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Gatsby is a fisherman
"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 any other capactiy that brought him food and a bed." (104) -
Goes to St. Olaf College
"An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to a small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southen Minnesota." (105) -
Changes name to Jay Gatsby
"James Gatz- that was really, at least legally his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment... when Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor... on Lake Superior."(104) -
Meets Dan Cody
"Cody was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silver fields... The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire." (105)
"To young Gatz... the yacht represented all the beauty and glamor in the world... At any rate Cody asked him a few questions... A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yacht cap." (106) -
Dan Cody dies
"The arragement lasted five years during which the boat went three times around the contient. It might have lasted indefinietly except for the fact Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died." (106) -
Gasby meets Daisy
"His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn't lay eyes on him again over four years- even after I'd met him I didn't realize it was the same man."(80) -
Gastby goes to war
"Wild rumors were circlulating about her- how her mother found her packing her bag one winter night to go to New York and say goodbye to a soldier who was going over seas." (80)
