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t him with the regret that his last novel not finished and his once "top girl" Zelda alone in the world. Meanwhile, with the clear and surprising sound of the gun, the dream of Gatsby awoke, and left him lying in the blood like a flower, and he was abandoned by his beloved girl Daisy. A. The Death of Gatsby “Gatsby keeps silent and hangs down his head for a long time, without taking care of the things around him. And as if he predicted something will happen in the future, and may be he was considering the way to cope with that. At this time, the morning bell is ringing at the distance, and the sweet voice and the charming smile of Daisy is going away with the morning bell and becoming more and more slow and vague. What’s more, Nick’s friendly persuasion to his present situation is only the wind beside his ears, without any use or any help. Finally he looked at the sky with a bitter smile and then has a deep breath.”(Fitzgerald, 1925:98) After a brief and largely uneventful trip to Europe, Fitzgerald and his wife returned to St. Paul, where their daughter was born, and then they returned to New York, entered another round of gay life, and they rented a house in Long Island where provide the setting for The Great Gatsby. And at the same time, the conflict between the Fitzgerald’s own artistic hopes and the deadly need for money to provide the enough material bases for his top girl, Zelda, demanded from a life as a tribute to her existence, and this condition became continued and intensified. And his wife once told Fitzgerald: you want me to work for my cost, and for my dream. This is a strong proof to show that her greedy became more and more bigger, while this very turning point that his creating source is in the dilemma, where he couldn’t more any more in his novels. At the same time, the dream his wife told him is not the dream Zelda wanted, but the dream of his own direction of his life, and his dream with much false glittering light, and covered by the reputation which made himself not clearly about the meaning of his dream. B. The Down of Fitzgerald What’s more, with the carnival again and again, and the money get from the artistic creating is not balanced with the large cost for the meeting hold for showing off their wealth, and also not balanced with the greedy of Zelda, the only way to get out of this condition Fitzgerald could use is the alcohol with the helpless tears. Meanwhile the mental breakdown of Zelda is that she wanted to pursue her own fantasies of a career in ballet and as a novelist in her own right, which made Fitzgerald moved closer to the bottle. And in sometime he and the Hemingway became the intimate friends, and at that time he was the famous writer, while Hemingway was the unknown, by the end of the years, their roles reversed, with Hemingway getting on his own stage of literature, which was also gave a big strike on Fitzgerald. Even much of his time was spent on the Europe with restlessness which itself was born of despair rather than happiness. At the same time, Zelda became increasingly unbalanced, and had one breakdown and he also found that writing became more difficult. Hardly into his thirties, was he convinced that his career was all but finished. Then returned to America and Zelda’s father’s death made her had another breakdown, in some way, this increased the end of Fitzgerald. The morning bell was ringing, and it showed that something should go to their end. Ⅴ.The End of the Legend Bang!