伟大的盖茨比英文读后感

the great gatsby is ranked second in the modern library’s list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century, i got to know this brilliant work through japanese writer murakami haruki’s work norwegian?wood in which he spoke highly of it.

the main plot is that a young man named nick caraway, who came to new york city in spring of 1922. he became involved in the life of his neighbor at long island, jay gatsby, a very rich man, who entertained hundreds of guests at his party. gatsby revealed to nick, that he fell in love with nick's cousin daisy before the war. at that time he was poor. however, daisy married tom buchanan, a rich but boring man of good social position. gatsby lost daisy because he had no money, but he was still in love with her. he persuaded nick to bring him and daisy together again. "you can't repeat the past," nick said to him. gatsby tried to convince daisy to leave tom, who, in turn, revealed that gatsby has made his money from bootlegging. so they asked daisy whom she loved. daisy began to sob helplessly: “ i did love him once-but i loved you too.” daisy, driving gatsby's car, hit and killed tom's mistress, myrtle wilson, unaware of her identity. gatsby remained silent to protect daisy. tom told myrtle's husband wilson it was gatsby who killed his wife. wilson murdered gatsby and then committed suicide. nick was left to arrange gatsby's funeral, attended only gatsby's father and one former guest. nick returned to the his midwest home, reflecting on gatsby's dreams and the sad and cyclical nature of the past.?i think one of the clues is gatsby’s dream-get back his lost love, the text describes the whole?thought-provoking story with how to get his dream come true? and the failure of the dream?.the author described this story by heart for he held the same story himself. in fact, he was the main character gatsby. on the surface, the great gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. actually it is a story of the distorted american dream failing in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.?

i have searched the internet that hemingway once said that it was woman that had ruined f. scott fitzgerald. the woman who loved deeply by him is a beautiful lady named ginevra king. it seems that they have suffered the same condition in real life. ginevra’s father has warned gatsby, poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying rich girls, which hurt him so much. apparently, this is an usual thing in reality, almost everyday we can hear this kind of news. gossip journalists prefer the news about giants, especially some privacy and scandals. love seems is the big potato among them. we know so many love tragedies about stars who married the giant that i just can’t understand why there are so many people choose to marry a rich man like?moths?to a flame. daisy was a woman alike, i don’t think she was happy , maybe she was just adapted to a lavish life. this is a big question for every girl, mr. right should be a poor man who loves her or a playboy who owns a big fortune? love is an internal topic for everyone. gatsby’s story was a love tragedy, but it really reflected the general mood of society, material was much important than true feeling. in this money crazy modern times, many people make money from fraud, bribery, exploitation and smuggling. also in this material world, we are thirsty, worried and lost. however, we should keep ourselves in the rapidly changed world. above are my thoughts about the heroine’s experience. also it is no doubts that the book is a famous work with literary heft. some critics said that this work is an elegy of the jazz age. maybe it’s true, anyway it reflected the life in 19th 20s, and it’s really amazing.

了不起的盖茨比英文读后感

i have heard of the famous novel the great gatsby for many years. however, until recently have i got the time and mood to read it. as soon as i finish reading, i find my previous unwarranted assumption of it totally wrong.

this is a story about gatsby and his pursuit for the ‘american dreams’。 during the world war one, the poor soldier gatsby fell in love with an upper class girl named daisy. but due to the wide gap between them, daisy decided to marry tom, a man of her class, instead of gatsby. broken-hearted gatsby then held the conviction that money was of the greatest importance. he strongly believed in the ‘american dreams’， which as we all know, advocates that one can achieve whatever he or she likes through continuous efforts. he strived for five years to become a millionaire and bought a villa near daisy’s to attract her. he was too addicted to his fantasy to realize that daisy was no longer the lovely girl she used to be. eventually, he was killed because of her crime.

after reading it, something reverberates in my heart. i can’t help thinking of the theme fitzgerald trying to convey. one thing may be the lonely void of people’s spiritual world. i am deeply impressed by chapter 3, where a vivid description of a party is given. there were beautiful girls, drunk men, and boisterous crowds there, but none of them perceived the pointless of their lives and the barren of their minds. to see this phenomenon deeper, there were two circumstances underlying it. the first is the lack of dreams. some people, especially the people of the upper class, lived an aimless life. they wasted their time and money and took an indifferent attitude towards life. they chased for temporary ecstasy but lost their identity in eternity, namely daisy and tom. the second is the misleading of dreams. some others like gatsby, bravely pursued their dreams, yet going to a diverged way unconsciously. they might mix up the concept of a richer life and a happier life, viewing a higher social state and a peaceful fulfilled life as equality. unfortunately, when they were busy chasing their dreams, everything changed with time. when they were anxious about the to-gets, they ignored what they had already had and lost the alert to the constant changes. the excellent use of symbolization illustrates this idea perfectly. the imagery of ‘green light’ is the most important symble which occurred three times in the novel. the green-light’s obscure in the mist indicates the dim of gatsby’s dreams.

as far as i am concerned, this story can serve as a reminder for us. to live a meaningful life, we should carefully choose some dreams to pursue. and in the process of fulfilling our dreams, we should always be concious about what we really desire. anyhow, only by pursuing the proper dreams can we finally get to the deep springs of happiness.

