While for others, it inspires and influences them throughout life. Gatsby fitted both situations. In an attempt to redefine himself, Gatsby would overcome poverty and the law, and would even challenge time itself. Through the substantial use of symbolism, one can view Gatsby’s determined ambition to make his dream a reality. Daisy Fay, the love of his life became his dream, and Gatsby’s relentlessness to obtain her became his life. Not knowing that Daisy doesn't love him anymore, he continued to pursue her in hopes of revitalizing each other's past relations. Ultimately, like any other unrealistic American Dream, Gatsby’s desires were unattainable. His connections with his past create the person he wanted to become, but for his dream required Daisy’s love, something that he cannot recreate from the past. Nevertheless this did not cease his determination, as one can ask him, “Can [you] repeat the past?…Why of course you