The Great Gatsby tells the story of a poor peasant boy who works his way up the ranks from a poor army officer to a millionaire and is renamed Jay Gatsby. But when he returned from overseas with a military medal after the war, his love Daisy had married a young man from Chicago named Tom. But when they meet again, Gatsby thinks he can go back in time and relive his old dreams, but as time goes by, he finds that Daisy is far from the person he dreamed of.

But this kind of disillusionment is not long after, Daisy drives over her husband's mistress, Tom frames Gatsby, Gatsby is finally killed, Daisy actually did not come to the funeral. The narrator Nick, seeing through the cruelty and malice of the upper-class rich, leaves New York and returns to his hometown in the Midwest.

First of all, Gatsby is great because of his endless pursuit of dreams. No matter how much the reality torments him, he always face it bravely.Gatsby gave up everything for his dream in his heart. Gatsby's life had been spent in hope, and at the moment of his death, he was still in dream. Gatsby came from a humble background. When he was young, he met Daisy, who was also young and beautiful. However, Daisy's parents did not think that their family background made them have the destiny to become husband and wife, because Gatsby at that time did not have a good background and was poor in money. From then on, Daisy became Gatsby's only pursuit and the dream he had been striving for

Just as Nick said, Gatsby is a man who creates hope for himself, and of course, his hope also deeply destroys him.

Second, gatsby's story tells the reader, if a dream, there is only the pursuit of material and the desire to become a "Great man", but lack of why have what should survive after wealth and have such problem with human ultimate meaning of thinking, this dream will eventually burst.

When money is everything, the ideal component of the American dream has long gone. Although the materialistic American dream is not a dream that fully expresses the American spirit, the materialistic side of the American dream gives people such thinking: after the materialistic dream of the American dream is realized, what kind of spiritual dream should be realized.

No society can only rely on a high level of material life to maintain the meaning and interest of people's life for a long time. What people really want to live is the spiritual life, and only the spiritual life can have unlimited space for rich development. The dream of pursuing material things is a dream with no future, a dream that will eventually be disillusioned.