What is the practical significance of The Great Gatsby?

Through the third-person experience and the description of this tragic love story, the author deeply analyzes the differences in life and spiritual world between the east and the west of the United States with great economic and material differences. Between the lines, the author reveals his boredom and criticism of the superficial material world in the East.

He is tired of exposing people's indifference, cruelty and insidiousness in this money world. The ending of the novel, that is, Gatsby's funeral-except his father and the protagonist of the book (also from the West), no one came to attend, putting the naked reality in front of every reader.

Undoubtedly, this tragedy has great spiritual touch and realistic warning function. This tragedy warns today's young people not to be too involved in the transaction with money, and not to be too addicted to the illusory bustling world. It tells people that besides material things, we should pay more attention to our own hearts, and we need to reflect on what we really need, and whether those infatuations with material things are just to meet the expectations of others and satisfy our vanity and inferiority.

It warns people that if they devote themselves to the pursuit of extreme material world just to meet the expectations of others and their own vanity and inferiority, the result can only be great disappointment.

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Artistic features: In The Great Gatsby, the author Fitzgerald chooses Nick Calloway as the narrator, and tells the love story between Gatsby and Daisy with the identity and tone of "only the pursued and the pursued are busy and tired"-in fact, Nick is the first narrator of the novel story, facing the readers.

Fitzgerald, as a hidden or indirect narrator of novel stories, is a universal narrator; Gatsby, on the other hand, acts as the first protagonist and the third narrator in the novel, facing himself. The voice of the novelist Fitzgerald always exists in the voices of Nick and Gatsby, and runs through them.