Abstract: The Great Gatsby is a masterpiece of the American writer Fitzgerald. With its unique artistic technique, the novel presents the living conditions of the American bourgeois in the Jazz era represented by Gatsby. From the perspective of spiritual ecological criticism, the essay analyzes the image of the main characters and the spiritual crisis they are facing in terms of the prevailing of materialism, the lack of morality and the disillusionment of ideals, and discusses the inspiration and reflection that The Great Gatsby brings to people at the present age.