Gatsby's mind has stopped growing since he met and separated from Daisy eight years ago.
With a humble status, he lives in his fantasy world. There is his favorite girl there. He collects all the briefings about him, remembers the color of her favorite flowers, and remembers every bit when they were together. What makes his heart pure is that the youth’s hopes and desires are satisfied. The simplest heart.
If he integrates this desire into motivation, and strives to pursue his wealth and status step by step, maybe he will not be this "great Gatsby" who will stand next to Daisy at that time, he will be with him. In the struggles and struggles of life, he sees the various states of life, the scorching state of the world, the vicissitudes of life, the reality and helplessness, the understanding and compromise. When he meets Daisy again, he will become wiser and more intelligent. Reason, rather than this surreptitiously seeking attention, tense when meeting, showing his wealth in front of his girlfriend, forcing his girlfriend to deny love to her husband, and finally silenced the older teenager who could not extricate himself from his fantasy.
What finally destroyed him?
Is it Daisy? NO. Is it himself? Nor is it.
It's the sudden wealth. He gained a lot of wealth by chance. These are not the result of years of painstaking management of his own, but more of his luck. And this seemingly beautiful pie from the heavens deprived this poor young man of the opportunity to practice his mind. He no longer has to run for life, he can do whatever he wants, he can whitewash himself to become the person he dreams to be, and all the drunken fans who will become his favorite girl are the embodiment of his youthful mind. Daisy is the dream he wants most, and he wants to make this dream come true.
From what he did, you can find that the appearance with traces of time is actually just a teenager, but the girl he loves has experienced the baptism of time and has grown into a wife and mother. As a wife, she has endured the pain of enduring humiliation for marriage. As a mother, she has experienced the pain of childbirth and the worries of parenting. She is no longer the carefree and innocent girl in white clothes. She is already in a purple dress. Lady.
However, all these young people are undetectable. Wealth allows him not to change. His mind is still the same as that of the boy who lived in his fantasy world. He only saw his own desires, but could not see the love of his lover. He could not hear Daisy's perfunctory lies. It was clear that Daisy was fascinated by his appearance, and at the same time, he couldn't see the panic that Daisy showed when she felt his desire to control. As a teenager, without the hardship of life, he still doesn't understand how to know people and how to love people.
But Daisy, who had seen through all of this, approached him step by step under the lure of money. Gatsby's mind, where did he know that, on the day he thought his dream came true, it was the beginning of his official demise. The once innocent girl was honed by life into a cunning fox to seduce the teenager. She has no guilt for Gatsby, because her heart is laughing at your childishness and indignation. You control and show off her. At the same time, she can also use you to avenge her loving husband and take away some of the boring marriage for her. , So many benefits, then why would she let go easily.
The teenager who was silent in the fantasy couldn't see these, he firmly believed that Daisy would go with him and cover her crimes for her. When solving the real dilemma, sober Daisy chose her husband. This man in reality who is not perfect but understands that she still has feelings for her. And the boy who was immersed in his fantasy hoping that everything would be restored and realized in his own way, and who wanted to love 100% perfection was finally abandoned. It was not Daisy who abandoned him, but reality.
And this is not a romantic and tragic love story, but a realistic growth drama. Tell you with a living story that time moves forward without stopping. If you don’t experience things, solve problems, or grow, you will not have enough wisdom and ability to face the next stage of life. The problem, you may stop on that day forever, and you have no chance to go the road ahead. While Gatsby shows you a beautiful caring heart, the price of not growing is also nakedly shown to you.
If he grows up, he won't be so idle with only Daisy Daisy, there will be more important things to do. If he grows up, he will notice her changes when he sees Daisy, pay attention to her experience over the years, find her needs, and provide help within his capacity. Calmly observe whether this woman is not the lover he once dreamed of, and then decide whether to love or not.
Every difficulty in life is not meaningless. If you overcome one, you will have more wisdom and strength, and you will grow. Without growth, there will be a price.
If you still have such adolescents and girls in your mind,
please remember to tell: In any case, growth is always good. It allows you to learn to distinguish between the important things and the boring little things; which are relatives and friends who need care and love, which are passers-by who can pass by with a smile; those things can come true dreams, and which can not be realized.. ...Wisdom brings the effective use of time, and the effective use of time brings more wisdom, making you more powerful to love others and yourself, more free and happier.
So, in any case, please embrace growth.
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