了不起的盖茨比读后感英文

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the author has designed for the novel "the dual leading character" nick the carrow prestige. his importance is not inferior to the leading character gates ratio in many aspects. he not only is the story narration and commentary, also is in the novel a important personage. he both is having the very complicated relations with contradictory both sides. he is gates compared to neighbor and friend, also is the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red cousin, tom's schoolmate, but also is being in love black eyebrow coloring alizarin red good friend jordan.

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伟大的盖茨比读后感（一）

不知何时养了这一习惯，每每看完一本书总要写点什么。为这也没少听到反对的声音，当时很是懊恼了一会，心想我要写就写了，自己的事。可后来为了学业奔波，不由得笔下生疏，却发现原来以前认为很了不得的事不过尔尔。很多事情，不过痴人说梦罢了，倒不如趁早妥协，缴枪不杀，也好落个两全其美。

但我总是不死心，虽然看不清未来的路，却明白什么是自己不想的。然而看了《伟大的盖茨比》后， 我却有种一棒打醒的激灵，冷得直哆嗦。这本书是九月四号晚就看完的，拖拖拉拉到现在才提笔。初看的时候没觉得这本书有多好，能成为20世纪百部最佳英语小说第二名实在是匪夷所思。要我说，里面的主人公盖茨比简直傻透了，先是爱上一个拜金的女孩因为没钱被拒绝，然后拼命赚钱一跃成为美国爆发户想要和她鸳梦重圆。可是他明明知道这个早已嫁作人妇的女人满嘴都是金钱的声音，却还是忍不住用豪宅，用跑车来诱哄她，最后还莫名其妙的替这个女人顶了罪，被人一枪打死。送葬时除了小说里面的“我”，还有一个曾经在他家图书馆里逗留过的胖子，再无其他，同他生前大摆宴席时宾客满棚的场景实在是极大的反差。我还记得小说里写到一车车的橙子运来榨汁，劳斯莱斯跑车成了公共汽车从早晨九点直到深更半夜送往来宾，仿佛一场绮丽糜烂的梦，用金子打底。其实盖茨比悲惨的结局不难预料，用金钱换来的都是虚情假意，哪里做得了真。令人惊讶的是盖茨比早已看出端倪来了，却还是心甘情愿地往里跳。

小说里首先出现的就是托马斯·帕克·丹唯里埃的这么一段话：如果能让她心动，那就戴顶金帽子，如果你能跳得高，就为她也跳一跳，直到她高呼：“情郎，带金帽、跳得高的情郎，我非得把你要！”完全符合拜金女郎黛西的写照。这是一个塑造得很成功的形象——“她言语中却是充满了金钱味——这正是她声音抑扬顿挫的无穷魅力所在，金钱的叮当作响声，铙钹齐鸣的歌声……好像高高在上的白色王宫里，国王的女儿，黄金女郎……”。黛西这一词daisy，中文意思就是雏菊，一种黄色的小白花，象征着金钱和空虚。她第一次与盖茨比见面时穿的是白色的衣服，开的是白色的跑车，从表面上看是天真纯洁，也正是这种白衣飘飘的纯洁形象成为他追求一生、却又始终无法企及的梦想。实际上黛西内心空虚，灵魂充满着铜臭味。她虽然常着一袭白衣，却缀着铜纽扣，携带着一支小金笔。她的生活目标就是享乐，爱情自然也是建立在金钱之上的。她拒绝盖茨比后嫁给汤姆就是因为如此，后来见到盖茨比那些名贵的衬衫，竟然激动地把脸埋在衣服里哭起来，恐怕多半是后悔自己当初怎么没有嫁给盖茨比。浅薄、空虚、无知、冷漠、自私，这正是黛西的实质所在，实际上也恰恰是盖茨比悲剧的根源。事实上，黛西本身就是美国梦的象征，不仅代表了盖茨比的追求，更代表了整个“爵士时代”的精神面貌，以及资产阶级虚伪的价值观和道德标准。盖茨比内心深处对纯洁的黛西的向往化为支持他的精神支柱，然而残酷的现实再次给他以深深的打击。这就是为什么会有人把这本书称作是一阕华丽的“爵士时代”的挽歌，“最为动人的美国悲剧”。

