了不起的盖茨比读后感

第一篇：了不起的盖茨比读后感

《了不起的盖茨比》读后感

我年纪还轻，阅历不深的时候，我父亲教导我一句话，我至今念念不忘。 “每逢你想要批评任何人的时候，”他对我说，“你就记住，这个世界上所有的人，并不是个个都有过你那些优越的条件。”

——《了不起的盖茨比》

不知有多少人是因为村上春树才读菲茨杰拉德的《了不起的盖茨比》，我只是其中的一个。但是还有一个原因，那就是电影版的《了不起的盖茨比》是我最喜欢的美国演员莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥担任男主角，村上多次在他的作品里提到过菲茨杰拉德和《了不起的盖茨比》，如果没记错的话，第一次知道菲茨杰拉德是因为读《挪威的森林》，后来好奇，就决定看一遍《了不起的盖茨比》菲茨杰拉德用了第一人称内聚焦的叙事方式，通过尼克的回忆来讲故事，他既是当局者，又是旁观者。作为当局者，他是盖茨比的邻居，是黛西的远房表哥，是汤姆的旧相识，他和乔丹交往，参加盖茨比的奢华派对，帮盖茨比搭起与黛西重聚的桥梁，他目睹汤姆与盖茨比之间的冲突，知道茉特尔出事的真相，他处理盖茨比的后事„ „作为旁观者，他从不识盖茨比到成为盖茨比的送殡人，这短短日子里的经历令他最终看透了他接触过的那些人，看清了他所生存的那个“黄金”年代的美国社会„ „

我们通过尼克进入故事，以他的角度来观察、分析和思考，通常运用第一人称内聚焦这种叙事手法都会令人读得如临其境，真实感极强。

真实到连故事里每个人所向往和追求的似乎都是应该被理解的真实，包括盖茨比。虽然盖茨比追求的是一个看似虚无的梦想，但他需要的同样也是一种真实，一个黛西，一段他自以为暂停的爱情。可是实与虚又好像是一体的，黛西是真实的，而盖茨比苦苦追求的爱情梦想却如他豪宅对岸的小绿灯一般虚无缥缈，黛西无情的离开，盖茨比的被害，葬礼的冷清„ „盖茨比的苦心经营最终换来的是一场空，他追求的梦只是一个短暂而美丽的气泡。

通过尼克之口来讲盖茨比的故事是最合适的，从某种意义上来讲，尼克和盖茨比是同一种人。因为盖茨比死后，尼克还一直以为黛西会回来，至少会打个电话，还以为昔日参加盖茨比派对的“朋友”会来参加葬礼，直到最后没接到黛西

一个电话，直到在五号路遇见汤姆以后，尼克才渐渐领悟到些什么。在尼克心中，盖茨比始终都了不起，他既是当初搞奢华派对的富豪盖茨比，也是最后活在他心中的追梦赤子盖茨比。

盖茨比是一个了不起的人，他的了不起在于他无所顾忌地爱着黛西多年，他的心是纯粹的。虽然盖茨比经过多年的奋斗，进入了上流社会的圈子，他从来不为金钱、权力与荣誉所动，事业上的建构是为了与黛西更接近。不幸的是，他的一生以悲剧结束，包括他梦寐以求的爱情。

——12文化事业管理：许宏运

第二篇：了不起的盖茨比读后感

从《了不起的盖茨比》中各人物窥探一战后美国资本主义繁荣背后的人性缺失

姓名：陈玉龙 班级：公管教育 学号：2012221111110039

头上戴顶金帽子，为博她的青睐 你要跳得还算高，给她跳个痛快， 等她喊出来：“我的情人戴金帽、跳得高

一定全给你，我的情和爱”

——《人间天堂》

第一次世界大战结束的时候，第二次工业革命也刚刚完成。美国作为一战的战胜国，一跃超过英国成为资本主义世界第一大强国，出现经济空前繁盛的景象，全国各地一派欣欣向荣，小汽车、电灯、电话便利了人们的生活。人们觉得不会再打仗了，是时候尽情享乐了，年轻的一代更是觉得进入了一个欢乐绚丽的新时代，他们开始放弃传统的道德标准，信奉拜金主义、享乐主义，整日纸醉金迷、灯红酒绿。经济的繁荣代价是社会的世风日下。 《了不起的盖茨比》的故事就发生在这个时期。

