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A Book Report of The Great Gatsby
By Li Li
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. UK: Penguin Books Ltd, 2007
187
A Book Report of The Great Gatsby
By Li Li
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. UK: Penguin Books Ltd, 2007
187 Pages. Fiction.
The Great Gatsby is told us a tragic story in which how Gatsby tries his best for his dreams of love and life but finally he also fails in face of the reality by Nick’s tone.
Background Information
The Great Gatsby is the most famous masterpiece of Fitzgerald’s. It’s also the master piece of American realism fiction in the early period of the 20th century. This work was written in 1925 by Fitzgerald. This period is called jazz age, it’s also the most exuberant period of the author’s creativity. In this period, World War I has already ended up(1918) before Great Depression (1929) arrived. The traditional Puritan ethics crumbled and hedonism began to be popular. With Fitzgerald’s words, ‘this is a miracle of the era, an era of art, a miserly time, but also is a era full of taunt’. Fitzgerald called the age as the jazz age, so he is called ‘the poet laureate’ in this jazz age. As he himself also enjoyed this era warmly, he keenly felt this era for the romantic desire, the surface of the luxury of emptiness and behind is helpless, and in his works these emotions were reflect ed heartily.
In his works, the delicate affect