Jay Gatsby poured his life and dreams into a woman who threw them all away for her own selfish ‘success.’ Although some argue that Daisy was a victim in the matter, Gatsby’s greatest flaw in his love for Daisy was placing her too high on a pedestal. He remembered the wonders of her innocence and did not understand the cold, selfish woman she had become until it was too late. Daisy destroyed Jay Gatsby, not only in the way that she toyed and played with his mind, but also by leading to his death. Daisy left Gatsby with a false sense of hope all throughout the story. It began with her green porch-light and ended with her utter disappearance, not even to return for his funeral. The way in which Daisy can ‘move on’ so quickly is heartbreaking for Gatsby and the reader. Gatsby’s Daisy died the moment that she married Tom Buchanan and Daisy’s Gatsby began his slow but sure destruction at the very same point. Although Jay Gatsby made a truly valiant effort at restoring the beautiful love of his past, he comes to realize in the hardest possible way that people change, and love can destroy you.