The Great Gatsby
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中文：
小说通过完美的艺术形式描写了20年代贩酒暴发户盖茨比所追求的“美国梦”的幻
灭，揭示了美国社会的悲剧。
盖茨比与黛茜的恋爱和分手本来是个很普通的爱情故事。但作者出手不凡，把盖茨
比热恋的姑娘当作青春、金钱和地位的象征，当作*手段追求富裕物质生活的“美国
梦”。盖茨比为了追求黛茜耗尽了自己的感情和才智，最后葬送掉自己的生命。他天真
地以为：有了金钱就能重温旧梦，赎回失去的爱情。可惜，他错了。他看错了黛茜这个
粗俗浅薄的女人。他看错了表面上灯红酒绿而精神上空虚无聊的社会。他生活在梦幻之
中，被黛茜抛弃，为社会冷落，终于铸成了无法挽回的悲剧。
盖茨比是20年代典型的美国青年。他的遭遇正是欢歌笑舞的“爵士时代”的写照。
作者为小说设计了一个“双重主人公”尼克·卡罗威。他的重要性在许多方面不亚
于主人公盖茨比。他既是故事的叙述者和评论者，又是小说中一个重要人物。他与矛盾
着的双方都有千丝万缕的关系。他是盖茨比的邻居和朋友，又是黛茜的表哥、汤姆的同
学，还热恋着黛茜的好友乔丹。他充当了盖茨比和黛茜分别5年后重新见面的牵线人，
又成为盖茨比重温旧梦的批评者和他惨遭杀害的同情者。他虽然跻身于长岛豪华的住宅
区，但他既不是汤姆所代表的“荒原时代”的精神世界的公民，也不是盖茨比所代表的
盲目崇拜黛茜的脱离现实的梦幻世界的同路人。他代表美国中西部的传统观念和道德准
则。他对于盖茨比追求失去的幸福的梦幻有许多中肯的批评，对于讲究外表而内心卑俗
的汤姆和黛茜则进行了公正的鞭挞。盖茨比死后，昔日的宾客一个也不露面，黛茜则陪
丈夫远远离去，尼克一针见血地指出了社会的虚伪和无情，使读者对于盖茨比所追求的
美国梦的必然破灭有了深刻的印象。
小说采用第一人称的叙事手法，仿佛书中发生的一切都是尼克的亲身见闻，不加虚
饰，令人感到亲切可信。尼克和盖茨比两人从陌生到认识，感情上既有距离，又有融和，
富有多种层次的结合和区别，写得脉络清晰，恰到好处。这种把不同的观点巧妙地统一
在一部小说中，使作品具有深刻的内涵和严密的结构，正是作者独特的艺术成就。
作者在叙述中还运用了许多丰富生动的比喻，使人物的感情起伏和场景的变换增添
了抒情的色彩。精采的比喻常常被用来渲染梦幻的气氛，表达精神的空虚。如尼克初次
到汤姆家，看到黛茜和她女友贝克坐在沙发上“活像浮在一个停泊在地面上空的大气
球”，后来才“慢慢地降落地面”。盖茨比在家里第一次与黛茜重逢时伸手去抓她的手，
以一种创造性的热情投入了他的梦幻。“不断添枝加叶，用飘来的每一根绚丽的羽毛加
以缀饰”。这些梦幻是“牢牢地建立在仙女的翅膀上的”。内涵深刻的比喻把盖茨比对
“美国梦”的追求描绘得维妙维肖，跃然纸上。
小说还运用了象征的手法来揭示人物内心的活动与环境的冷酷。比如：西卵码头尽
头有一盏绿灯，盖茨比常常在晚上孤独地望着它，伸开双手想去拥抱它——那青春和爱
情的象征，仿佛是黛茜的化身。小说末了，尼克又想起了盖茨比信奉这盏绿灯，似乎近
在眼前，他几乎不可能抓不住，实际上却可望而不可即，他的梦想已经远远逝去了。又
如书中六次出现的“埃克尔堡大夫的眼睛”是蓝色的，“若有所思，阴郁地俯视这片阴
沉沉的灰堆”。它象征不幸和灾难。在情节发展的关键之处，这双眼睛好像复活了，它
仿佛看着盖茨比去跟汤姆摊牌，又预见到威尔逊要去杀死盖茨比。浑身铜臭的黛茜爱穿
白色的上衣和裙子，宛如纯洁可爱的天使，其实她的灵魂污点斑斑。这象征纯洁的白色
像一面洁白的镜子，把她的灵魂深处暴露无余。盖茨比重温旧梦的幻想一去不复返了。
作者用五光十色的音符谱出了一曲凄怅的悲歌，给人留下无限的思索。

　　当品读完一部作品后，大家一定都收获不少，需要好好地就所收获的`东西写一篇读后感了。你想好怎么写读后感了吗？以下是我为大家收集的了《不起的盖茨比》英文读后感范文（精选3篇），仅供参考，大家一起来看看吧。

　　《《不起的盖茨比》》英文读后感1

　　The Great Gatsby I read, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the well-known American writer, was published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2004, with 225 pages.

