【正文】 of getting Daisy. No matter what he did he was always looked at with disdain by the rich society. He was considered a phony wannabe and was never accepted into the society that he coveted. His pursuit of Daisy eventually led to his downfall and death. Even in death the socialites who once attended his many parties ignored Gatsby. Only a few bothered to attend his funeral. Gatsby was murdered by the very lifestyle he so badly wanted. Ⅲ . Reasons of Gatsby’s tragic roots The disillusionment of Gatsby’ s American Dream is also the Gatsby’ s tragic roots, which is caused by class differences, Daisy’ s moral characters and Gatsby’ s illegal activities. Class differences In the Roaring Twenties, people from all the social classes suddenly became aware of the class differences. It was evident that the social classes were clearly divided by location, amount of material possessions and the way one person acts. Fitzgerald illustrates these class differences in the 1920’ s in The Great Gatsby by introducing to us different characters of different social classes and distinctly describes them in the way they act belonging to that of one class. Fitzgerald also introduces to us a setting that was designed to show these class differences by placing them in different locations with a basic layout. Characters such as the Buchanans, Gatsby and the Wilsons are all examples of how Fitzgerald lays it out for the reader to pick up and the novel surely shows how they conflict over these class differences. The setting in The Great Gatsby is used mainly to illustrate the 。s garage for gas he flaunts Gatsby39。 Tom only interacts with his mistress in the city, and Gatsby only sees Meyer Wolfsheim there. They both use the city to hide their goingson from the people they value on Long Island. Nick Carraway, the narrator, is a young bachelor from a patrician Midwestern family, who graduates from Yale in 1915. After fighting in World War I, he returns to the Midwest before settling in New York City to learn the bond business. Despite his wealthy upbringing, Nick lives modestly. Nick explains that in 1922 he rented a small bungalow between two mansions in West Egg, a wealthy munity on Long Island Sound. Across the bay was East Egg, inhabited by the old aristocracy, including Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is Nick’ s second cousin once removed and Nick knew of Tom, a football player at New Haven. Nick describes the Buchanans in a visit to their East Egg mansion, although phenomenally wealthy Tom’ s glory days are behind him, he is a dilettante. Daisy, although engaging and attractive, is pampered and superficial, largely ignoring her threeyearold daughter. Daisy’ s friend Jordan Baker, a wellknown female golfer, shows an interest in Nick and tells him that Tom has a mistress in New York City. One day Tom and Nick take a train ride together to New York and on the way they stop at a shabby garage owned by Gee Wilson, where Nick is introduced to the owner’ s wife, Myrtle (Tom’ s mistress). Nick acpanies Tom and Myrtle to their Manhattan lovenest, where Myrtle presides over a pretentious party that includes her sister and several others. Nick learns that Tom and Myrtle began their affair following a chance encounter on a train. Though he finds the evening increasingly unbearable, he does not leave until Tom slaps Myrtle for speaking Daisy’ s name, which breaks her nose. Nick learns that his nextdoor neighbor, who throws lavish parties for hundreds of people, is the wealthy and mysterious Jay Gatsby. Nick receives an invitation one weekend and attends, finding the party wild and fun. He discovers the guests do not know much about Gatsby and that rumors about the man are contradictory. Nick runs into Jordan Baker, who invites him to join her. While looking for Gatsby, they run into a man with large Owl Eye glasses admiring Gatsby’ s collection of books. Later, a man strikes up a conversation with Nick, claiming to recognize him from the US Army’ s Third Infantry Division. Nick mentions his difficulty in finding the host and the man reveals himself to be Gatsby. An odd yet close friendship between Nick and Gatsby begins. One day, Gatsby takes Nick to New York City for lunch. Gatsby presents a clich233。 there he met the gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, with whom he would spend the rest of his life. He told the story of his downward slide in The CrackUp, published posthumously in 1945. His last work, the Hollywood novel The Last Tycoon (1941), was left unfinished at his death at 44 of alcoholrelated causes. An introducation of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s favorite novel, also a most obvious sign that his thought and style became mature. With strict designing of structure and special narrator, Fitzgerald expressed the motif of the disillusion of “American Dream”. By the standard of both art and profundity, the novel is the best works of Fitzgerald. The story is set in New York City and on Long Island, in two areas known as West Egg and East Egg. The story is set in the early 1920s, just after World War I, during Prohibition, a time period that outlawed the manufacture, sale, or consumption of alcoholic beverages. This is significant not only because Gatsby’ s illgotten wealth is apparently due to bootlegging, but also because alcohol is conspicuously available, despite being illegal, throughout the novel. Indeed, the characters are seen drinking expensive champagnesuggesting that the wealthy are not at all affected by these laws. The social setting is among wealthy, educated people, those with a good deal of leisure time and little concern about people who are not in their social milieu. 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