The Great Gatsby depicts the mysterious image of Gatsby in his relentless pursuit of dreams and his final illusion. The author wrote a paean to this tragic hero of America. Myth-archetypal critics believe that, the author unconsciously combined the image of heroes in ancient myths and legends with Gatsby's story, since religious rituals and archetypes permeate the whole book. This paper takes Gatsby's double pursuit of American Dream in the movie as the main line, using archetypal criticism to analyze the inextricable relationship between Gatsby and the heroes in ancient Greek myths and biblical stories, trying to discover the mythological color of the book and confirm that The Great Gatsby work is a very touching mythical epic.
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