第1个回答 2020-09-14
追答 : 中西部小子盖茨比到东部闯荡一夕致富,他在自己的豪宅夜夜宴客,俨然慷慨荒唐的富豪大亨,他梦幻地看着纽约长岛上一座闪着绿光的灯塔,寻觅着他梦寐以求的女人黛西.他的邻居、也是故事的叙事者尼克,眼看着盖茨比的宾客们接受他的招待却冷漠无情,眼看着盖茨比奋力追求那腐败的虚华.盖茨比最后的结局,让尼克对东部浮华的名流生活梦碎,宛如看着繁华楼起再看着它楼塌.
第2个回答 2014-06-29
第一段引号内是情节概述
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. “The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion andobsession for the beautiful debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.“
Fitzgerald, inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shore, began planning the novel in 1923 desiring to produce, in his words, "something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." Progress was slow with Fitzgerald completing his first draft following a move to the French Riviera in 1924. His editor, Maxwell Perkins, felt the book was too vague and convinced the author to revise over the next winter. Fitzgerald was ambivalent about the book's title, at various times wishing to re-title the novel Trimalchio in West Egg.
First published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold poorly; in its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title "Great American Novel". The book is consistently ranked among the greatest works of American literature. In 1998 the Modern Library editorial board voted it the best American novel and the second best novel in the English language.