「了不起的盖茨比（英文全本 畅销珍藏版）」读后感 心得体会

作者：弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德

《了不起的盖茨比》以20世纪20年代生活在纽约市及长岛的中上层社会为背景，以穷小子尼克的视角出发，讲述了盖茨比历尽艰辛不择手段地攫取财富，最终从一个穷光蛋变成“了不起”的富豪，以及他与初恋时因贫穷而失去的情人黛西之间的情感纠葛。盖茨比对名车豪宅、奢靡派对充满了狂热的喜爱，他疯狂的享乐主义和对财富不择手段的追逐，折射了当时社会普通的的躁动情绪和道德倒退。而黛西对他情感的态度同时也揭露了当时残酷的社会现实，揭示了“美国梦”的破灭。

「了不起的盖茨比（英文全本 畅销珍藏版）」读后感 心得体会

Almost five years ago,a handsome man named Gatsby who was born in a poor family fall in love with a princess named Daisy.Gatsby went to the army.Daisy got married with a wealthy man named Tom.Gatsby wanted to attract Daisy coming back around him after making numerous money and building a huge house where parties were held in order to know Jordan and Nick who were acquaintances of Daisy.Tom had a waitress named Myrtle whose husband named Wilson managed a poor garage business.There was one day Myrtle was killed by the car actually driven by Daisy.Tom intended to told Wilson that car belonged to Gatsby.Tom and Daisy left the East Egg.It was the madman Wilson that killed Gatsby and also killed himself.

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

The story is not complicated.Because the author had similar and ridiculous experiences,we can see his reflections from rational Nick and sensitive Gatsby.

The reason why Gatsby was great is that he persisted running after what he wanted, not like most people losing their bearings as time goes by.Contradictorily,people would not relinquish easily instead of grabbing the vague green light tightly.Gatsby could be greater if he had persuaded himself.It is right humans are born with some deficiencies.

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all — Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

We do not need to judge anyone because we might possess an advantage that others do not have.

‘Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world havent had the advantages that you ve had.