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James Gatz was born.
Page 95 " At the age of 17..."
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Gatsby "went" to college in St. Olaf in Minnesota.
Page 105 " An instinct toward his future glory had led him some months before, to the small lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota." -
At age 17, James Gatz changed his name to Jay Gatsby.
Page 104 Qoute: " James Gatz - that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen..." -
Jay Gatsby met Dan Cody.
Page 104 " When he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor...." -
Gatsby and Cody traveled to the West Indies
Page 106 " And when tuolomee left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby left too." -
Gatsby meets Daisy
Page 74 " The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girls wants to be looked at somee time, and because it semmed romantic to me i have remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby, and i didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years - ever after i'd met him on Long Island i didn't realize it was the smame man." -
Dan Cody died.
Page 102 " And it was from Cody that he inherited money - a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. He didn't get it."
