【正文】 tion that ―it was full of fruits rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers‖ here and there. Gatsby could not build his hope future on the basis of cruel reality. He uniquely recalled the past, only to make the past illusion take place of the reality and future. He could not face squarely the reality of uniting the past with the future in the realistic environment. These reflect the essence of Gatsby‘s dream. II. Ideal Personification: Unworthy of Name Gatsby‘ ideal personification in his mind is Daisy, because she was just a beautiful woman and the Gatsby‘s first lover. Surely, he loved her very much。 美國(guó)夢(mèng) 。爵士樂(lè)時(shí)代的人蔑視一切傳統(tǒng)的價(jià)值觀念，反叛老一輩人所遵從的道德風(fēng)范。 tragedy。 the American dream。 菲茨杰拉德曾這樣總結(jié)那個(gè)時(shí)代的特點(diǎn)：一切神明都統(tǒng)統(tǒng)死光，所有戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)都已經(jīng)統(tǒng)統(tǒng)打完，所有信念都已經(jīng)統(tǒng)統(tǒng)完蛋。 關(guān)鍵詞 蓋茨比 。 however, when he was borne back ceaselessly into the past, he made efforts for exploring various possibility in the future. To some extent, Gatsby‘s love to Daisy reflected his wonderful memory of the past. Four years before, he realized her and then loved her. It was deeply engraved on his mind of original love. In the long time, to the love of missing Daisy, Gatsby memorized that Daisy fantastically became a beautiful miracle story in his mind, a historical event with wonderful experiences and a fairy maiden in a mysterious Vail. He desired to make the historical past transform to the future with same historical meaning through his own persistent efforts. And this green light representing his good ideal echoed with a fresh green breast of the world mutually at the end of this novel, which made Gatsby‘s experiences indicate the whole America‘s ones。 whereas, owing to Daisy‘s betrayal, his death was innocent, and it was Gatsby‘s tragedy that he was surrendered by his own ideal Daisy and paid too high cost for his empty dream. III. Potential Destructiveness in Gatsby‘s Characters The inevitability of Gatsby‘s tragedy was related to the potential destructiveness in his character, namely, some factors in his character caused his life and ideals destroyed. A. Obstinate Character Gatsby was the believer and follower of American Dream who thought the opportunity was equal to everyone in the society and fantasized to prompt into upper class society like Daisy. Nevertheless, the upper class society which represented by Daisy and Tom never put up with Gatsby as well as his being. Tom was very proud selfish and cruel, lacking essential virtues and moralities. In his eyes, he could never abide by sharing the privilege which the noble people only owned and shared with Gatsby together. No matter who is he? If he dared to talk about the equality, he must die of it. Therefore, though Gatsby made a ladder to the fairyland in people‘s mind by his illegal wealth, he could not take a place and space in the upper class society and equally share the magic and milk. However rich he was, however his name and luxurious cars he exchanged, he was still an unimportant person who came from the low class society, consequently, he was always attacked and squeezed out. Gatsby would not accept the fact he never did it but Gatsby still struggled for his dream repeating the past with Daisy and got rich by hook or crook, especially by illegal methods. So he was obstinate in his mind, actually, he was not stupid but foolish. Doubtlessly, it is inevitable that his American Dream was disillusioned. B. Foolish Character Actually, Gatsby is a real foolish gentleman, because he fantasized about getting a pure love, and thought of a worldly beauty as the symbol of perfect ideal. In order to get his ideal love, Gatsby struggled his feet from the low class society and devoted himself to Daisy. He innocently believed that as long as he got rich, he could repeat the past with Daisy. Different from other people in Jazz Age, Gatsby was a pure romantic gentleman. ―Gatsby bought that mansion so that Daisy would bi just across the bay.‖ (Fitzgerald, 2021: 93) Although Daisy once returned to his body, he could not satisfy it. What he wanted to get was not that he endowed with great charm, but that he wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ―I never love you. After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to go back to Louisville and be married from her house— just as if it were five years ago.‖ (Fitzgerald, 2021: 130) However, the essence of Daisy decided that the dream of Gatsby‘s pure love was inevitably disillusioned. C. Ignorance In fact, Gatsby was serious ignorance of the upper class society for he did not recognize the essence of the upper class society clearly: For Gatsby, the realistic background of Daisy‘s family and her social intercourse actually became a kind of ideal symbol that is beyond reality and agreement with the myth circumstances. As an unknown and penniless man, Gatsby was just beyond reach, so he spent all his energy struggling for and weaving his ideal and dream, so that he could not see through the hypocrisy and the ugliness hidden in beauty and luxury. While he was alive, he constantly held tremendous feasts and had an endless stream of visitors. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and champagne and the stars, but after he was dead, no telephone message arrived, but the butler went without his sleep and waited for it until four o‘clock—until ling after there was any one to give it to if it came. On Gatsby‘s funeral ceremony, ―about five o‘clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate—first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the postman from West Egg ,‖ what‘s worse, ―I could only remember, without resent, that Daisy hadn‘t sent a message or a flower.‖ (Fitzgerald, 2021: 208) Daisy went far away with his husband