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large cities of the East. But, gradually, Fitzgerald was aware of that wealth destroyed his life, rather than helped him achieve the dream. He died from the irregular life and the alcoholism. So does Gatsby. After a long time waiting, Gatsby is killed by George’s gun.Gatsby bees lovestricken. He devotes his entire life to winning the elusive love, despite realizing at the end that reaching his goal was unachievable. Fitzgerald had the same dream as Gatsby, and also yearned to join the ranks of the upper class and accordingly obtain the love that had escaped him. Unfortunately, they have the hopelessness and despair oute.Obviously, Gatsby represents one part of Fitzgerald’s personality: the flashy celebrity who pursued and glorified wealth in order to impress the woman he loved.V. ConclusionAlthough Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan, the major male characters in The Great Gatsby, have different backgrounds, experiences and endings, the metamorphic American dream has the same negative effect on them. The Great Gatsby shows the three characters’ dissatisfaction and disappointment to the current society. The American dream of happiness, vitality and individualism bee subordinated to the amoral pursuit of wealth. However, Gatsby’s dream, especially, questions the idea of an American that nothing is impossible if one simply tries hard enough, while Tom’s dream is to pursue wealth only through prestige rather than hard working. Besides Daisy, the main heroine, is the impulse of the whole novel and an impetus to the development of the story. By means of her different relationships with the 3 male characters, the readers can realize the male characters’ contradictory characters is loyal but unrealistic, Nick is sober but emotional, and Tom is rude but gentle. Besides, Fitzgerald uses fiction to tell his own story——reflecting on the superior and brutal qualities of the rich and on the impossibility of being one of them. And, through the above analysis, it can be found that Gatsby shows Fitzgerald’s diligence and loyalty. Nick demonstrates Fitzgerald’s sober and reflective image. Tom illuminates Fitzgerald’s greed and degeneration. All of them stand for Fitzgerald in the different time and places. They are 3 different kinds of “Fitzgerald”.Works Cited[1] Anderson, , The Fitzgerald Revival, 19401974[M]. Dissertation: University of South Carolina, 1974[2] Alberto Lena. Deceitful Traces of Power: An Analysis of the Decadence of Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby[J]. Canadian Review of American Studies, 1998.[3] Bloom. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby[M]. New York: Chelsea, 1991.[4] Bruccoli. New Essays on The Great Gatsby[M]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.[5]吳建國. 菲茨杰拉德研究[M]. 上海. 上海外語教育出版社, 2002 專業(yè)整理分享