【正确答案】正确答案：The title of the book The Great Gatsby comes from the character Nick Caraway in the story and is in reference to the character "Jay Gatsby". Gatsby is "great" because he manages to live a life of happiness and optimism simply by convincing himself that life is full of hope and goodness and by ignoring the corruption and darkness in the world around him. This makes him great because few people are able to ignore the bad things in life and focus only the good. F. Scott Fitzgerald meant to make the title ironic because although Gatsby is great he is also fake and impossible. The character called "Jay Gatz" changed his name to "Jay Gatsby" in order to make himself the perfect persona for the woman he loved (Daisy). When he changed his name he made himself from being an ordinary person into this almost super-human bundle of optimism and hope who strives for perfection in everything. Because of this he started to believe his own lies and couldn"t envision a way that Daisy would be able to reject him (to the extent that he blanks out the fact that she"s married!). Ultimately this means that when Daisy does reject him the character of "Jay Gatsby" falls apart and only Jay Gatz is left. He then symbolically dies to show that after the creation of "Jay Gatsby", "Jay Gatz" can no longer survive in the real world. In other words, Gatsby is great because he is larger than life in his optimism. This is ironic because it is this optimism that ultimately kills him.

【答案解析】解析：本题考查《了不起的盖茨比》中“了不起”的含义。这里既暗指盖茨比的美国梦精神也含有了作者的反讽。