Everyone has a dream, hope, purpose...Something that they strive for, and would do anything for. However, the future these character's search for is, in reality, as aspect of our past that they wish to recapture.Their dreams don’t move us forward, but bring us back to a moment of our past which we wish to live in forever.
Gatsby's obsession with making Daisy his again shows how he refuses to move on and how he thinks recapturing a moment of his life will make him happy again.
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