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Gatsby's wealth
James Gatz, 17 years old, meets Dan Cody in Little Girl Bay and changes his name to Jay Gatsby. He sails with him for 5 years. In 1912, Dan Cody dies and leaves 25,000$ to Gatsby, but his inheritance is taken away. -
Nick's background
He finished his studies at Yale University in 1915, and a little later in 1918 he took part in the Great War. -
Gatsby in London
Gatsby spent five months at Oxford University in England, in a program for army officers after he participated in the war. -
Nick's return
Nick decides to learn bond trading in New York. He rents a small house in West Egg, in Long Island, next door to Gatsby's mansion. -
Diner at The Buchanans
Nick drives to the Buchanans to have diner with his second cousin Daisy and her husband Tom whom he'd known in college. He also meets Jordan Baker. -
Meeting with the mistress
Tom takes Nick to meet his mistress Myrtle. They go to an appartment in Manhattan where there's a small party that ends up with Tom punching Myrtle in the face for talking about his wife Daisy. -
Party Time
Nick is invited to one of Gatsby’s house parties and meets him. Nick starts a frienship with Jordan. Gatsby takes Nick out, where he meets Meyer Wolfshiem, and where Gatsby meets Tom. Jordan tells Nick that Gatsby and Daisy had been in love five years ago. Nick invites Daisy over for tea so that Gatsby can “drop by”, so that they can reconnect. -
No more parties
Tom and Daisy come to Gatsby’s next party. Gatsby and Daisy begin their affair. He fires his staff and stops his parties because he got what he wanted: Daisy's attention. -
Hot day (part I)
Daisy invites Nick and Gatsby for lunch at her house. She and Gatsby plan to reveal their love to Tom, but instead in the unbearably hot day, the group decides to go to Manhattan to the Plaza Hotel. -
Hot day (part II)
Ath the hotel, Gatsby reveals the secret affair, and Tom reveals that Gatsby’s money comes from crime. Daisy is unwilling to completely renounce Tom, which decimates Gatsby. Daisy decides to stay with Tom. -
Accident
On the way back from the hotel, Daisy drives Gatsby’s car. She runs over and kills Myrtle Wilson. That night, Tom convinces George Wilson that it was actually Gatsby who killed her. Gatsby decides that he'll take the blame for Myrtle’s death. Also, Nick and Jordan break up. -
Rest of the day-s
After the crime, it was an endless routine of police and photographers and newspaper men in and out of Gatsby's front door. Also, a rope was stretched across the main gate and a policeman beside it kept out the curious. -
Bye bye Buchanans
Early that afternoon, Tom and Daisy had skipped town for good, leaving no adress. Nick couldn't contact Daisy when the murder happened. -
Death x2
Later that day, George shoots Gatsby and kills him in his pool while he was swimming underwater and then commits suicide. -
The funeral
Nick's the one who organizes everything for Gatsby's funeral. Gatsby’s father, Henry Gatz, comes to the funeral from Minnesota. Nick can’t find anyone else to come to the funeral. Even Wolfshiem refuses to come. Owl-eyes is the only other person who comes. -
Coming clean
Nick sees Jordan and talk over and around about what happened to them together and what happened afterwards to him. She tells him that she's engaged to another man. Without really believing her and after they've shook hands, he turned away. One afternoon late in October, Nick runs into Tom in Manhattan, where Tom confesses to telling Wilson that Gatsby was driving the car that killed Myrtle. -
Putting the past behind
Completely disillusioned and horrified, Nick moves back home to the Midwest after selling his car and leaving his house and Gatsbys'. Then, he walked to the beach and layed on the sand. -
The Great Gatsby
Nick writes this story about Gatsby and that fateful summer.