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I think that the central message of The Great Gatsby is about how you shouldn't live in the past and can't regain something that is lost. I think that this is the central message because in the book it talks about how Gatsby just wants to get back his old love and does anything to get it, he eventually dies because of this. He was trying to make everything like it was in the past but he got nothing because you can't make someone love you or relive the past.