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Several days ago, we watched a movie called the great Gatsby. It is based on the original novel with the same name. It shows us the American dream and the falling of the American dream. It impressed me so much.
It is not only a great work, but an insight into the flaws of real life ring the “Roaring Twenties”. And it has been considered by many a symbol for the “Jazz Age”, a time of extraordinary wealth and promise, but the movie gives us more than that, presenting the truth behind the twenties. The movie gives us unforgettable characters and events on one, as well as referring to the problems of American wealth and spirituality on another.
The story happened in the so called “jazz age”, when it was filled with cheerful music and desire. All of an accident, a poor guy, Nick, walked into a rich man, Gatsby’s life who always squandered his money and everything. After Nick left his hometown for London, he lived next to Gatsby. Every night, there was a wonderful party. Because of this, Nick and Gatsby was acquainted with each other. That’s the way the story began.
Nick found that Gatsby was not just the man he saw in daily life. In his deepest heart, there was something else. It is just about a girl whose name is Daisy. What exceeded my expectation is that Daisy is also the cousin of Nick.
Dating back to five years ago, the two young people loved each other so much. However, Daisy came from a rich family, while Gatsby was a poor second lieutenant. When the First World War happened, Gatsby was sent to Europe. And as a result, they got apart and when Gatsby came from the field, Daisy married a rich man called Tom. Gatsby was so sad. In his mind, he believed that what made Daisy violate her mind is money, so he made up his mind to hunt for fortune.
Five years later, when Gatsby was back with the fortune through bootlegging and met Daisy through his neighbor, also Daisy’s cousin, Nick. Even she lived a wealthy life, Daisy didn’t enjoy her life because his husband Tom had a mistress. Disappointed with her marriage, Daisy turned to Gatsby. Jealously Tom tried to get Daisy back by hook or by crook because he thought that their love had come to a happy ending. Daisy turned to Gatsby just because of loneliness, so she didn’t gave Gatsby her whole heart. Even Gatsby had known something about this, he just wanted to stay in his wonderful dream. When he realized this, it was too late.
The story turned to a high tide once Daisy was so annoyed and made a car accident. What’s worse, the victim is Tom’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson. In order to protect Daisy, Gatsby took on the responsibility. But at this moment, Daisy had already made up her mind to discard Gatsby. Misled by Tom, Wilson’s husband shot Gatsby in revenge for his wife, Gatsby died. He didn’t even find the ridiculing smile. Nick was left to arrange Gatsby’s funeral. Only Gatsby's father and one former guest attended the funeral. Nick returned to his Midwest home, reflecting on Gatsby's dreams and the sad and cyclical nature of the past.
What impressed me a lot is the last sentence said by Nick, “You can’t repeat the past.” Imagine being lost into a relationship where you could not truly show your love for someone e to their prior engagement. Now think of that same relationship if it were mostly non-existent and just remained a figment of what could happen. Gatsby wanted to stay in his own world with Daisy, happy and forever, just like prince and princess. In Gatsby’s mind, Daisy is the purest goddess and Daisy is his everything. He did what he could just to see a smile and acceptance. In some hidden meaning, Gatsby’s love for Daisy had driven him to all three and maybe even a quarter of madness. His passion for Daisy sparked a relationship that could have been, but his willingness to get her back perhaps is what completely develops the focus point of the story thus calling for a symbol of ironic love in the hands of fortune.
“You can’t repeat the past.” Maybe the past was full of happiness and sweet, you missed the time so much; or maybe you’d done something wrong to your love, your family or your friend, you still cared a lot about it. No matter what it was in the past, it had already gone. What we should keep in my mind is that we should cherish what we have now and have a positive attitude towards future. We know that everyone has only one life, so just manage your life enjoyably and peacefully.

Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night.

Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was ecated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray instrial mping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose.

As the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smile, and calls everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair.

After a short time, Tom grows increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her. Though Tom is himself involved in an extramarital affair, he is deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful to him. He forces the group to drive into New York City, where he confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom asserts that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announces to his wife that Gatsby is a criminal—his fortune comes from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realizes that her allegiance is to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sends her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt him.

When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby’s car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intends to take the blame. The next day, Tom tells Myrtle’s husband, George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car. George, who has leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover, finds Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead. He then fatally shoots himself.

Nick stages a small funeral for Gatsby, ends his relationship with Jordan, and moves back to the Midwest to escape the disgust he feels for the people surrounding Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and indivialism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby’s power to transform his dreams into reality is what makes him “great,” Nick reflects that the era of dreaming—both Gatsby’s dream and the American dream—is over.

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