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f money, he buys a villa standing for wealth and in the opposite site of Daisy's mansion; also it's a kind of silence call of Daisy. He holds grand banquet in his villa day and night to attract Daisy to come and intends to regain their past loving days, and succeeds in retrieving Daisy's love again. From the luxuriant ball, people could see the luxury and squander of Gatsby's life. People from all around the world come to his house. They are drinking, singing and dancing, and they come for fun, for enjoyment. But most of them don't know why the party is held; some of them even don't know who the host is. And Gatsby is a mystery. However, Daisy in his heart is only an illusion and is as superficial as others in her ranking and she will never give up her simple-minded but elegant, and settled life for the ideal love. For such an American Dream, Gatsby spares no effort in achieving it. He not only tries every possible means including illegal trade of alcohol to make a fortune, but also catches every chance to meet with Daisy, speaks out his feeling to her, tries his best to make Daisy believe in his love for her and gives Daisy everything he can. But while Gatsby, Tom, Daisy and a friend of Daisy have a talk in the hotel of London, and Daisy, who drives Gatsby's car, encounters a car accident and kills Tom's lover----Myrtle, Gatsby’s American Dream begins to fall down. After the accident, Daisy and Tom travels abroad for shelter. Myrtle's husband learns that the car belongs to Gatsby, and then he murders Gatsby. Then the story comes to an end with Gatsby's death. Gatsby has done a great effort for his love, but all his efforts turn out to be a failure. C. Disillusionment of Gatsby’s American Dream As Fitzgerald points out many obvious human traits----snobbery, excessive romanticism, carelessness of others' feelings, betrayal, and the shallow curiosity of other people's dramas, as well as the social discrepancies between the rich and the poor scornfully and with distaste. Different social statuses have different styles of life.（陈可, 2000, 2: 2） In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes and contrasts the difference between East and West Egg, shows the separation of the upper class and the lower class, and it provides some insight with the use of symbolism of color. Each of the four important geographical locations in the novel----West Egg, East Egg, the valley of ashes, and New York City----corresponds to a particular theme or type of character encountered in the story. West Egg like Gatsby, full of garish extravagance, symbolizing the emergence of the new rich alongside the established aristocracy of the 1920s. East Egg like the Buchanan, wealthy, possessing high social status, and powerful, symbolizing the old establishment and aristocracy that continue to dominate the American social landscape. The valley of ashes is like George Wilson, desolate, desperate, and utterly without hope, symbolizing the moral decay of American society hidden by the glittering surface of upper-class extravagance. And people, who live in New York City, are the presentation of traditional English. Each of the four lives a different life from others, which they think is the perfect, because they have different points of view about living, wealth, and love. And they all lead a life style which belongs to them only. Gatsby's spends his whole life in attaining money and status so that he can reach a certain position in life and then he can win Dais