　　The book is a novel. It is a story told by Nick about a man named Gatsby. The author gives the reader a vivid love story with a tragic end. The story can be interpreted many ways. The fall of the American dream is one major theme.

　　Here are the top four characters. Gatsby, the protagonist, has an obsessive love with Daisy. He struggles for her attention, for her joyance, and most importantly, for her herself. It turns out what he struggles for is only an allusion, a shadow, and a dream, just out reach of his hand. He pays “a high price for living too long with a single dream” (Fitzgerald, 200). Special attention should be paid to Nick, the narrator. He is “one of the few honest people” that we ever known in the novel (Fitzgerald, 70). Therefore, we can, first of all, trust his narration. As Daisy’s cousin and Gatsby’s neighbour, he then exists as a connection of the two. Another function he plays is that being an observer, he can evaluate and criticize our protagonist objectively. Daisy and Tom make a perfect couple. Daisy, though born a beauty, is sensual and “her voice is full of money” (Fitzgerald, 152). Then Tom, both physically and spiritually, is vulgar. Tom and Daisy lead a luxurious and profligate life.

　　The following is the plot of the novel. Gatsby and Daisy loved each other. However, Gatsby was too poor to marry Daisy. He went to war in Europe. When he came back he found Daisy had married Tom. He earned substantive money illegally, and came to New York City, and bought a house, and held parties, which were luxurious out of imagination, in order to draw Daisy’s attention. Finally he knew Nick, his neighbour, was Daisy’s cousin, and came to him for help. Under Nick’s arrangement, Gatsby met Daisy five years after they parted. After Tom had learned that there was something between Gatsby and Daisy, he attacked Gatsby that the latter did drugstore business in the face of Daisy and Nick, and asked Daisy back to his arms. Later, Daisy, driving, killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover by accident. However, Tom told her husband, Wilson, that it was Gatsby who was Myrtle’s lover and killed her. Consequently Wilson shot Gatsby to death and took his own life as well. After Gatsby’s depressing funeral, Nick decided to go back to the Middle West. After all, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom and he himself were all from the Middle West.

　　When The Great Gatsby was published, T. S. Eliot praised it was the first step of American novel had token since Henry James. I like this novel, which is not hard to understand but not easy to appreciate. First, it is a novel about dreams. Young men, maybe young women as well, without fortune and outlook may lack everything but dreams. Yet how their dreams will turn out to be is completely another thing. We notice in Chapter 9, Gatsby’s SCHEDULE, which is marvelously similar to Benjamin Franklin’s schedule, and then we are reminded of the American dream. That is a dream, as James Truslow Adams has remarked, “of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” (“What is the American Dream” ). The generation of Franklin succeeded through their personal struggle. Unfortunately, this was never true to men like Gatsby, who lived in the 1920s America. Gatsby does have ambition, but he is a hero in an improper time where money is the sole criterion of success. Fitzgerald links Gatsby “with a world that no longer exist, a world that has been lost in back rush of time, a world that offers more in promise than has been realized in fact” (Lehan). It is the dream that deceives him into living with sufferings; and it is the dream that even makes him die willingly.

　　Besides the decline of the American Dream, another theme of the novel, in my opinion, is that there exists no true love in a world where ruthless materialism prevails. Notwithstanding “the love Gatsby has for Daisy seems to be the only pure impulse in a corrupt world” (Lehan), his love has no opportunity to flourish. Daisy finally chooses to follow Tom, and they escape, “and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (Fitzgerald, 222). About love, Fitzgerald says through one of his characters, “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired” (Fitzgerald, 95). The love between Nick and Baker, if it exists, can support this point as well.

　　In terms of craftsmanship in American literature, The Great Gatsby can be said one of the most consummate. It is a work making good use of symbolism. First, the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock represents Gatsby’s hope and dream for the future. It is yet only an illusory dream which he will never reach. It is not more real than the stars in the sky. Second, the Valley of Ashes symbolizes “the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth”. Third, the eye of Doctor T. J. Ecklebury’s in a billboard represents “God staring down upon and judging American society as moral wasteland”. Each symbol has more than one interpretation, with which I will not try to bother here.

　　Then the language of The Great Gatsby deserves to be mentioned. The language is elegant and graceful, and sometimes it could be compared to a poem’s language. In one of Gatsby’s grand parties, “people disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away”(Fitzgerald, 44). Then when Daisy was singing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, she brings out “a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again” (Fitzgerald, 135). Then Gatsby “stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air …” (Fitzgerald, 191). More examples shall not be quoted. The description of views of the evening and moonlight should be specially noticed.

　　In relation to our life, how shall we do with our personal dreams? Man, as he grows, becomes realistic. This process is like when we put a piece of paper into a glass of water, the paper is gradually soaked and suddenly falls into the bottom. Then it is like an artichoke flower, peels off one petal after another, and finally withers. However, without dreams, what can man hold? The Pandora’s Box opened; everything flew out, leaving only hope at the bottom. Hope, thence, stays forever for the despairing people, even when they have nothing else.

