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erald Shortly after the birth of “the city boy”, his family had moved several times, and by that time his parents were past fifty, at the same time, one fact became more and more oblivious that his father’s career had reached a dead end. And before that, his mother had lost her two previous children, all of her attention was paid on the young Scott, through he has a sister, he also has the focus of his parents. Just like Eble remarks: a somewhat pampered and sheltered boy, and lived in an apartment of rented houses, an inheritor of a sense of family superiority without much visible ways to make it in real life. Even in the early days of his times in the St. Paul Academy, he gradually displayed his affinity for literary expression; he published fiction in the school magazine, and kept copious journals. However, at such a young age, his attitude toward literature was not clear, ambiguous, writing, in some way, it was merely means among many for protecting the social position and the main status, and young Scott also devoted himself with equal passion to the club politics and the sports, and not mention the dancing class, as a means of getting the status he deadly wanted to. Now, it’s not difficult to explain the phenomenon that continuously occurred in the novel when Gatsby introduced his glorious past, usually he will tell his audience that I am a Oxford man with a wrong accent that will harsh the ears. As we know that the Oxford University was a famous, ancient university and a university full of miracle, if you have the experience in that university, it will make your past suddenly has a highlight, which were absolutely proved the educational experience takes important part in the heart, or in the deep mind of Fitzgerald. Even it got out of a man who even has not the image of the literature, and it displayed the phenomenon in that special times of 1920’s America that literature was a important element in the meaning of success. That is why the young Scott was so creasy for the literature in such a young age. B. The Appearance of Gatsby At the early days, Fitzgerald’s crazy for literature and the every means to get success, in some way, which catch the readers’ interesting and it also referred the appearance of the Gatsby will not as common as the dead water, didn’t move any more or didn’t have any high and low peaks. At the first sight, Nick’s first view of Gatsby himself is peculiar one: the latter seems almost to be engaged in some sort of mystic rite, and Nick still on home without speaking to him. To Nick, he thought that Gatsby turns toward the direction of the mansion of Daisy across the bay, where only one mystic green light on the mansion of the Daisy, and the gesture of him just like a worshipper before a shrine. And gradually he vanishes, leaving Nick alone in the completely darkness, and indeed Gatsby is a worshipper before a shrine, and we can get it in the following chapter of the novel. Only to him the shrine or the Goddess is a delicate, lovely, and essentially parasitic woman, Daisy, a vaguely realized image of some so-called beauty which in real life is only an illusion. The mystic appearance of Gatsby in the novel, in fact, is the real on stage of Fitzgerald, at the same time, his first on the stage of the social stage, full of the same mystic image of Gatsby. We also can guess like that the author also have same gesture of Gatsby, just like standing before a shrine, comparing with Gatsby his shrine or god is