What's good about the novel The Great Gatsby?

I haven't read the novel, but I have seen the movie, which is quite meaningful.

The film is set in the United States in the 1920s. At that time, the American economy took off, especially the financial industry was unprecedentedly developed, the Dow Jones index soared again and again, and the economy entered an unprecedented bubble and flashy era. High flyers Nick, who graduated from Yale, was also deeply influenced by it, so he decided to give up literature and finance to join this trend. The camera turned to the seaside, and the bright sunshine and the laughter of the swimsuit girl made young Nick yearn for it. Nick went to visit his distant relative Tom, a rich boy, who wanted to make a big splash in finance and shopping malls. Tom was ecstatic when he saw Nick, and kept showing off his brilliant polo career. In the luxurious living room, the heroine Daisy, Tom's wife and golfer Miss Baker appeared, and the plot began.

Daisy is like a silly elder sister who is empty and beautiful, and is a typical emotional girl who has no opinion. On the contrary, Baker is a sophisticated woman who shows an indomitable arrogance towards Nick's kindness. The dining table is a scene that all directors who want to express the contradictions of characters in the plot will never let go. Writer Nick likes to talk about the countryside and crops. He is a typical simple literary youth. Daisy likes gossip. For her, a woman living in this world should be silly and obsessed with a man. This is the life and happiness that a woman should pursue. As Daisy said after dinner, she hopes her daughter is also a stupid woman, a beautiful little fool, but Daisy is not a completely stupid woman. She knows that her husband has a mistress outside. The telephone rang. It was from the garage. Daisy's face changed. She knew that it was her husband's mistress on the other end of the phone. When the daughter was born, her husband was not around, and she knew that her husband was going outside to accompany Xiaosan. Daisy is also a woman who longs for love. She is anxious and empty, and wants someone to accompany her, so she wants Nick to stay with her while her husband and mistress are on the phone. Baker likes to talk nonsense, which shows that she is good at socializing and is a woman with full social skills. Every time Nick makes a mistake, she can stop it accurately. Daisy's husband Tom is a rich man with serious ideas about race and class. He believes that humanism is out of date and that society should be ruled by the upper people who enslave the lower people. A dinner party shows the different personalities of four different characters and the contradictions between them.

Nick and Tom passed a mining area on the outskirts of new york by train. Mineral energy is the lifeblood of national economic development. When Tom jumped off the train eagerly, I think as a rich man, he must have thought of some investment plans. Who knows that he went straight to a garage on the edge of the mining area, and his eyes glanced up from time to time. It turns out that this guy just came to see his coquettish mistress. Then there's a slutty party. Tom is not only addicted to it, but also wants to drag Nick into it. But Nick is an authentic writer in his bones, a literati with humanistic feelings. He stood at the window, looking at the street, looking at another self in the corner. Nick felt that he was wandering inside and outside this glitz. He is inside, but from time to time he jumps out and looks at the world with a bystander's eyes.

Nick is the only one who has been invited to Gatsby's party. I think one of the reasons Gatsby invited him is because of his curiosity and affection for Nick, because in new york, a big city full of money, everyone pursues material comforts, but whenever he goes back to the idyllic villa to rest, he can always see his neighbor Nick sitting on a wooden chair at the door of his hut, away from the glitz and noise, or reading a book. Gatsby thought maybe nick.

A residence party should have been invited, but countless people came to climb the relationship with Gatsby and came uninvited. On the contrary, Nick who received the invitation became an awkward freak. People at the party are talking about Gatsby, and all kinds of anecdotes and legends are endless. It seems that everyone who comes to the party has a special relationship with Gatsby, but when Gatsby walks through the crowd, no one recognizes him until he reveals himself to Nick. Miss Baker, a sociable socialite, hit the nail on the head: in such a big party, everyone can protect their privacy, but those small parties will have no privacy at all. I don't need this feeling. In today's society, many people go to various large-scale social gatherings. At the party, it seems that everyone is very close, but in fact it is just a high-sounding thing. On the contrary, friends have a rest in the afternoon without much noise and revelry. Only in silence can they show their intimacy and feelings. What kind of people will have what kind of friends and what kind of luck they will encounter. At the party, Baker wandered between various men and social circles, while Nick was in a daze. After the party, the former left in another man's car, perhaps seeking excitement, and the latter was favored by Gatsby, and the only sincere friendship left in a movie began.

Gatsby never cared about all kinds of gossip about him, but in Gatsby's speeding yellow sports car, he asked Nick what he thought of them. The car was stopped by the strict traffic police for speeding, but when the other party knew that Gatsby was the famous rich man in the car, they immediately had a good attitude and were ready to climb the relationship. I was deeply moved by the next scene. The sports car crossed the bridge in Queens. As Nick said, anything can happen in this city, even the unreliable rumors like Gatsby. Yes, America is a place where dreams come true. How many children from poor families and how many immigrants with dreams came to this country. They crossed the ocean, just like Gatsby and Nick crossed the bridge. They all have a grand American dream like Nick and Gatsby.

Next, they went to an underground pub where real politicians, businessmen and financiers colluded with each other. Nick, a Wall Street man, is naturally favored and full of dirty deals. Gatsby can't live without it. Of course, Tom is one of the guests here, so on such occasions, the contradiction between the characters in the film began to be uncovered. Baker, a social butterfly, certainly knows everything. She told Nick that Gatsby actually met Tom's wife Daisy five years ago and fell in love with each other. However, due to the needs of the European War, Gatsby, as a young officer, had to go to the front and lost contact with Daisy, so Daisy married Tom, a wealthy businessman. Gatsby came back this time to save Daisy. Nick met Gatsby in Gatsby's Woods. Gatsby was really surprised when he learned that Nick was willing to help him get to know Daisy only for the help of his friends, and he further confirmed that Nick was different and a friend worth making, and Nick became Gatsby's only friend in this movie. It is not easy to find a true friend in such a society where interests are paramount.