　　Finally, the fiction urges me to think about what kind of life we are willing to have? All the four principle characters are from the Middle West and come to live in the East. Many in China come from the countryside and pursue the urban life. Nick never feels he is a part of the East, and if Gatsby has felt, he would not be dead. The relation between countryside and urban life deserves reconsidering, especially in the contemporary Chinese context.

　　It is my pleasure to recommend this novel to my friends. Another well-known American writer, who was contemporary with Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemmingway’s words are of service, “Gatsby was a great book. I’ve read it twice in the last five years. It gets better with each reading” (Hemingway, Gregory). I would like to read it twice when time is available.

　　《不起的盖茨比》英文读后感2

　　The Great Gatsby is a significant classic in America literature and Fitzgerald is also considered as a chronicler of the “Jazz Age”. The women characters play an important role in revealing the theme of the novel. Especially the figure Daisy and the contradictions in her has aroused my interests to think carefully about the reason why she would choose that when her ideal ran into the reality.

　　Daisy was once a lovely, elegant and innocent girl when she was “Daisy Fay”. Though Gatsby was a penniless lower class young man, she fell in love with him crazily and happily. While she changed and showed her darker side gradually. She noticed the importance of wealth and position, so she chose to marry to Tom Buchanan though she did not love him as much as Gatsby at that time. Besides, Daisy considered her daughter as a doll and continued playing with those guys. Even until the end, her former lover Gatsby who was wealthy and renowned then came back to her. Considering Gatsby’s illegal sources of money and his inglorious past, Daisy refused to go with Gatsby finally. What annoyed me the most is the plot that Gatsby was murdered because of the misunderstanding of Wilson while Daisy did not attend his funeral. She may have many scruples when her ideal life was disturbed by the cruel reality. Actually everyone may become confused and perplexed when we face the confliction. Also everyone has his own choice. But the point is how much we can afford when confront the result that happened after our decision.

　　The slang “Make friends with local tyrant” is very popular nowadays. We ought to think about the hidden reason for its popularity after we scoff at it. With the fast development of economy, more and more people are lost themselves just like the young generation after the World War Ⅰ. Their value has been or is going to be changed completely. They don’t know what exactly right is and what exactly they are supposed to do. Some students play online games in the dormitory rather than go to the classes. Some staff has become a workaholic in order to deal with the life pressure. Some married stars betrayed their families without remembering their oath. It seems that the whole society has ran out of the regular track. So it is high time that we calmed down and reflected ourselves. What exactly is our final ideal and how could we make it a reality?

　　Honestly speaking, nobody could live in the society without money. And obviously, almost everyone has been aware of the necessity of money. So no wonder people are struggling and fighting to get more money. But what if the life with plenty money is different from the life we used to dream of? As far as I’m thinking, it is definitely that life is more cruel that we thought and it is impossible that life goes as we designed. We can not own everything that we want to have. What we could do and what we could change is just ourselves. Our choices, our goals or our attitudes all have an impact on the final result. The change may be pretty small, but we ought to believe that the miracle will definitely show up as long as you stick to your ideal goal. So when your ideal is disturbed by the reality, don’t let your original step be disturbed as well. Just follow your heart and be yourself. And I believe that you will finally achieve your goal in the near future.

　　《不起的盖茨比》英文读后感3

　　At the beginning of the review, I am afraid but I need mention that I read The Great Gatzby from my paper book, not online, so it might be a little strange in the record of my reading history and also the lack of comments.

　　After reading the novel, I sympathized deeply for Gatzby, who dedicated almost his whole life into pursuing Daisy, but eventually was shot down for Daisy’s fault, and also Nick, who narrate this heart-broken story to us. But I believe that all is destined, not only his success, but also his miserable, dramatic ending.

　　First, Gatzby meant to be succeed, which was determined by his personality. He was such an absolute perfectionist, fairly speaking, a paranoiac, that he never accept he was inferior to others in all kinds of aspects. He scheduled his life when he was young in order to achieve his goal. He couldn’t live like Tom who dissipated his time on women, also couldn’t like Wilson live so meaninglessly, and his ambition made it impossible for him to be content with common life. After the moment he denied his poor family background, changed his name into Jay Gatzby, he either succeed, or die.

　　No matter how, he will succeed. I always believe it because his characteristic promised.

　　And I also believe Gatzby would fall in love with a lady with a celebrated background. Because he was a perfectionist , he must long for a charming, wealthy, graceful aristocracy. Daisy was just a representation of perfection, a concrete thing in his dream.

　　However, Daisy falls far short of Gatzby’s ideal. She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, and hypocritical. She is careless person who smashes thing up and then retreats behind her money. She allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle ever though she herself was driving the car. Finally, rather than attend Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no contact address.

　　Gatzby knew exactly what kind of person she was. And the very beginning of the novel, he said “Her voice is full of money”. But how can it matter? His puzzle of life would be incomplete without Daisy, and as we know, he was such a paranoiac that never let it happen. It’s impossible for him to restart.

　　Gatzby’s obsession about Daisy and Daisy’s characteristic determined the trend of plot.

　　So, it is destined.