故事通过主人公尼克的视角讲述了盖茨比的故事，为了爱追求金钱，以金钱博取爱，最终死于他人枪下。小说通过盖茨比追求爱情梦想的破灭，表现了年青一代“美国梦”的破灭这一主题。

盖茨比就是一个追逐美国梦的年轻人，早期美国梦意味着:只要经过努力不懈的奋斗便能获得更好的生活，亦即人们必须通过自己的勤奋、勇气、创意和决心迈向繁荣，而非依赖于特定的社会阶级和他人的援助，而在一战结束后美国梦却在悄悄变味，其背后的动力成了对财富的渴求。盖茨比为了能得到心爱的姑娘不惜铤而走险贩卖私酒以此获得巨额财富，从此开始整日笙歌艳舞，没日没夜的在心爱的姑娘黛西附近宴请宾客只为引起黛西的注意，这让我想起了当年周幽王为博妃子褒姒一笑而点燃烽火台的事。由此可见，在当时经济蓬勃发展的美国，拜金主义与攀比之风空前繁盛着：社会各阶层的人不择手段赚钱，有钱人花钱如流水、穷人贷款消费盲目攀比。于是经济越发呈现繁荣的景象，殊不知这虚假的繁荣最终导致1933年资本主义世界经济危机并最终引发二战。

女主人公黛西也是人性堕落的代表。黛西身为交际花每日晚上都有军人来自己家中参加宴会，而黛西跟随盖茨比的原因则是因为盖茨比欺骗她说他很有钱，随后盖茨比离开之后黛西便立马开始寻找新的归宿，有钱有势的汤姆成了他的丈夫，而带到多年之后盖茨比腰缠满贯的回来的时候，黛西又决定跟随盖茨比，后来黛西撞死了人，汤姆献计利用盖茨比对黛西的爱嫁祸于盖茨比，黛西又从了汤姆。黛西如一棵墙头草一般左右摇摆着，哪一方对自己有

便跟随哪一方。这也反映了当时美国女性拜金的普遍心态，用美貌博得男人的爱，用金钱衡量包括爱的一切事物，生活不加检点、奢靡腐败，以玩乐作为活着的目标，将男性视为自己的钱包，也就是说，她们追逐爱情的目的仅仅是为了金钱。

汤姆则是花心男人与不择手段的典型代表，汤姆在与黛西结婚后不久便找到了一个情妇，两人秘密交往数年，等到盖茨比回来要带走黛西的时候却又紧紧抓住黛西不放，这可不是因为爱情，而是因为占有欲与面子而已。但故事最后黛西竟然阴差阳错撞死了汤姆的情妇，汤姆立马装作完全不认识情妇的样子，还帮助黛西出谋划策嫁祸盖茨比，最终盖茨比被杀死，而这两人马上远走高飞消失不见，连盖茨比的葬礼都未参加。汤姆成为那个时期上流社会男性的典型代表，用钱来处理一切事物，在外面花天酒地，四处寻找情妇，并带有严重的种族歧视心态，在自私心膨胀到极点的时候可以干出杀人一类的事，人性竟至于堕落到如此地步!

故事中很多其他的小配角也反映了美国当时的社会现状：汤姆情妇的丈夫代表着美国的无产阶级穷人们，生活在社会的最底层，任富人摆布;盖茨比的父亲则在儿子死后，为儿子拥有如此大的房子与如此多的财产而骄傲，似乎忘了儿子已经死去这一事件：沃尔夫山姆在盖茨比生前只想着盖茨比的钱，在盖茨比死后装聋作哑„„让人感到当时美国社会的冷漠与自私

叙述者尼克则是一个旁观者，他不是这人格堕落中的一员，他以他的视角讲述了这发生在美国最繁华的东部的故事，故事的最后，尼克看清了东部的鬼影重重，世态炎凉，踏上了前往中西部的路途。

值得一提的是，作者菲茨杰拉德在凭借其另一本小说《人间天堂》出名时还不满24岁，菲茨杰拉德一夜之间成为了美国文坛一颗耀眼的新星。一个星期后，他与泽尔达在纽约结了婚。菲茨杰拉德和泽尔达年轻，迷人，拥有金钱和名望，是一对令人艳羡的金童玉女。他们活跃于纽约的社交界，纵情地享受爱情、年轻的生命以及成功的欢乐，过着夜夜笙歌、觥筹交错的生活，后来又长年在欧洲居住。但由于讲究排场，挥霍无度，他们的生活渐渐捉襟见肘。泽尔达因精神病多次发作被送进精神病院，菲茨杰拉德也染上了酗酒的恶习。1940年12月21日，菲茨杰拉德因为心脏病突发死于洛杉矶，年仅44岁。