至于书名说伟大的盖茨比，恕我愚笨，我还是没有读出来，只是觉得他不仅傻，而且可怜，他想要融入上流社会，凭着雄厚的经济实力办起了一次次的宴会，也算是一个风云人物。但是当他信以为真要去参加一个贵族的家庭晚宴兴冲冲的跑进里屋换身衣服出来时，迎接他的不过是绝尘而去的汽车罢了。小说是以“我”这个第三方的口吻来写的，里面还提到盖茨比努力的措辞试图挤出文邹邹的话来结果愈发显得笨拙。然而“我”在最后却忍不住对他看喊“他们全是混蛋，他们那帮混蛋加在一起也比不上你。”他们这里主要是指汤姆和黛西，“他们是不负责任的人——他们砸碎了东西，把别人给毁了，然后就退缩到自己的金钱或者麻木不仁，漫不经心当中，或者是任何吧他们维系在一起的东西当中，让别人去收拾他们留下的一堆烂摊子”。写到这里我不禁在想当我说盖茨比傻、可怜的时候是站在谁的立场上来讲的呢。盖茨比靠贩卖私酒囤积财富，手段是不怎么光彩，但那些黛西之流也干净不到那里去。资本来到这个世界，从头到脚，它的每一个毛孔，都流淌着血和肮脏。凭什么盖茨比要因为这一点而受到排斥呢？

要我说的话整部小说用一个词形容就是幻灭，盖茨比的悲剧就在于追求了错误的东西。那么我们所毕生追求的是不是从一开始也就是个错误呢？

伟大的盖茨比读后感（二）

他们是一帮混蛋，“我隔着草坪喊道，”他们那一大帮子都放在一堆还比不上你“

-----费茨杰拉德《了不起的盖茨比》

仅仅用”美国梦“的幻灭来形容这本书，显然是个令人遗憾的错误。华盛顿人费茨杰拉德在东部大城市漫长的生活经历，和西部青年的友谊和面对他们复杂的态度，使这本小说在庞大文学世界里，最清楚大线条的凸现了美国的性格。先生们，这不是《美国往事》里的黑帮庞杂而深具历史感的故事，他们是几个普通的美国青年。

从漫长的西海岸直达东部梦想之城，梦想者盖茨比身上具备着开拓者的野心和粗暴，像这个国家传统性格的一部分，他们钟情于带有掠夺性的建设。只是盖茨比的路线与他那些善于冒险的祖先相反：大战后的东部代表了人生能享受的一切，以及年轻人施展一切追逐能力的地方。残忍和战乱的历史背景，最先造就的是军事家和冒险家。所以盖茨比他们必须到中部或者东部，去追逐和享受世界赐予人类的美酒和女人。然而服役归来的盖茨比贫困潦倒，心爱的姑娘整日在别人的怀抱中。农村青年盖茨比内心的自卑和自尊正在严酷的同时增长，而虚荣的人类天性在遇到适当的机会时，会演变为巨大的奋斗能量。这一切人物的内心和经历都易于理解，复杂的是他们所处的世界，世界复杂是因为它显得冷漠而残酷；但是如果你身处一个高点，那么这一切都会变得可爱。

费茨杰拉德从暴发户盖茨比开始他的故事，这个暴发户慷慨的周周举行盛大的晚会，社会名流们闻声而来，而盖茨比则毫不起眼的在某个角落等待心爱女人的来临。在最后，自卑者盖茨比、暴发户盖茨比、孤独者盖茨比，像莱蒙托夫的俄罗斯人一样，以失败的决斗了此一生。生后无人送行，众人唾沫对他。灿烂的华宴散去，豪宅荒草重生，回归冷漠和寂静。

相对于前辈霍桑或者亨利。詹姆斯，费茨杰拉德是土包子一个，在他眼中，或许没有什么比美国本土的学校糟糕了。因此霍桑以其迷人而丰富的笔调写他的故乡英格兰，亨利。詹姆斯在旧世界和新世界交替的时候，像一个欧洲哲学家那样深刻的描写美国人，而海明威这头危险的公牛则把美国的迷惘带到世界公民群体”垮掉的一代“中修炼，然后写成整个人类的迷惘。这其中只有杰拉德是如此单纯：他面向西部青年和东部青年们同一个梦想，他看着他们毫无诗意的放纵和狂欢，目睹美国生命的灿烂和黯淡，他没有牛人遍地的牛津和剑桥，他只有普林斯顿的蹩脚教授。

所以南方人爱墨生热爱这个纯种美国作家，而才华横溢者如福克纳则态度相反。相比杰拉德，诗人惠特曼比他更好更豪迈的写出了美国，马克。土温比他更准确的捕捉了美国幽默下的辛酸血泪， 欧。亨利则比他遭遇更多，比他更丰富的刻画美国。费茨杰拉德的平庸由此可见，然而，这个人，他写了一个时代。

