1、 1 A Book Review of The Great Gatsby Zing(李煜政) 14348060 At the first time I saw the name of this book in the list of “”, I feel really excited. Because that I have read this book in Chinese language when I was in seniors high school. At that time, I was totally moved by Gatsbys behavior, his determi
2、nation and his dream. So I have enjoyed the movie into which the novel adapted, whats more, I bought the novel in English last winter holiday. However, it was a pity that I didnt read it frequently because I spent a majority of my time on entertainment. So I read it from scratch, meanwhile, I acquir
3、ed many new feelings as well. The whole story happened in the New York, 1900s. That was a special period that everybody devoted himself to earn money. This stranger atmosphere change peoples values, which became that the man who has more treasure was more distingue. Consequently, Gatsby tried his be
4、st to earn money, more and more money, through many approaches, even some of them were illegal, even some of them were something he didnt want to do. Only when he got a large number of property could he held so many times of grand parties in his big villa. He tried to catch Daisys attention by the action but failed. Fortunately, Nick moved to his next door and Daisy was his sister. So Gatsby managed to make the acquaintance of Nick and then had a date with Daisy through the