dream

Gatsby and Daisy had a deep-seated love affair, but Gatsby had to go away because of the war. In a distant foreign country, on the battlefield of heavy artillery fire, comrades-in-arms die and die, and death echoes around them at any time. He can't show vulnerability, he can't give in to loneliness, he can't surrender to fate, so he needs a dream. Daisy became his dream, a beacon to support him through the mire.