　　And not only from the plot development we can say Gatzby’s fate was destined, but also from the writer himself. Technically, Gatzby wasn’t a only fictional character, but also the reflection of writer, Fitzgerald himself. He also had a complex relationship of his own. His own experience made him believe that there’s a huge gap between the “natural” rich and the ”new” rich.

　　In rich boy, his another novel, he showed his attitude directly:

　　Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.

　　They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

　　Because of the poverty and adversity they had been through, they always cherish the first glamorous thing dropping in their life. Some of them even take it as the highest goal in life, like Gatzby who considered Daisy as his whole world. When their dream faded out gradually, they might behave like Gatzby, deceive themselves to protect their “little green light” in their heart until their hearts are beaten to pieces by reality.

　　At last, I want to use the final sentence in The Great Gaztby as the end, which I consider as the most profound ending I have ever read and inspire me a lot. Gatzby’s dream was always behind him, from the moment he met Daisy and fell in love with her. So what he did was just striving hard back into the past against the current of time, like the ending says:

　　So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

he novel described for the 20's through the perfect artistic form to sell "the American dream" which liquor nouveau riche Gates compared pursues vanishing, has promulgated the American society's tragedy. Gates and bids good-bye compared to and the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red love originally is the very ordinary love story. But the author makes a masterly opening move, compared to the girl which is in love treats as Gates the youth, the money and the status symbol, treats as * the method pursue wealthy material life "the American dream". Gates compares in order to pursue the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red to exhaust own sentiment and the ability and wisdom, finally ruined own life. He naively thought that, Had the money to be able to revive an old dream, redeems the love which lost. He was what a pity wrong. He looked at mistakenly black eyebrow coloring alizarin red this vulgar superficial woman. He looked at mistakenly on the surface the debauchery but the spiritual sky empty bored society. He lives in the illusion, is gotten rid by the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red, is desolate for the society, finally has cast the tragedy which is unable to recall. The Gates ratio is the 20's models American youth. His bitter experience is precisely the happy song smiles the dance "knight the time" the portrayal. The author has designed for the novel "the dual leading character" Nick the Carrow prestige. His importance is not inferior to the leading character Gates ratio in many aspects. He not only is the story narration and commentary, also is in the novel a important personage. He both is having the very complicated relations with contradictory both sides. He is Gates compared to neighbor and friend, also is the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red cousin, Tom's schoolmate, but also is being in love black eyebrow coloring alizarin red good friend Jordan. He acted as Gates to compare after the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red distinguishes the go-between which 5 years remet, the sympathy which also became which the Gates ratio to revive an old dream the criticism and he suffers kills. He although advances into to the Long Island luxurious residential district, but he already is not "wilderness time" which Tom represents inner world citizen, also is not worships blindly the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red which Gates compares represents to be separated from the reality the illusion world fellow traveller. He represents the American mid-west the traditional ideas and the moral criterion. He happiness illusion which loses compared to the pursue has many critical criticisms regarding Gates, regarding was fastidious the semblance but innermost feelings vulgar Tom and the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red has carried on fair whipping. After Gates compared to dies, former days guest did not make an appearance, the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red accompanied the husband to depart by far, Nick pertinent had pointed out society's false and the heartlessness, caused the reader compared to the American dream necessity which pursued to be disillusioned regarding Gates had the profound impression.

《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德创作的一部以以20世纪20年代的纽约市及长岛为背景的中篇小说，下面是我收集整理的 《了不起的盖茨比》读后感 ，欢迎大家阅读参考。

篇一：读了不起的盖茨比有感

了不起的盖茨比，是我最近读的第二本英语小说了。随意中就翻看了，看着，看着也就往下看了。了不起的盖茨比是美国著名作家菲茨杰拉德的作品。这个小说家我以前看哲学书的时候看到过，但是没怎么留意。好像听说这个是一部著名的短篇小说，但是我以前对英语小说不太有兴趣，所以也就没怎么涉猎。最近，也就是最近我突然想看看英语小说，所以到处搜罗了一些简写本的英语小说来念念。如果能够找到英语版本的，那么中文版本就不再阅读了，我打算这样做。还有我准备先看一些简写本，到后来熟练了，就看一些原版的英语小说了。简写本的好处就是故事保留了，但是没有那么多难字，那么多罗里吧嗦。这样，既满足了我看英语小说的虚荣心，又使得自己能够阅读了一些英语名著。

了不起的盖茨比，这本书讲述了一个悲惨的一厢情愿的爱情故事。穷小子爱上了富家女，打肿了脸冲胖子，说自己也是公子哥。为了让别人不知道他的身世，告别了热恋中的女朋友，去参军打仗了。其实他此时已经负担不起恋爱费用了。战时，女朋友等了他一段时间，最终还是嫁给了其他公子哥了。退役回家的男主人公，在鬼使神差中，继承了一大笔遗产，就在他前女朋友家附近买了一套豪宅，夜夜举办聚会，笙歌劲舞，目的就是为了使得他的前女朋友来他的聚会，再次爱上他。最终，他前女朋友来了，爱上了他的钱，但是某天却开着盖茨比的车撞*了一个修车厂老板的太太，老板找到盖茨比杀了盖茨比，自己也自杀了。虽然盖茨比日日聚会不断，出入车水马龙，但是没有一个是他的朋友，最终他的葬礼只有两三个人出席。怎么说呢，盖茨比也就是一个为了一棵树，而放弃整个森林的典型代表。为了博得前女友的一笑，却付出了自己的生命，但是那个女人并没有说你好。很多人想嫁给他，但是他只喜欢他的前女友，兄弟人家已经结婚了，他还念念不忘，居然举办party来吸引她的到来。

