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Gatsby meets Dan Cody at Lake Superior
"...at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career-- when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor the the most insidious flat on Lake Superior" (98) -
Gatsby works many odd jobs at Lake Superior like clam-digger and salmon-fisher for money
"..he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-digger and a salmo-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed." (98) -
Gatsby and Dan go on a trip on Dan's yacht
" A few days later he took him to Duluth... the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby left too." (100) -
Dan Cody died
"The arrangement lasted five years, during which the boat went three times around the Continent. It might have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died." (100) -
Gatsby met Daisy during basic training for WWI
"When I came opposite her house... she was sitting with a lieutenant I had never seen before... his name was Jay Gatsby." (74-75) -
Daisy left East Egg to say goodbye to Gatsby for he was going to war
"...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) -
Tom Buchanan marries Daisy
"In June she [Daisy] married Tom Buchanan of Chicago." (75)
