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摘要：F. Scott Fitzgerald recorded what he and his generation really thought about, what they pursued and what they lacked in his period. That is to say the novel is intertwined with Fitzgerald’s understanding of himself and his generation. The dilemma that Nick, Gatsby and Fitzgerald face is: whether to pursue one’s dreams and neglect the heart’s moral or to face the reality that such dreams are illusory.

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Gatsby instills Daisy with a kind of idealized perfection that she neither deserves nor possesses. But he longs to recreate the vanished and past time in Louisville with Daisy and does not realize the fact that he is incapable of doing so. Because of these, their love is doomed to fail.
The romantic and fantastic nature of Gatsby’s love seems very extraordinary; anyhow, his determination and loyalty to love attract us deeply. For love, he changes his name and gains immense wealth through criminal activity. Why does he wait so long for a meeting with Daisy and depend on Jordan Baker and Nick to bring it about? A man with Gatsby’s resources would surely have a hundred easier ways to do what he does in the course of this story. The answer is that he wants his love to be full of romance. After Gatsby’s relation with Daisy is revealed, a meeting between the two becomes inevitable. As the novel explores ideas of love, excess, and the American dream, it becomes clearer to the readers that Gatsby’s emotional frame is out of sync with the passage of time. The fact that his nervousness about the present and about how Daisy’s attitude toward him may have changed causes him to knock over Nick’s clock, which symbolizes the clumsiness of his attempt to stop time and retrieve the past.
Now let’s see Gatsby’s cherishing lover: Daisy. Daisy Buchanan, of course, presented not by Gatsby or Fitzgerald but by Nick Carraway comes to us through his filter of contradictory impressions and emotions. After Nick’s description of Tom, with the latter’s conceit and meanness, the reader is prepared to respond instantly to the charm of Daisy. Daisy comes to us laughing, “An absurd charming little laugh”10 , which makes Nick laugh too. The pleasing impression of Daisy is largely vocal:

…there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered ‘ listen’, a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that were gay, exciting thing hovering in the next hour. 11

But just as we are seduced by her simpering mockery of her husband, captivated by her posturing, her “thrilling scorn”12 and her romantic glow, Nick pulls us back.：
The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to exact a contributory emotion from me. I waited, and sure enough, in a moment she looked a me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face, as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged.13

Nick can both glamorize Daisy so that the readers can share Gatsby’s attraction to her and undercut Daisy so that the readers can see her inner heart from his description. Such a set of contradiction gives us a view of Daisy that contrasts the one Gatsby will later present. It also indicates that the tragic aspect of Gatsby’s love..
Through the description of Gatsby’s love disillusion, Fitzgerald expresses his opinion that one’s aspiration is doomed to collapse if it is built on money. Gatsby pursues wealth by using love as the motivation.

IV. Reasons Causing the Author’s Controversial Senses and the Significant Impact of These Senses on Him

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