总之，这本小说，还不错。更适合各个阶层的人群阅读，盖茨比悲剧性的人物。

篇二：了不起的盖茨比读后感

《了不起的盖茨比》是弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德的代表作。作者以20世界20年代的美国为背景，讲述了穷职员尼克闯入了挥金如土的大富翁盖茨比隐秘的世界，惊讶地发现，他内心惟一的牵绊竟心爱的黛西。然而，冰冷的现实容不下缥缈的梦，到头来，盖茨比心中的女神只不过是凡尘俗世的物质女郎。当一切真相大白，盖茨比最终彻底成为自私而残忍的黛西的牺牲品，他的悲剧人生亦如烟花般，璀璨只是一瞬，幻灭才是永恒。一阕华丽的“爵士时代”的挽歌，在菲茨杰拉德笔下，如诗如梦，在美国当代文学史上留下了墨色浓重的印痕。

一次偶然的机会，我读《了不起的盖茨比》，原来只是想打发打发时间，殊不知开头那句父亲的忠告便让我有了莫大的兴趣：你在评论他人的时候，要记住并非所有的人都有你这样优越的条件。喜欢看着盖茨比站在海边遥望黛西家码头上的绿灯，喜欢看着他“以奇怪的方式伸出手臂”，喜欢那种惊奇和热切；喜欢盖茨比豪宅上彻夜不明的灯光，和从花园里随风飘至的音乐和笑声，那样声色犬马，醉生梦死。以及盖茨比躲在这一切繁华背后的孤独和被压抑的欲望。喜欢死后的那段人情冷暖，喜欢看着那辆来自另一个世界尽头的汽车来到豪宅门口，却没有发现美好的宴会早已散场。也喜欢书中的语言、隐喻、讲故事的方式，和精致却缜密的结构。只有在反复阅读之后，你才会发现原来书中的每个人不仅丰满、独立，而且在无形之中又被归拢在情节的网罗里，成为情节的一部分。

当我翻完《了不起的盖茨比》的最后一页，我莫名其妙的回忆起一年前的一个秋夜阅读果戈理《涅瓦大街》的情景，当我在涅瓦大街迷人的街灯和喧闹的人群中目睹一个纯真又孱弱的年轻人的激情被现实的荒谬彻底击碎的时候，我感到一种难以名状的情绪令我无处遁形，庇斯卡辽夫以其全部的生命追求一瞥而来爱情，但是迷人的姑娘却变成了不可理喻的妓女，于是他对美的追求反而嘲讽般的把他推向了生命的尽头。然后，我在那个有点慌张的夜晚里得出了一个结论：要放弃救人，因为不会有太多的人希望在蓝色的天空下不断的延展梦想，包括爱情在内，无奈的具有理想性质的向往与改变他人的试图总会变得苍白和荒谬。

篇三：了不起的盖茨比读后感

以前很少读外国小说，或许是因为篇幅太长，情节发展又很慢。但有一本书让我打破了对外国着作原有的想法，它留给我的已超越它的结构和形式，取而代之的是一种细致的思考，思考着人世的虚浮和人性的伪善与本真会有怎么样的碰撞，为什么会有这种碰撞。一部真正好的小说就是在故事背后揭示美与丑，黑与白的同时，让读者挖掘什么是人性的光点。

这部小说就是《了不起的盖茨比》，美国20世纪最杰出的作家之一——菲茨杰拉德的代表作。日本作家村上春树将他视为“一个标准，一把尺子，一个看清自己位置的一个标志。”相信《了不起的盖茨比》就是无外乎如此。

小说的主人公是盖茨比，作者通过盖茨比的邻居尼克的视角演绎他的经历与最后的沉沦。盖茨比在很久之前爱上自己的远房表妹黛西，在一次宴会上他与黛西重逢，此时的他已家财万贯，从前因为穷酸而未与黛西在一起的伤疤终于愈合，他们又一次坠入爱河。然而此时的黛西已结婚生子，在其丈夫的阻扰下，两人的关系再次僵局。盖茨比一直是一个忠于爱情的人，他对黛西的爱是真正的至死不渝，可惜在他生命结束的那一刻，黛西仍未回头。

