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James Gatz meets Dan Cody
“He changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career--when he saw Dan Cody’s yacht…” (98).
“...while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor…The arrangement lasted five years...Ella Kaye came on board one night Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died” (100).
“And it was from Cody that he inherited money--a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. He didn’t get it” (100). -
America joins WWI
“My family all died and I came into a good deal of money...After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe--Paris, Venice, Rome--collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget some very sad that happened to me long ago” (65-66).
“Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life” (66). -
Daisy and Gatsby meet at Camp Taylor
“One October day in nineteen-seventeen...the officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at…” (74-75). -
Daisy tries to send Gatsby off
“Wild rumors were circulating about her--how her mother had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to New York and say good-by to a soldier who was going overseas” (75). -
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Post-Armistice, Jay Gatsby goes to Oxford for 5 months and receives a letter from Daisy (who had already met Tom Buchanan)
“After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home, but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead” (150-151).
“It was in nineteen-nineteen. I only stayed five months” (129).
“...there was a quality of nervous despair in Daisy’s letters. She couldn’t see why he couldn’t come...The letter reached Gatsby while he was still at Oxford” (151). -
Daisy gets engaged with Tom Buchanan
“...in February she was presumably engaged to a man from new Orleans” (75). -
Daisy’s relationship with Tom Buchanan becomes more intimate.
“She wanted her life shaped now, immediately--and the decision must be made by some force--of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality--that was close at hand. That force took shape in the middle of spring with the arrival of Tom Buchanan” (151). -
Daisy marries Tom Buchanan, and Gatsby goes to Louisville
“In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before” (75).
“He came back from France when Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip, and made a miserable but irresistible journey to Louisville on the last of his army pay. He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night…” (152). -
Gatsby leaves Louisville and meets Meyer Wolfsheim
“The track curved and now it was going away from the sun, which, as it sank lower, seemed to spread itself in benediction over the vanishing city where she had drawn her breath” (153).
“First time I saw him was when he come into Winebrenner’s poolroom at Forty-third Street and asked for a job...I raised him up out of nothing...and when he told me he was an Oggsford I knew I could use him good” (171). -
Daisy has her daughter.
“The next April Daisy had her little girl” (77). -
Gatsby meets Daisy Buchanan
“Five years next November” (87).
