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Jay Gatsby Born
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Jay Gatsby was a janitor at St. Olaf's
"An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf's in southern Minnesota. He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through." (99) -
James Gatz changes his name to Jay Gatsby
"James gatz - that was really, or at least legally, his name." (98) -
Jay Gatsby met Dan Cody
"He had been coasting along all too hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gats's destiny in Little Girl Bay." (99) -
Jay Gatsby and Dan Cody set sail for West Indies
"And when the Tuolomee left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby left too." (100) -
Dan Cody died
"It might have lasted indefinitly except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died." (100) -
Gatsby meets Daisy