摘要:The Great Gatsby, this novel is a masterpiece in American literature, evokes a haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly wil never come again. It was classified as“a book about the roaring 20s.”The novel is a work of genius, presents a picture of the prohibition era and a masterpiece related with irony and pathos to the legendary of the“American Dream,”was considered to be Fitzgerald’s best novel, and was a great success. Gatsby was the spokesman of his time. And in our hustle and bustle society, nobody can easily succeed;we should boldly go through trials and hardships to train our wil so as to get rid of the weakness of our moral characters, especial y in this high-developed and ful of changeable society.