那个时代和今天的中国如此相像：虚荣、金钱、权力，以及非法的商业操作，欲望在灯火辉煌中毫无保留的释放，人们整日谈论名流和名牌，没有哲学、诗歌和真正的学校。这个时代和那个时代，最赤裸的映照了人性，然而却无人把人性写得更加动人，缺少真正的精神牵引：人人如此，无从对照。

也因此，《了不起的盖茨比》的动人之处，在于它简简单单的故事，普通的人物，和诚实。它没有虚荣的去描写更波澜壮阔的人群，没有担负历史感的写作，这样单纯的故事环境，恰当的刻画了虚荣和其中的人性。当我们目睹暴发户盖茨比一遍遍的问自己是否成功，是否值得信赖，而他成为暴发户的目的单纯到仅仅因为要夺回心爱的女人，这时候华盛顿人费茨杰拉德终于坚定站在盖茨比这一边，相比起那些生活光鲜而内心空洞冷漠的名流，西部农民盖茨比的自我发问和单纯令人温暖而坚定，带来希望，因为他完成了自己的梦，并曾慷慨的与众人分享他的梦。

伟大的盖茨比读后感（三）

对于一个女人来说，什么才是真正的幸福？()是一个家财万贯却彼此没有感情的丈夫，还是一个相爱却身无分文的穷小子？ 黛西，一个因为依赖而失去爱情，失去尊严，被两个占用欲强烈的男人玩弄于股掌之中的女人，可怜，可悲。所以，答案是独立、尊严和坚持。没有这个前提，再高贵的女人也只能永远跪着。

黛西是爱盖茨比的，曾经。可惜爱如蝉翼。她为他半夜出逃，忍受世人无尽肤浅的指责，甚至在结婚前一天还酩酊大醉，扔掉结婚戒指，可惜，生活对她不是偶像剧。独立，然后挣钱持家，仅仅为了爱情，为了眼神相触时深深的吸引，不，她没有勇气下赌注。于是以一生的幸福作为代价。她妥协了，满足了第一个男人汤姆的占有欲。汤姆，自私，粗俗，虚伪，喜新厌旧，可是他有钱，有名望，更难得的是他需要一个会充场面的漂亮的妻子。于是她成功地嫁给了汤姆。一步错，步步错。为了钱，失去了主动权，她忍受丈夫的外遇而若无其事，她变得做作，连声音也充满了金钱味，五年让她由于妥协渐渐失去了自尊。这时痴心依旧的盖茨比突然出现了。他费尽心思安排自己与黛西”偶然“再遇，带她参观自己奢华的别墅，一切的一切只是为了让破灭的”美国梦“在黛西后悔和震惊的眼泪里得到延续，面对这个曾经相爱现在又富可敌国的男人黛西动摇了。就此，黛西被了两个男人同时控制。尼克说：你不可以要求她太多。人生最可悲的是经不住时间的磋磨，包括良知。盖茨比爱她，可是她最爱的只有她自己，正如她当初放弃盖茨比一样。这一次她撞死了茉尔莉之后，让盖茨比顶了罪自己去却在汤姆的怂恿下逃走了。那么以后呢，以后汤姆会用更严酷的手段对付她，无论是感情，权利还是家产，现在他握有更致命的把柄：别忘了你是一个杀人犯！！

假如黛西独立，坚持，她不会嫁给她不爱的男人，她不会为了讨好他不断堕落，一步一步失去自我。想到当今社会愈演愈烈的小三问题。为了一个富裕的半老头放弃一个真正爱自己的男朋友，然后奴颜婢膝，为了钱用尽各种媚态、各种手段，到头来新鲜感一过，面临被唾弃又捞不到钱的局面，一切都是自己的愚蠢、依赖、贪欲造成的。

一个女人，面对的战争，从来不会是群芳争艳，也不是如何靠美貌和手段弄到更多男人的钱，而是在时间的磋磨下仍有勇气独立，坚守，做纯粹自己。那么无论是嫁入豪门还是门衰祚薄都没有区别，因为一直以来我都只是以自己的方式走在自己的路上。我可以凭我自己的独立撑起我的事业，坚守我的爱情，保留原汁原味的自己，虽然风险更大，更艰辛，更曲折，但是这才是人生，不是嘛？

我在这里强调啊：这是阅读课作业《伟大的盖茨比》读后感，本人不会这么积极主动写评论的。虽然本来要翻成英文的，但是，嘿嘿，你们懂得，我的翻译能力……感觉还是发表中文的正常点。还有，本文只是站在黛西的立场以女性的角度阐明观点，虽然小说情节包含许多偶然性，黛西很多地方也很无辜，但我说的只是人生选择，没有偏激地痛恨她的意思噢，呵呵！