“The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.”
(F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Pg 104 second paragraph)

Gatsby’s parents were unsuccessful, with that their dreams were ruined. His imagination had never really accepted them as his parents. He possessed a "platonic" conception of himself. He was a son of God. Gatsby plainly imagined himself a Christ, born of earthly parents but actually a son of God. From there Fitzgerald reveals and describes Gatsby’s past. From a Platonic conception of himself, Gatsby conforms to an ideal of himself that transforms reality into possibility (Fitzgerald Pg 104). He wanted Daisy to tell Tom that she never truly loved him. But in reality she couldn’t agree to that. He always kept that possibility open, it was what he lived for. After meeting Dan Cody he became devoted to wealth and luxury. He left his past like a train headed to single destination; that was Daisy. Along the way he would run into troubles, society took its toll on him. People were convinced that he was involved in bootlegging some even believed that he had killed a man. His platonic conception made him seem as though he was living the life, but truly his only happiness would come from getting Daisy back. Once again like a train he had an ultimate crash. Tom was in his tracks he accused Gatsby of killing Myrtle and led him to his death. He would truly keep his conception to the end.