Then he bought flowers to decorate the garden and living room. When everything was ready, Gatsby waited anxiously for Daisy, the goddess he hadn't seen for nearly five years but missed for five years. Seeing the goddess of dreams for the first time after many years is naturally embarrassing and exciting, and then everything goes naturally. Gatsby is personable, romantic and rich. He is willing to go out to sea to take pictures with Daisy, throw clothes and cloth together, and go crazy together. He is willing to share everything with Daisy. There is no denying that Daisy once loved Gatsby, even now, but I think Daisy is willing to be with Gatsby at this moment, which I believe is very rewarding, because Daisy is really a.

This is another Gatsby weekend party. At the party, Gatsby, Tom and Tom's wife, Gatsby's lover Daisy met. When Gatsby sarcastically said that Tom was a polo player, Tom was not as proud as he was before the film started, but immediately looked embarrassed. This society, sports and culture are inferior. Only by showing your commercial value can you succeed and find more profitable business opportunities at the party. At the party, Daisy met Gatsby in a small forest behind her husband's back. After a while of intimacy, Daisy offered to elope with Gatsby, but Gatsby refused. Perhaps Gatsby should not refuse Daisy from the perspective of love, but Gatsby's love is a microcosm of the American dream. In the United States in the 1920s, children from countless poor families struggled hard to change their fate, gain fame and status. The most important thing is to get social respect. Only with these can we truly respect love, and Gatsby is one of these poor children. As Gatsby said, for Daisy, a rich girl, and the goddess of this dream, Gatsby spent so much effort to build all this, realizing her American dream and winning people's respect. This is part of his American dream. A girl like Daisy was born in a superior environment. But Gatsby doesn't understand that what he missed is hard to get back. He wants to go back to the past, to the moment when he met Daisy, and let everything start again.

It's finally time to make a final decision. At the dinner table again, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Baker and Nick sit together. A storm is coming. At the dinner table, Gatsby asked Daisy to tell Tom that she didn't love him. But Daisy got cold feet. In the luxurious room of the town hotel, Gatsby once again asked Daisy to tell Tom that she didn't love him. Daisy still can't say it. Gatsby loves Daisy, but he doesn't know Daisy. Daisy is the kind of woman who is very emotional and lacks independence. She would rather be a stupid woman all her life and be attached to a man, even if he had an affair, she would submit to humiliation. I think Daisy's personality is related to the education of women in many traditional aristocratic families with serious hierarchical concepts, so even if Daisy is obsessed with her love and romance with Gatsby, she can't stand up and break through the shackles of the family. At this point, Tom knows more about upper-class women like Daisy than Gatsby, who is a young man with an American dream. As he said, he and Daisy are the same kind of people, a world person, but Gatsby is not. So he just angered Gatsby and overwhelmed Gatsby. As for Daisy, whether to leave or stay, even if she left the hotel room with Gatsby, she didn't care, let alone pursue it. Even Liao was interested in celebrating Nick's birthday, because he knew that a woman like Daisy would come back sooner or later if she got into trouble. At the height of the quarrel between Tom and Gatsby, Daisy did not express her thoughts, but quickly held Nick's hand nervously, looking for support and protection. She would rather be a stupid woman who is opinionated, protected and loved, and attach her fate to the men around her. In this scene, Gatsby was so calm that he was angered and out of control at first, which seemed abrupt, but in fact it was inevitable, because his pursuit of life was purely based on flashy materials and was recognized by the people in the upper class. Once this foundation is shaken, his self-esteem will inevitably collapse, and the treacherous Tom's attack on Gatsby just points out his inner weakness.

The ending of this film is very dramatic. Gatsby is still a good young man with dreams. Even if Daisy killed someone with her car, her first thought was not to clarify the facts for herself, but to protect her goddess. Even before his death, he still looked forward to Daisy's phone call and believed that Daisy would come back to him. Unfortunately, after Gatsby's death, no one who flocked to Gatsby's party came to see Gatsby except journalists who wanted to dig up news about the death of celebrities. The only person waiting at the funeral was Nick, Gatsby's only friend. Daisy finally left with Tom. Gatsby is just a passer-by in her life, a man who once brought a little dream and interest to her life.

The name of this film is The Great Gatsby. I wonder what's so great about Gatsby. He fell in love with a woman he shouldn't have loved and ruined his life. He pursues material success, and he longs for the respect of the upper class. In my opinion, such superficial success has little significance and value in life. What is Gatsby's greatness about? I have to mention the American dream here. Gatsby is one of thousands of young people in Qian Qian who are working hard on this land with the American dream. At that time, the United States, especially the upper class, had serious class concepts and racial discrimination. However, with the rapid development of economy and industry, generations of grassroots youth with dreams began to strive to break through the social hierarchy. They represent a kind of awakening of people's self-consciousness and anyone who is willing to work hard. No matter where you come from or where you were born, as long as you have the courage and are willing to work hard, you can realize your dream ideology. Gatsby is such a young man. However, Gatsby is also tragic. His dream of changing his destiny is well-intentioned, but the final establishment point is wrong. He made the wrong choice in the pursuit of success and love. He is eager for the recognition of the upper class and those so-called superficial achievements. Such a road is doomed to be a tragedy, but we can't blame Gatsby, because he is the epitome of a large number of young people under the social background of great economic prosperity in the 1920s in the United States.

But we can't be completely pessimistic about this society, nor can we despair of young people like Gatsby. We should also see their brilliance and hope from them. There is a monologue at the beginning of the film, which is told by Nick's father: always try to see the best in people. I think the meaning of this sentence is to try to see the good side of human nature and always have hope for it.