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Daisy's Born
"The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay's house. She was just eighteen, two years older than me" (p. 74). -
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The Great Gatsby Timeline
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America Enters World War I
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Nick Graduates from New Haven
"I graduated from New Haven in 1915" (p. 3). -
Nick Goes to World War I
"I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as The Great War" (p. 3). -
Jordan Sees Gatsby for the First Time
"When I came opposite her hosue that morning her white
roadster was beside the curb, and she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before" (p. 74). "His name was Jay Gatsby, and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years-even I'd met him on Long Island" (p. 75). -
Daisy's "Debut" (Winter)
"By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever. She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was
presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans" (p. 75). -
Nick Returns from World War I
Daisy says "You didn't come to my wedding" to Nick (p. 16). Nick says "I wasn't back from the war" (p. 16). -
Gatsby Moves to New York (sometime between 1918-1921)
http://edu.glogster.com/glog.php?glog_id=6642089 "His name was Jay Gatsby, and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years-even after I'd met him on Long Island I didn't realize it was the same man" (p. 75). -
Tom's First Caught Cheating (publicly)
"A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into
a wagon on the Ventura road...the girl who was with him got into the papers, too, because her arm was broken-she was one of
the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel" (p. 77). -
Daisy and Tom Buchanan Get Married
"In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before" (p. 75) -
The Armistice
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Tom and Daisy's Daughter is Born
"The next April Daisy had her little girl and they went to France for a year" (p. 77). -
Women's Suffrage
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Nick Moves to New York
"I came east, permanantly, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two" (p. 3). -
Nick Leaves New York (Autumn)
"When I came back from the east last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever" (p. 2). -
Scopes Trial
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Prohibition Passed
