We Die for Our Dreams
——Comments on The Great Gatsby
It was in a book of Murakami Haruki that I knew The Great Gatsby for the first time. He said that The Great Gatsby was a fantastic fiction so that I immediately developed a strong interest in it. At that time I wondered that what masterpiece would be worth such compliments from an excellent writer like Murakami Haruki. It must be more than a masterpiece.
I read The Great Gatsby several years ago when I was in senior high school. Actually I was reading it for fun, the reason of which is obvious that under the great pressure of schoolwork I wouldn’t spare one more hour to receive another boring sermon from anybody. However, I found it wasn’t that attractive as I imaged so I quitted reading it after getting the superficial main idea of it. Gatsby was decisive and stupid; his dream lover Daisy was vulgar and ruthless; Daisy’s husband, accordingly, was a total jerk. There are neither admirable characters nor exciting plot at all. It was definitely a masterpiece but wasn’t my cup of tea. As time passed by, I realized that even the same person tended to develop an extremely different opinion towards the very book. Now I read it all over again and I found something deep and thought-provoking about it.
Gatsby was described as an arrogant and tasteless businessman who was quite wealthy. He held parties almost every night to gather those so-called rich and genteel people. However, his real purpose was to meet his first lover—Daisy who had already married another rich and famed man. As he wished, he got to meet Daisy and found that she was still in love with him. But he didn’t realize that Daisy wasn’t what she used to be. She was no longer that innocent girl who waited for her lover, full of joy and wishes. In the end, Gatsby died for Daisy, the woman he had loved for lifetime. With little guilt or sorrow, Daisy quickly got rid of the whole mess and moved on smoothly as if nothing has happened, as if there has never been such a man named Gatsby who was in deep love with her and died for her. Gatsby’s love story was filled with cheat and cupidity. The statement that Gatsby and Daisy were in love with each other was merely a misconception. Or rather, they used to be in love for a short period but in the end, time changed everything and true love turned out an absurd lie.
From another perspective, neither of them is to blame in this tragedy named love. Daisy was a typical woman of that time, who had pretty face as well as empty brain, married a rich man, spent their life going for various parties and immoderate shopping, and turned a blind eye to their husbands’ stuff. They had original pureness and rosy dreams which finally were eroded by the onrush of depraved age. And Gatsby was just a man who was still stuck in previously romance and tried his best to earn back his lover. He was oriented, diligent and sometimes kind-hearted. He had the courage to chase his dream while most people didn’t, though his attempt ended up nothing.
Somebody said that be prepared for the nothing stuff and nowhere land, and keep walking with dreams. Maybe this makes sense to some extent. Even if we can predict the end in the very beginning, we will still orient ourselves in the thick fog and move ahead until death.

我们的梦想
——阅了不起的盖茨比的感想
这是一本村上的小说，我知道盖茨比首次。他说，伟大的盖茨比是一个幻想小说，我立即产生了强烈的兴趣。当时我不知道，什么都值得像村上杰作从村上一个优秀的作家这样的赞美。它必须比一部杰作。
我读过伟大的盖茨比几年前我在高中时。其实我读它的乐趣，其原因是显而易见的，伟大的功课压力我不会赦免一个小时从任何人接受另一个枯燥的说教下。然而，我发现这不是我想象的那么吸引我离开了阅读它得到它的表面的主要想法后。盖茨比是决定性的和愚蠢的；他的梦中情人黛西是庸俗的和无情的；黛西的丈夫，因此，是一个十足的混蛋。没有令人钦佩的人物也不精彩的情节都。这绝对是一个杰作，但不是我的那杯茶。随着时间的流逝，我意识到，即使是同一个人倾向于开发一个非常不同的看法非常的书。现在我读一遍，我发现很有深度，耐人寻味的呢。
盖茨比被形容为一个骄傲无味的商人很富有。他认为双方几乎每天晚上收集那些所谓的富人和有教养的人。然而，他的真正目的是为了满足他的初恋情人黛西已经娶了另一个富有和著名的人。他希望，他见到了黛西发现她仍然爱他。但他没有意识到黛西不是她以前的样子。她不再是那个天真的女孩，等待她的爱人，充满欢乐和祝福。最后，盖茨比死了黛西，他爱的女人的一生。有点内疚或悲伤，黛西很快摆脱整个混乱和顺利进行，好像什么事也没有发生移动，好像从来没有过这样的一个姓盖茨比的人谁是在深深的爱着她，为她而死。盖茨比的爱情故事，充满了欺骗和贪婪。声明说，盖茨比与黛西相恋只是一种误解。或者说，他们使用的是爱很短但最终，时间改变了一切，爱真的变成了一个荒谬的谎言。
从另一个角度来看，他们都不是在这场悲剧中命名的爱怨。黛西是那时的一个典型的女人，她美丽的脸以及脑空，嫁给了一个有钱人，花费他们的生活去各种聚会和无节制购物，而无视他们的丈夫的东西。他们原来的纯净和玫瑰，最后终于被堕落的时代洪流冲刷的梦想。盖茨比是一个人还停留在以前的浪漫和尽力赚回自己的爱人。他是定向的，勤奋和善良有时候。他有勇气追逐自己的梦想的同时，大多数人没有，尽管他试图结束了没有。
有人说，准备好没有的东西，没有土地，并继续行走的梦想。这也许不无道理。即使我们可以预测在非常开始的结束，我们仍会使自己在浓雾和前进直到死亡。