The Great Gatsby is the representative work of American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald. It is a true reflection of 1920s. The book is a classical novel and has profound meaning of the essence of the American dreams disillusion. The writer showed the American social after the World War I in the book. It uncovers the money worship and hedonism in the Jazz Age and peoples selfishness and indifference at that time. What the novel describes is a tragic story about the disillusion of the American dream.,The story happened after the World War I. A young man named Nick Caraway rent a house in the Long Island. In the opposite house there lives his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom Buchanan. Jay Gatsby is his neighborhood. Gatsby holds big parties every weekend in his villa but there is few people has seen his face. After a while Nick knows that when Gatsby was a soldier, he fell in love with Daisy. However, Daisy finally married a rich man Tom Buchanan. When the war was ended, Gatsby began to do illegal business and become a millionaire. In order to draw Daisys attention, he bought a big house in opposite to Daisys and often holds big parties.,Gatsby and Daisy meet again with the help of Nick. When Tom knew this, he is burst into anger and they have a quarrel. With extremely nervous, Daisy drives the car and killed Toms mistress Myrtle accidentally. However, Tom implies Myrtles husband Wilson that it is Gatsby who killed her wife. In extreme anger Wilson shoot Gatsby and suicide. At the end of this movie, when Nick held a funeral for Gatsby, none of his old friends join. Nick is disappointed to the dark society of New York so he leave the city and go back to his home in the American Midwest.,The theme of the novel is to present the tragedy of the American dreams disillusion by showing the story of Gatsbys pursuing his dream. The so-called “American dream“ means that in America everyone is equality of opportunity. People can realize their dream and achieve success just by themselves struggle. The American dream has always been an ideal that people are convinced it and pursue it. It is a kind of spiritual strength that promote America to develop and flourish quickly. After the World War I, America has entered into an unprecedented era of prosperity and the American dream becoming a crazy worship to money. The wind of money worship prevailing. So the American dream has been deteriorated with the social development.,In this movie, the short life of Gatsby has go through the process of dream from start to burst. It symbolize the rise and burst of the American dream at the same time. One side of his American Dream is the dream of money, the other side is the dream of love. And Daisy is the combination of love and money which hes longing for. She is the represent of a beautiful life.,However, in real life, Daisy is far from what Gatsby imagine. She is a selfish, shallow and timid girl and all she want is money and upper class life. Finally Gatsbys dream broken and it also symbolize the broken of the American dream. The essence of the tragedy of Gatsby is the tragedy of American idealism. Although Gatsbys effort did not pay off, his spirit of struggling to realize his dream and change the fate is moving and deserves our admiration.,BYE, MY OLD SPORT !,