盖茨比的生命就此终结，但人们对他的思考从未停止。作者笔下的盖茨比是个深具传奇色彩的人物——继承万贯家产，游历四方，甚至还有人说他曾杀过人，但他见到黛西的时候也会紧张得像个孩子，有着天真、单纯的一面。在别人热闹的时候，他总是孤身一人冷眼旁观，超然于一切俗世的喧嚣之上。为什么这样的人最终却被人遗忘？只能说人在社会中是渺小的，渺小到瞳孔再清澈也会被人看做冰穹；光明站在身边，却无法被庇护。或许作者生活的就是这么一个你争我夺，弱肉强食的时代，用老舍的话就是“不给好人留出路”。盖茨比是可悲的，他将爱献给了一个拜金，被时代腐化的女人，他并没有发现有时爱恨离愁并没人想像的那么简单，在不知不觉中，就会被人无情的背离。

纵然作者是心有酸楚得写的，但我相信他并没有抹去光明。盖茨比虽然悲剧，但他的纯真与热情一如往日，在我们这个时代正需要这种正能量，或许这部小说折射现实的背后渴望人们像在仲夏夜看细水长流那样的朴实，若人世皆为此人，相信黑暗永远不会降临。

篇四：了不起的盖茨比读后感

《了不起的盖茨比》是美国诗人、梦想家弗朗西斯·司各特·菲兹杰拉德的作品，出版于1925年。此次为天才翻译家李继宏的倾心译作。

小说中的盖茨比出身贫寒，年轻时与黛西相爱，但因贫穷无力迎娶黛熙，现实让盖茨比心中的幻想第一次破灭。而黛熙是非常现实的富家女，马上嫁给了另一富商汤姆。后来盖茨比靠自己的奋斗和运气成为百万富翁。发家后盖茨比仍念念不忘昔日恋人，仅仅为了一睹黛熙家码头的那盏绿灯而把家安在海边。

小说一开篇作者用大量的笔墨描述盖茨比在豪宅中宴请八方宾朋的场景，以及和黛熙重逢后若明若暗的感情。虽然黛熙的先生汤姆坚决反对，但他们还是无所顾忌地甜蜜着。正当他们欲走向“幸福大道”时，黛熙却在开车时因过度亢奋失手撞*了路人。作者用如此戏剧化的色彩着实令人吹嘘不已。盖茨比为了黛熙甘愿放弃自己的生命和万贯家财。而与此形成鲜明对比的是黛熙和汤姆的自私、冷漠，他们故意借口远走他乡，把所有的事故责任全推给盖茨比。现实再次冷漠地击碎了他那虚幻而近乎天真的梦境。

乍一看标题，“了不起”的盖茨比，可是刚开始我一直苦思冥想，就是想不明白他到底了不起在哪儿呢？回味再三，才有所顿悟。

盖茨比是一个了不起的人，他的了不起在于他简单单纯的爱情观，他认为爱情就是两个人的世界；盖茨比由贫入富，完全可以过富庶的上流社会生活，但他不为金钱、名利所动，他所有的目的只为和黛西重逢，直至他的一生以悲剧告终；盖茨比的了不起还在于他愿意以自己的生命来换取黛西的苟活。明知不可为而为之，再次为盖茨比的勇气喝采！

《了不起的盖茨比》，就是这样一个“浮夸时代，最后的古典爱情梦”又极具悲剧色彩的故事！

篇五：了不起的盖茨比读后感

这部被如此看重的《了不起的盖茨比》到底是怎样一部小说呢？从故事情节的层次说起吧。青年军官杰伊·盖茨比出生于美国中西部一个普通农家，他英俊聪明，耽于浪漫的好梦。他在南方一个大城市驻防时，和一个“大家闺秀”黛西一见钟情，私订终身。盖茨比出征欧洲期间，美丽风流的未婚妻却嫁给了纨绔子弟汤姆·布坎农。

盖茨比复员归国，在纽约从事非法的私酒生意，发了横财，决心夺回旧爱。这时汤姆和黛西已赶时髦迁居大纽约市长岛豪宅，盖茨比便在其海湾对面买下一所更加豪华的别墅，经常举行盛大的晚会，等待机会吸引黛西前来赴会，以期重温旧梦。久别重逢，黛西深为盖茨比忠贞的爱情所感动，也为他的财富动心。汤姆发现两人间的隐情后，在纽约寻衅摊牌，当众揭露盖茨比靠私酒买卖暴富。盖茨比不甘示弱，坦陈两人间五年不渝的爱情，要求黛西跟他走，黛西却拒绝和粗鄙不忠的丈夫分手。黛西驾车从纽约回家途中，心绪不宁，撞*了汤姆的情妇威尔逊太太。盖茨比决心为她承担罪责。汤姆谎称驾车的是盖茨比，并唆使威尔逊枪杀了盖茨比。

“三角恋爱”的模式在中外小说史上屡见不鲜。一对热恋中的情侣，由于富有的第三者的介入而分手，结果造成悲剧，也不在少数。19世纪英国小说家艾米莉·勃朗特的杰作《呼啸山庄》就是一个例子。可是，在天才作家的笔下，一个言情小说的平常模式却被点化成一个“高贵的野蛮人”心灵承受最深刻的苦难的戏剧和景象、一出“惊天地、泣鬼神”的“爱即受难”的悲剧。

《了不起的盖茨比》的基本情节也属于同一个模式，菲茨杰拉德的天才却将一个并无多少罗曼蒂克色彩的“三角关系”点化成为一个独特的“了不起的”盖茨比灵魂受难的缠绵悱恻的悲剧。

