The Great Gatsby
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"He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy".
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Gatsby lives in the past in order to create his illusion of the future. He idealizes a past through a very narrow lens: he uses it as a source of identity that has long ended. Gatsby can't deal with what his life's become: his only place of solace is in a past that matches his illusions.
