20世纪20年代的美国，空气里弥漫着欢歌与纵饮的气息。一个偶然的机会，穷职员尼克闯人了挥金如土的大富翁盖茨比隐秘的世界，惊讶地发现，他内心惟一的牵绊竟是河对岸那盏小小的绿灯——-灯影婆娑中，住着他心爱的黛西。然而，冰冷的现实容不下飘渺的梦，到头来，盖茨比心中的女神只不过是凡尘俗世的物质女郎。当一切真相大白，盖茨比的悲剧人生亦如烟花般，璀璨只是一瞬，幻灭才是永恒。一阕华丽的"爵士时代"的挽歌，在菲茨杰拉德笔下，如诗如梦，在美国当代文学史上留下了墨色浓重的印痕。20世纪末，美国学术界权威在百年英语文学长河中选出一百部最优秀的小说，《了不起的盖茨比》高居第二位，傲然跻身当代经典行列。(In 1920s in the United States, the air filled with the smell of money. In a chance, poor staff Nick become a member of the millionaire Gatsby's hidden world where spend money like water and he was surprised to find that the only inner trap was the other side of the river's little lamp light—where his goddess Daisy lives. However, the cold reality does not accept dreams, in the end, Gatsby goddess is just all earthly material girl. When the case is entirely cleared, all of the tragic life of Gatsby also was like fireworks bright that lights a moment and disillusionment is eternal. The gorgeous elegy of the "Jazz Age" under the author's pen leaves heavy footprint in the contemporary literary history of America. At the end of twentieth Century, the United States academic authority in the hundred years of English literature selected one hundred best novels, "the great Gatsby" ranked second, proudly among the contemporary classic ranks.)