Analyze the following passage. What do you think the author is trying to convey?
"There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his
dreams-not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone
beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it
all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that had drifted his way. No amount of fire or
freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."