Gatsby 5

Jay Gatsby ruined whatever chances he might have had with Daisy by forcing her to do what he said. They could have run off together and live their lives somewhere else, but Gatsby needed her to tell Nick that she never loved him. He needed things to be like what they were 5 years ago, but that was impossible to do. He claimed that he did everything for her, he bought this nice house, nice clothes and everything else for her. He wanted to live with her in that house and that was the way it had to be.  His high expectations of her caused her to drift apart from him. He was his own downfall.