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James Gatz is born
"His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people- his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all." pg. 104 -
James Gatz first time near Lake Superior
"For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam digger and a salmon fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed." pg. 104 -
Attend St. Olaf
"An instict toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota. He satyed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferociousindifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through." pg 105 -
Meet Dan Cody
"To young Gats, resting his oars and looking up pat the railed deck, that yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world. I suppose he smiled at Cody- he had probably discovered people liked him when he smiled. At any rate Cody asked him a few questions (one of them elicited his brand new name) and found that he was quick, and extravagantly ambitious." pg. 106 -
Dan Cody dies
"The arrangement lasted five years during which the boat went three times around the continent. It might have lassted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died." pg. 106 -
Meet Daisy
"One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling.... He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her." pg. 117 -
Gatsby goes to war
"'Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief a nd I tried very hard to die but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. I accepted a commision as a first lieutenant when it began. In the Argonne Forest I took two maching-gun detachments so far that there was half a mile gap on either side of us where the infantry couldn't advance. We stayed there two days and two nights, a hundred and thirty men with 16 Lewis guns..." pg. 70
