Before his death, he refuses to let the gardener drain the pool when he says “don’t do it today”. This is reflective of the way he cannot let go of the past, like his love for Daisy, and Fitzgerald successfully portrays how unchanging Gatsby’s love is, and would have always been, due to the nature of his feelings and belief that one ‘can repeat the past’... By keeping the pool as so, arguably Gatsby could believe that the summer he had been so desperately waiting for was not over, and neither was his chance at obtaining Daisy.