篇六：了不起的盖茨比读后感

菲茨杰拉德创作的《了不起的盖茨比》，被人称为是20世纪流传最广的美国小说。

故事大致写的是：青年军官盖茨比，英俊聪明，激情浪漫，在南方一个城市驻防时，和黛西一见钟情，私订终身。盖茨比服役没回来时，美丽的未婚妻却嫁给了风流倜傥的阔家子弟汤姆。盖茨比复员后从事非法的私酒生意，发了横财，决心夺回黛西。这时，汤姆和黛西已迁到纽约的海湾豪宅，盖茨比为了吸引黛西，便在海湾的对面买下了一所更加豪华的别墅，而且经常举行盛大的晚宴，来吸引黛西前来赴会，以期待黛西的回心转意。当黛西知道盖茨比还在爱着自己，而且拥有巨大的财富后，开始动心。驾车从纽约回家的途中，心神不定，撞*了自己丈夫汤姆的情人威尔逊太太。盖茨比知道后，决心为她承担罪过。而黛西的丈夫汤姆，却说开车的是盖茨比，并唆使威尔逊枪杀了盖茨比。盖茨比就这样死了。

日本作家，村上春树对这个小说评价很高，而且看了很多遍，也写了不少评。

说说我自己的感受。我看了第一遍也是觉得一般，不像《道连。葛雷的画像》给我的冲击力大，也不如《月亮和六便士》那么曲折动人，可看第二遍时开始有了感觉。

这本书很薄，故事不曲折，人物也不多，估计只有菲茨杰拉德才能写出这样的长篇，他的长篇大多不长可以说，作者把盖茨比在感情上的描写是不自信的，他像做走**盐那样，估摸着黛西的智慧。当看到黛西满眼都是金钱时，他又懊恼地说黛西变了，不是那个纯洁的黛西，而是个满眼是钱的黛西了，故事就这样一步步加剧了主人公的悲剧命运。而他的了不起就在这里显现出来——得知黛西已经变了，已经不是他的梦，他仍不改初衷，热烈地追求他的梦。他的梦超越了一切，以极大的、带有创作精神的热情投入到了这个梦——最后以他的死，他的梦破灭了。

另外一点，菲茨杰拉德写小说的水平很高，能把一个10来万字的小说写的全世界很多人都知道，本身也是了不起。还有，他的小说语言很好，很抓人，也很美。这就是菲茨杰拉德的《了不起的盖茨比》。

篇七：了不起的盖茨比读后感

很后悔现在才读这本书，但是一想到没有错过这本书，也就淡然了。

也许每个人都和盖茨比一样对于生活，爱情心中都有一个美好的幻想。即使现实把自己折磨的残破不堪，也不会轻易放弃心中理想的世界。年轻时的盖茨比和黛茜深深相爱，但是自己贫寒的家境和养尊处优的黛茜门不当户不对，这样的现实让盖茨比心中的幻想第一次破灭。然而他并没有被现实打败，怀揣着对黛茜的爱和对理想憧憬，他发誓要成为百万富翁，满足物质女黛茜，以便和她长相厮守。但是一个人即使非常的优秀，万分的努力，也不大可能短时间成功。盖茨比的地位和财富，在黛茜结婚五年后才取得，黛茜和汤姆结了婚，她没有等他。

五年后的盖茨比无疑是成功的，不过人都是不幸的，总是会有烦恼，成功者也不例外。他们鹤立鸡群，站在众人之上。有的由于没有对手会感到孤独，有的希望有人分享这份成功。盖茨比无疑是后者，他深爱着黛茜，没有她，这一切所谓的成功也就没有意义，因为在他所幻想的美好世界中，黛茜是主角，其他的只是陪衬。来来往往的人在他豪堡中穿梭，盛宴的狂欢声与光彩夺目的灯光直到深夜才会慢慢褪去。所有的'这些都是为了让黛茜看见，看见现在的他是多么的成功，如何的富有；看见现在的他有足够的金钱和地位满足她；看见现在的他是如何的爱她！最终在黛茜表弟尼克的帮助下，让黛茜看到了这一切，她所流露的激动与热泪也使盖茨比深深地感到黛茜也爱他。

黛茜的丈夫汤姆生性暴虐，做了种种对不起黛茜的事，和情妇威尔逊夫人越轨之事不仅不讳莫如深，还搞得几乎所有人都知道。黛茜很绝望，但是她又能怎样，歇斯底地大吼大叫，可是这是她自己选择的丈夫。

然而盖茨比的再次出现重新点亮了这个绝望女人的心，毫不掩饰的流露着对盖茨比的爱。这一切也让盖茨比无比坚信他心中的世界就在眼前，即使他不愿意相信黛茜的热泪中流露的除了爱恋之外还有金钱。然而这一切全在尼克的眼里，他看见了黛茜已经不是盖茨比深爱的那个黛茜了，更不是他幻想世界中的黛茜。

