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too innocent to see through that his beloved Daisy was as dishonest and unconscientious as Tom, and they unique possessed selfish, cruelness, falsity, deceit as well as narrowness. In the cocktail party Gatsby held, Tom and Daisy smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or let other people clean up the mess they had made, so Daisy was not worthy for Gatsby to devote himself to her, and he lived in cruel environment. “So we beat on, boats on against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past”(Fitzgerald, 2002: 215). To repeat the past, Gatsby devoted all to his dream, but at last his efforts were hopeless. Actually, this was an ode of personality separated in special time and space. Gatsby tried practicing his figure again, prompting into upper class society and regaining original ideal beloved Daisy, whose actions were magnificent and epic, but he was destined to fail because his various efforts were sarcastic. He made a lot of lies for getting Daisy, yet she was only a beautiful body with good appearance and bad virtues, so Daisy has no qualification to be the person who Gatsby devoted his life to. Owing to his innocence, lacking of discerning power and self-comprehension, Gatsby fell into the trap that the social evil power set for him. Owing to his honestness, kindness, determined beliefs, tense desire and firm decision, he believed that he could build a real fairy-land. Doubtlessly, the description of American Dream was perfect, but the realistic world represented by Tom and Daisy was too absurd to withstand a single blow. Gatsby’s lack of mind and discerning power led to his final destructiveness——his destructiveness was not only in physic but also in spirit. It is human being’s tragedy. Bibliography [1] Arthur, Mizener. The Far Side of the Paradise: A Biography of F.Scott Fitzgerald Hilfflin Company, 1951. [2] Bruccolio, Matthew. J. F. Scott. Fitzgerald: A Life in Letter. Penguin Popular Classics, 1994. [3] Donaldson, Scott. Critical Essays on F. S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby[c]. Penguin Popular Classics, 1984. [4] Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Researching Press, 1992. [5] Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Penguin Popular Classics, 1994. [6] Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Translated by Wu Quan and Jia Ting: YuanFang Press. The world library Press Company, 2002. [7] Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. Hilfflin Company, 1991. [8] John, Kuehl. and Jack Bryer, ends. Dear Scott/Dear Max. Penguin Popular Classics, 1994. [9] Rubinstein, Annette. American Literature Root and Flower. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Researching Press, 1998. [10] 菲茨杰拉德. 了不起的盖茨比/夜色温柔[M]. 贾文浩，贾文渊（译）. 北京燕山出版社, 2005. [11] 黄绍湘. 美国通史简编[M]. 北京: 人民出版社,1979. [12] 刘英瑾,安秋萍. 金钱捕获下未泯的天真—简析菲茨杰拉德《了不起的盖茨比》中主人公盖茨比的悲剧[J]. 鞍山科技大学报, 2006,(4). [13] 吴建国. 菲茨杰拉德研究[M]. 上海外语教育出版社,2005. [14] 巫宁坤. 了不起的盖茨比/夜色温柔[M]. 南京: 译林出版社,1998. [15] 张礼龙. 美国梦的演变与幻灭—《了不起的盖茨比》评析[M]. 外国文学研究出版社, 1998. [16] 赵宏伟. 与社会透视下美国梦的幻灭—剖析《了不起的盖茨比》的深刻内涵[J].哈尔滨学院报, 2005,(8)