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The Beautiful and Damned

"Gloria was beautiful. She was shining with beauty. Her golden hair shone like sunshine. Her eyes were grey and very cool."  (p. 9)




     If you have a lot of money, do you work? I would be at work if I have stood on the same footing because doing something happier for me. However, I seem like I use too much money by going shopping and so on if I have ample funds in hand.

    Two people called Anthony and Gloria are main characters of this book. Anthony is a handsome man and Gloria is a beautiful woman. However, each of them have bad points. He does not work and run through his parents' fortune. Likewise, she is selfish and always act as her pleases due to her beauty. They fall in love each other and then marry but they do not always have a nice time. Their married life also chanes as time goes by and many realistic problems such as money or time stand in their way. They always make an escape from the real world and live too optimistics. Can they overcome those difficult situation?

     This book is in the Heinemann series. I think the book makes us be realistic against the real society. In addition, it tells us the difficulty of living someone together. If you have time to read, I want you to try it.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Retold by Potter Laura. (1992). The Beautiful and Damned. London: Heinemann International

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  1. Mako2020年6月23日 14:02

    I guess everyone has experience thinking that if they run away from the real life and enjoyed their rosy life... Me too. But it allows me to dream while coping with the matter we face.
    Too optimistic or too pessimistic is not help for our life anyway. I believe we have different tasks given by God and have to challenge them over the life. That's the life lol

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