汤姆的嫉妒成为了盖茨比悲剧的导火索，在盖茨比和黛茜的关系坦露之后，三人的激烈争论使得黛茜情绪激动异常。情急之下撞*了汤姆的情妇威尔逊夫人，驾车离去。然而盖茨比承担了这一切，在汤姆的诡计之下，威尔逊为报夫人的仇，在盖茨比的豪堡中响起了枪声。

然而当盖茨比的尸体躺在豪堡中时，却没有人来祭拜。整个豪堡入死一般的沉寂。往日的一切热闹景象似乎本来就与这座豪堡没什么关系。更加让人无法忍受的是这时的黛茜正和汤姆在欧洲度假，享受着他们的“美好人生”。这一切看在尼克眼里，他看见了盖茨比幻想的破灭；看见了理想世界和现实的差距；看见了人性的冷漠无情；看见了为物质所动的一切虚情假意；心灰意冷之下，回到了自己的家乡。

这就是盖茨比的悲剧人生，一个活在美好幻想世界中的人，却深爱了一个物质女，并为其断送了自己的大好前程。

对于书中的人物印象最深的是盖茨比、尼克、黛茜、汤姆、以及威尔逊。盖茨比，本书的主人公，有理想，肯努力，能忍受，敢爱不敢恨，总是将一切想象的过于美好，最终悲剧在自己的幻想世界中。不过我想他是成功的，因为直到死他似乎也没有意识到黛茜的背叛，带着对黛茜的爱离去，也算是美满。黛茜，一个典型的物质女，因为物质，放弃了自己的爱情。在物质的驱动下又将其重拾了起来。然后在犯罪的恐惧下又再次的放弃，完结了盖茨比的悲剧人生。不知道当来生再见到盖茨比，会是怎样的一种心情，她又会因为什么而再次爱上盖茨比，当然，如果有来生。汤姆，一个典型强势暴虐，用情不专之人。因为“爱”，应该是嫉妒而成为盖茨比悲剧导演者。威尔逊，或许是书中最悲剧的人物，无钱，无地位，工作不努力。浑浑噩噩之下连老婆出轨也不知道，直到最后被人利用，结束了别人的生命，同时也结束了自己的生命。观其一生做过的唯一一件成功事就是把老婆骗到了手。尼克，整个过程的见证者，也是最后的承担者，承担着这个冷漠的世界。

人必须要有梦想，它激励着我们步步向前，但是却不能活在“美梦”之中。

篇八：了不起的盖茨比读后感

《了不起的盖茨比》是一本在上文学上怀有“美国梦”的作家菲茨杰拉德的作品，菲茨杰拉德认为他自己与众不同，与他的父母也不同，甚至不认为自己是父母的儿子，他拥有来自于柏拉图式的自我观念。

在这篇文章中，主人公即盖茨比就是一种自认为与众不同的人，他同样拥有柏拉图式的爱情观。他把自己看成是上帝之子，他认为自己应为上帝的事业效劳，他追求一种“博大的，世俗的，虚饰的美”，显然他把自己想象成为基督一样的人物。十七岁的他决定改名，由原来的詹姆斯·盖茨改为杰伊·盖茨比，据说杰伊·盖茨比是英语Jesus，God`sboy发音的变体。但是具有讽刺意味的是，从他改名那一刻起，他开始追求所谓的美和善，也就开始了他的人生悲剧。他把黛西·布坎南视为他追求的那种美的化身。当他见到她时，他知道她已经把他的理想与他的生命气息结合在一起了。他知道他的心要与上帝的心一样，必须专一，绝不可驰心旁骛。当他第一次亲吻她时，“她就像一朵鲜花一样为他绽放，于是这个理想的化身就完成了。”在黛西身上，盖茨比的梦想变得有血有肉。他企求与黛西联袂来实现自己的梦想。

但是，黛西根本无力担任这个角色。她不过是一个一项了为人生最高目标的资产阶级小姐，没有思想，没有情操，浅薄虚假，百无聊赖，无所事事。她绝不可能为实现盖茨比自己的梦想去牺牲自己的既得利益。而盖茨比自己当然不可能实现自己的梦想，他的想法太过虚幻。他和黛西的丈夫汤姆·布坎南都拥有财富，两人的不同之处是他至少用他的财富去追求一种“美”，并竭尽全力去得到它。然而，他没有赢得它，最后，乔治·威尔逊，也就是汤姆的情妇的丈夫在黛西夫妇的合谋和挑唆下杀死了盖茨比。他的梦想彻底破灭了。盖茨比的失败就其根本原因是他做的那个“美国梦”已过时了，他所处的年代梦想成真的机会已经微乎其微。

我自己为盖茨比感到惋惜，他如此专一，但最终被自己喜欢的女子所害。当然他有些地方是值得称赞的。他能够把爱情看得很美，而没有像大多数人一样把爱情和利益联系起来。不过他确实被自己的理想所误导，他没有看清时间与场合，他不该在心仪人已婚后还对过去美好回忆恋恋不舍。而黛西这个人太爱慕虚荣，太过于贪心。从某种程度上讲，盖茨比最终的下场跟她有很大的关系。