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Gatsby works as a Fisherman
"For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-differ and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed." pg 98 -
Went to St. Olaf's for College
"An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf's in southern Minnesota." pg 99 -
Gatsby meats Dan Cody
"Then he drifted back to Lake Superior, and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor in the shallows alongshore" pg 99 -
Dan Cody Dies
"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." pg 100 -
Gatsby doesn't get his inherited money because of Ella Kaye
"And it was from Cody that he inherited money-a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. He didn't get it. He never understood the legal device that was used against him, but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye." pg 100 -
Gatsby meats Daisy
"The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since." pg 75 -
Gatsby goes to war
"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." pg 75