这真的是莫大的讽刺。

菲茨杰拉德曾经这样形容欧美的三个国家：法国是一片土地，英国是一个民族，而美国是一颗赤子之心。世界各地的人都怀抱着一颗赤子之心来到美国追逐自己心目中的美国梦，但到了最后无非是追逐更多的金钱罢了，在这经济繁荣却充满功利的社会中慢慢迷失自我。所以，黯然神伤的故事总是发生在最为绚丽的时代。

最后写一段狄更斯在双城记里面的一段话结尾

“这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代; 这是智慧的时代,也是愚蠢的时代; 这是笃信的时代,也是疑虑的时代; 这是光明的季节,也是黑暗的季节; 这是希望的春天,也是绝望的冬天; 我们什麼都有,也什麼都没有; 我们全都会上天堂,也全都会下地狱.”

第三篇：了不起的盖茨比读后感

仅此而已

用一周时间读完了，读间一直带着一个疑问，就是盖茨比到底有哪里了不起?读完之后，心中自然而然就有了答案。认为盖茨比了不起的就只有尼克和盖茨(盖茨比的父亲)，而盖茨认为儿子了不起是因为那做房子，亦或是那座房子的照片。而真正让尼克感到盖茨比了不起的就是对这份感情的自始至终所持有的态度，所付出的时间、努力，当然还有那个在对方看来不名一文的生命。合上书本，猛然想起前两天看的LOLITA，两部作品都是讲男主角奋不顾身的为心中的那个女子仰慕、奋斗、死去的故事，不知道最近为什么老看到这样的故事。这本书已经快有百年了，放在今天读，感受更真切的是感叹屌丝永远难逆袭心中的女神。

特别喜欢书中的几段描述!

其一，对于那盏绿灯的描述，以及对于赋予绿灯的意义，盖茨比每晚盯着隔岸的那盏绿灯看，看着那盏绿灯由模糊到清晰直至幻灭，它是盖茨比夜夜守护的梦想，是他一生追求的幸福，他向绿灯伸出双臂，他想伸得再远一点，伸得更远一点……

然后是还有盖茨比去黛茜家乡的那段描述，他绝望地伸出手，仿佛想抓住一缕空气，存留一个碎片，但是他朦胧的泪眼中，这一切都跑的太快他知道自己已经失去了那一部分，永远地失去了最新鲜最美好的那一部分……

以及最后葬礼时的凄惨落寞的描述，最后唯一的客人猫头鹰眼男人的不期而至，以及他的最后一句话：这个男人真他妈的可怜，那一

段真的让我快要落下泪来……

这个世界上，没有什么应该不应该，公平不公平，没有谁欠谁的，尤其是在感情的世界里，盖茨比只是做了他想要做的，黛茜也只是选择了更适合她的爱情和生活，仅此而已。

第四篇：《了不起的盖茨比》读后感

The Book Review of the Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald K. Scott, is one of the most famous classics. The narrator of the story is Nick and the hero is Gatsby. Nick was a graduate of Yale and then he lived in the West Egg, which was in the west of America. And then he made his acquaintance with Gatsby, a rich and mysterious man. Gatsby loved Daisy, Nick’s cousin, and he tried his best to meet her again with the help of Nick. However, Daisy had got married with Tom and she didn’t want to betray her husband. Unfortunately, Gatsby didn’t realize the fact that Daisy had changed a lot, which resulted in a tragedy, and still asked her to elope with him. When they went home from New York, Daisy killed Myrtle, Tom’s mistress, in an accident. Gatsby took the responsibility and killed by Myrtle’s angry husband at the last.

After reading this books, I felt upset for a long time. Gatsby was an innocent man and all he wanted was to regain his love. To achieve his own dream, he tried his best to earn money and raised his social class after the war. However, the sad truth is that the woman Gatsby loved most is the one who exploited him most. And the result of Gatsby’s effort was his death while he still thought that Daisy love him when he died.We always hold the opinion that we should work hard for our dream and we also believed that we can achieve it with our effort. That’s the reason why Nick added “the Great” to “Gatsby”. However, I think that we shouldn’t drown ourselves in our fancy all the time and we should think whether our dreams are reasonable and achievable.In the book, Gatsby was died and Nick didn’t lead a rich and comfortable life while Tom and Daisy had a great fortune and belonged to the upper class. Some people may draw the conclusion that we can’t be innocent like Gatsby and Nick or we will share the same ending as them. However, I disagree with this. Though Gatsby’s life was tragic, he enjoyed his life and was satisfied with it. If you had watched the film adaption of this books, you may find that Gatsby always smile. And Nick had a beautiful soul. On the other hand, Tom and Daisy didn’t suffer from the material life but they may feel guilty all the time. I strongly believe the fact that we can live well without much money but without a beautiful mind.

