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ve and mirage ―dream‖ doomed to fail. During those years, people did not care about other‘s feeling, even if the one was his or her relative. In the novel Fitzgerald vividly described the relation between people and people and this relationship was the reflection and refraction of the roaring twenties‘ life. Because there were Tom and Daisy who stood for the upper class, Gatsby‘s would not success for the upper class was cold and cruel. Gatsby was the incarnation of his idealistic ―American Dream‖ and he did every thing to realize his unpractical ideal. He was great although his dream was failed at last and he was killed eventually pared to the cold and cruel Tom, Daisy, and all the follies. His perseverance of achieving his dream was great, his unswervingly love for Daisy was great, his kindness for his guests was great, and his filial piety for his father was great. ―Gatsby was worth to sympathize with, and his life was beginning with a dream and ended with a dream. Gatsby‘s tragedy reflected a main contradiction that was the contradiction between ideal and reality. Gatsby and Tom stood for the two main powersone was the idealism which broke away from the reality, the other was extremely crude pragmatism.‖(娜仁花 ) It showed Gatsby‘s greatness by describing Tom‘s meanness. Even if Gatsby and his dream were lost he was still great for his doings. References: [1] Fitzgerald, , This Side of Paradise [M], Penguin Classics, 1930 [2] Fitzgerald , The Crack Up [M], Wilson, Edmund New Directions, 1945 [3] Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby [M], Peking: Foreign Language Press, 2020 [4] Bruccoli, Mattew, New Essays on The Gatsby [M], Peking: Peking University Press, 2020 [5] Bruccoli, Mattew, Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, New York: Simon amp。 old men pushing young girls backwards in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, and keeping in the corner, many young girls dancing individually or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps. With the dancing continuing, the hilarity was upsurged. They came all the summer to do these. However, when Gatsby died no one came to see Gatsby。 instead, she and her husband Tom told Gee that it was Gatsby who killed Myrtle. After Gatsby went back home, she did not call him and she did not visit him as well after Gatsby‘s death. All she concerned was her luxurious life. Daisy had a daughter but their relationship was not mother and daughter. Pammy just liked a toy which was brought when its master needed it. She did not love her daughter but funny. She convinced Gatsby that she would go with him, but she still cared Tom‘s wealth and status and she knew that she still need them when she knew that Gatsby was not belonged to her social class. As far as Daisy was concerned, moral, responsibility, and obligation did not exist in the world. To sum up, Daisy only cared about herself without taking other people into consideration. She could desert anyone in order to protect herself. Daisy’s desire for material and money, and her empty spirit Daisy and Gatsby fell in love with each other。 the version remained an ideal and the standard from which criticism and judgments could be made. However, WWI shattered this version. It ended once and for all the faith in individual effort that had been eroding since the Revolution and had persisted –sometimes naively and sometimes defensivelyin the fiction in this period. As Mark Schorer had pointed out, disillusionment with the American system and the efficacy of individual effort was the distinguishing characteristic of postwar American writing. “ The rootlessness of postwar American society, its restless alienation, and its consequent reliance on money were regarded as a code for expressing emotions and identity.‖(Brueccoli,p46) 3 The analysis of Gatsby’s greatness Gatsby was a man who spared no efforts to achieve his dreamDaisy and his love. In order to realize it, he changed his name first and then made money by bootlegging. However, he did not get what he wanted and his dream failed. Finally, he was murdered by a man whose wife was killed by Daisy. Though he was dead his persistence was worth to be learned by us. From the idealism he idealized his ―American Dream‖ and his life, and he lived in a life he imaged. Thus, his dream doomed to failure, but his courage and persistence were great. Gatsby’s courage and persistence Gatsby was pletely a man who tried his best to promote his social status from a lower class to higher class. His perseverance, courage and efforts made him get numerous money and stride into the higher class. ―The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standardit was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby‘s mansion.‖( Fitzgerald,p9) From these words, we can speculate his efforts of being a rich man. He fell in love with Daisy when he was a lieutenant and he wanted to get married with her. However, he joined the army oversea to fight. In the army, he wrote letters to Daisy to keep touch with each other. After he knew that Daisy was married to Tom who was very rich he intended to obtain Daisy again. Thus, he came back to Daisy‘s hometown to get some information of Daisy. For five years he inquired about her, and he also did some business to make money to attract Daisy to him. His courage and willpower for Daisy was great though he was failed at last. In order to get money, he changed his name first and then inherited money from Cody. ―James Gatzthat was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it a