The Great Gatsby

"The Great Gatsby" is set in the upper-middle class society living in New York City and Long Island in the 1920s. From the perspective of a poor boy Nick, it tells the story of Gatsby's unscrupulous efforts to acquire wealth and his transformation from a pauper to a "great" rich man, as well as his emotional entanglement with Daisy, the lover he lost due to poverty in his first love. Gatsby had a fanatical love for luxury cars, mansions, and extravagant parties. His crazy hedonism and unscrupulous pursuit of wealth reflected the common restlessness and moral regression of the society at that time. Daisy's emotional attitude towards him also revealed the cruel social reality at that time and the destruction of the "American Dream". This book received high praise once it was published. Famous writers such as Haruki Murakami, Hemingway, and Eliot all gave the book high praise.