There is one more reason why I like this book. It’s the writing skills used by Fitzgerald that makes this books a classic. One of these skills is symbolism and it’s the symbolism used in the books that makes it become an irreplaceable classics. Take the dream of Gatsby as an example, dream is an abstract thing but Fitzgerald used the green light shinning on the dock of Daisy’s house as the symbol of Gatsby’s dream. What’s more, the change of Daisy is also symbolized by the change of the green light. When Gatsby invited Daisy to his house, he found the green light covered by fog. It’s the signal of the fact that Daisy was not the sweet girl any more.

Many people like to talk about the social class conflict linked to Gatsby and Daisy when they talk about this book. I agree that Gatsby’s story is an epitome of that age and the America Dream but I would rather consider it as a story of a man who fights for his dream all the time. And compared to the opinion that we should protect

ourselves and do what others do, I agree more that we should keep our innocence and fight for our dreams.

第五篇：《了不起的盖茨比》英文读后感

The disillusion of the American dream

- The Great Gatsby book review

The Great Gatsby is the representative work of American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald. It is a true reflection of 1920s. The book is a classical novel and has profound meaning of the essence of the American dream’s illusory. The writer showed the American social after the World War I in the book. It uncovers the money worship and hedonism in the Jazz Age and people’s selfishness and indifference in that time. What the novel describes is a tragic story about the disillusion of the American dream.

The story happened after the World War I. A young business man named Nick Carraway rent a house in the Long Island. In the opposite house there lives his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom

Buchanan. In the villa next lives Jay Gatsby. Gatsby holds big party every weekend in his villa but there is few people has seen his face. After a while Nick knows that when Gatsby was a soldier, he fell in love with Daisy. However, Daisy finally married with a rich man Tom Buchanan. When the war is ended, Gatsby began to do illegal business and become a millionaire in high society. In order to draw Daisy’s attention, he bought a big house in opposite to Daisy’s and often holds big party. Gatsby and Daisy meet again in the help of Nick. When this is known by Tom, he is burst into anger and they have a quarrel. With extremely nervous, Daisy

drives the car and killed Tom’s mistress Myrtle accidentally. However, Tom suggests Myrtle’s husband Wilson that it is Gatsby who killed her wife. In extreme anger Wilson shoot Gatsby and suicide. In the end of the book, when Nick held a funeral for Gatsby, none of his old friends join. Nick is disappointed to the dark high society of New York so he leave the city and go back to his home in the American Midwest.

The theme of the novel is to present the tragedy of the American dream’s disillusion by showing the story of Gatsby’s pursuing of dream. The so-called "American dream" means that in America everyone is equality of opportunity. People can realize their dream and achieve success just by themselves’ struggle. The American dream has always been an ideal that people are convinced of and pursue of. It is a kind of spiritual strength that promote America to developing and flourishing quickly. After the World War I, America has entered into an

unprecedented era of prosperity and the American dream becoming a crazy worship to money. The wind of money worship prevailing. So the American dream has been deteriorated as the social develop.

In this novel, the short life of Gatsby has go through the process of dream from start to burst. It symbolize the rise and burst of the American dream at the same time. One side of his American Dream is the dream of money. He realize this dream by illegal business which made him from a poor boy to a millionaire. However, the other side of his dream is the

dream of love and it make him into a sad ending. In fact, his loving dream is another form of his money dream. At first when he fell in love with Daisy, he was attracted by her material life. He yearns for not so much Daisy’s love as Daisy’s high society life. Daisy is the combination of love and money which he’s longing for. She is the represent of a beautiful life. However, in real life, Daisy is far from what Gatsby imagine. She is a selfish, shallow and timid girl and all she wants is money and high society life. Finally Gatsby’s dream broken and it also symbolize the broken of the American dream. The essence of the tragedy of Gatsby is the tragedy of American idealism. But then again, although Gatsby’s effort did not pay off, his spirit of struggling to realize his dream and change the fate is moving and deserves our admiration and learning.