married stars betrayed their families without remembering their oath.It seems that the whole society has ran out of the regular track.So it is high time that we calmed down and reflected ourselves.What exactly is our final ideal and how could we make it a reality?

Honestly speaking, nobody could live in the society without money.And obviously, almost everyone has been aware of the necessity of money.So no wonder people are struggling and fighting to get more money.But what if the life with plenty money is different from the life we used to dream of? As far as I’m thinking, it is definitely that life is more cruel that we thought and it is impossible that life goes as we designed.We can not own everything that we want to have.What we could do and what we could change is just ourselves.Our choices, our goals or our attitudes all have an impact on the final result.The change may be pretty small, but we ought to believe that the miracle will definitely show up as long as you stick to your ideal goal.So when your ideal is disturbed by the reality, don’t let your original step be disturbed as well.Just follow your heart and be yourself.And I believe that you will finally achieve your goal in the near future.

第三篇：《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.

第四篇：《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 diverged 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.

第五篇：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.