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Gatsby was completely a man who tried his best to promote his social status from a lower class to higher class. His perseverance, courage and efforts made him get numerous money and stride into the higher class. ―The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard-it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby‘s mansion.‖（Fitzgerald,p9）From these words, we can speculate his efforts of being a rich man.
He fell in love with Daisy when he was a lieutenant and he wanted to get married with her. However, he joined the army oversea to fight. In the army, he wrote letters to Daisy to keep touch with each other. After he knew that Daisy was married to Tom who was very rich he intended to obtain Daisy again. Thus, he came back to Daisy‘s hometown to get some information of Daisy. For five years he inquired about her, and he also did some business to make money to attract Daisy to him. His courage and willpower for Daisy was great though he was failed at last.
In order to get money, he changed his name first and then inherited money from Cody. ―James Gatz-that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career-when he saw Dan Cody‘s yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior.‖ (Fitzgerald, p97) At that time when Gatsby saw Cody, Cody was fifty years old and he was a rich man. Cody got lots of money through copper transactions in Mantana. Thus, many girls and women wanted to gain his money, trying their best to achieve their dreams. Cody asked Gatsby a few questions and found that Gatsby was quick and extravagantly ambitious. A few days later, Cody took him to Duluth and bought Gatsby a blue coat, six pairs of white duck trousers, and a yacht cap. Cody left some money to Gatsby but Gatsby received no money because Cody‘s woman Ella Kaye got it after Cody‘s death. What he got was appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man.
Gatsby‘s pursuit for love, Daisy, and money and his continuous efforts to make them come true made him rich and obtained a higher social status. His courage and persistence were the characteristics of the ―American Dream.‖ ―Gatsby‘s life was filled with dream, the dream of beauty and love. He dedicated all his life to realize his dream.‖(张福勇)
3.2 Gatsby’s kindness and generosity
Every week Gatsby would hold party for all the guests coming to his gorgeous house. ―In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.‖(Fitzgerald, p49) ―On weekends his RollsRoyce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.‖(Fitzgerald, p49) ―Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York –every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.‖(Fitzgerald, p49) Gatsby treated his guests with sumptuous feast and from all his actions he was known as a kind and generous man. When his guest‘s tore her gown on a chair, and Gatsby asked her name and address – a week later she got a package from Croirier‘s with a new evening gown in it. Gatsby treated all the people in his banquet well no matter others did not know him. And his smile was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it. His smile let other person feel comfortable. When Gatsby planned to meet Daisy in Carraway‘s house he asked his gardener to mow his lawn. He wanted to introduce Carraway a job as a reward.
3.3 Gatsby’s sacrifice spirit and filial piety, self-discipline
When Daisy drove Gatsby‘s car on the way home, Daisy killed Tom‘s mistress Myrtle without stopping. Gatsby kept silence in order to protect Daisy. And that night he waited outside of Daisy‘s house and saw if Tom tried to bother Daisy about that unpleasantness in that afternoon. ―He spoke as if Daisy‘s reaction was the only thing that mattered.‖(Fitzgerald, p140) The next day Gatsby was murdered by George and Daisy and Tom left for. He pursued his love and sacrificed his life at last. In this sense, he was a great man.
Gatsby also loved his father. After he died, his father drawn his book he owned when he was a child. On the last fly-leaf was printed the word SCHEDULE, and the GENERAL RESERVES. Gatsby visited his father two years ago and bought him a house. With the schedule and the reserves he wrote he would have a big future in front of him and ever since he made a success he was very generous with his father.
4 The analysis of Daisy’s and Tom’s meanness
Daisy and Tom belonged to the higher social class. ―They were the representatives of the aristocrats and they pursued life‘s elegance and pleasure. However, their spirit was empty so they spent money in idling away their bored life. They were selfish, irresponsible, had a degenerate moral.‖(苗永敏) ―They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…“(Fitzgerald, p174) From the mercantilism Tom and Daisy were cared about their wealth, not other people‘s feeling.
4.1 The analysis of Daisy
Daisy was a woman who was beautiful, elegant, lovely, and romantic but her pretty was just an illusion. She was a cold and detached person with an empty spirit. What she pursued was the desire for material.
4.1.1 Daisy’s beauty and her attractive voice
When carraway came to Daisy‘s house for the first time she wore a white dress which was rippling and fluttering as if she had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house. When she asked Carraway some question in her low, thrilling voice Carraway was drawn his attention to it. Daisy‘s voice was the kind of voice that the ear followed up and down, as if each speech was an arrangement of notes that would never be played again. Her beauty and charming voice made many men propose her.
4.1.2 Daisy’s apathy, indifference, and selfishness
When Daisy killed Myrtle, she did not admit her mistake; instead, she and her husband Tom told George that it was Gatsby who killed Myrtle. After Gatsby went back home, she did not call him and she did not visit him as well after Gatsby‘s death. All she concerned was her luxurious life. Daisy had a daughter but their relationship was not mother and daughter. Pammy just liked a toy which was brought when its master needed it. She did not love her daughter but funny. She convinced Gatsby that she would go with him, but she still cared Tom‘s wealth and status and she knew that she still need them when she knew that Gatsby was not belonged to her social class.
As far as Daisy was concerned, moral, responsibility, and obligation did not exist in the world. To sum up, Daisy only cared about herself without taking other people into consideration. She could desert anyone in order to protect herself.
4.1.3 Daisy’s desire for material and money, and her empty spirit
Daisy and Gatsby fell in love with each other; however, when Gatsby took apart in the army she married Tom who was very rich because Gatsby was poor. During the five years Gatsby knew that he tried to get her again he must become rich through his efforts to attract Daisy to him. When Gatsby showed Daisy his ―achievement‖ to her, she was attracted. While Gatsby took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before Daisy, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk covered the table in many colored disarray, Daisy began to cry stormily and said she never saw these beautiful shirts. ―For Daisy felling itself was not a true thing but just a ?pose‘.‖(王晓环) As the words said by Gatsby that Daisy‘s voice was filled with money.
Daisy‘s spirit was blank and empty, she had not goal or idea to pursue or set up. Just as she said she did not know how to live that afternoon when Gatsby first came to her house, what she would do the next day, and the next thirty years.
4.2 The analysis of Tom
―Tom Buchanan lives according to a certain social code.‖(Bruccoli, p70) He belonged to the higher social class and he inherited the wealth from his family. Thus, he did not care the feeling of other person and he was cruel, selfish, and indifferent. He only paid attention to what he possessed no matter money or women. Tom was a playboy who traveled with a waitress of a hotel by driving and then dated Myrtle in New York. ―He was foolish, selfish, arrogant and supercilious.‖(苗永敏) He could have mistress and have a self-indulgence life but he could not bear his wife to have a man. ―She knew before we were married –God knows where!‖(Fitzgerald, p120) ―Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy‘s running around alone, for on the following Saturday night he came with her to Gatsby‘s party.‖(Fitzgerald, p103)
4.2.1 Tom’s cruelty and crudity
When Tom was in New Haven he was one of the most powerful ends that ever played football. ―Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always learning aggressively forward.‖ (Fitzgerald,