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Period: to
1912-1922
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Jay Gatsby lives by Lake Superior
"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 in any other capacity that brought him food and bed." p. 104 -
Jay Gatsby goes to St. Olaf
"An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to a small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota. He stayed there two weeks..." p. 105 -
Jay Gatsby meets Dan Cody
"...Cody asked him a few questions (one of them elicited the brand new name) and found that he was quick, and extravagantly ambitious." p. 106 -
The money goes to Ella Kaye
"And it was from Cody that he inherited money--a legact 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. He was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man." p. 107 -
Jay Gatsby met Daisy Fay
"The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby..." p. 80 -
Jay Gatsby leaves Daisy for the 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 goodbye to a soldier who was going overseas." p. 80 -
Daisy gets Gatsby's letter
"...the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress--and as drunk as a money. She had a bottle of sauterne in one hand and a letter in the other."
"'Here, dearis.' She groped around in a waste-basket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls." p. 80/81 -
Jay Gatsby meets Meyer Wolfsheim
"'Have you known Gatsby for a long time?' I inquired.
'Several years,' he answered in a gratified way. 'I ade the pleasure of his acquaintance just after the war.'" p. 76 -
Nick Carraway meets Jay Gatsby
"...I turned to my new acquaintance. 'This is an unusual party for me. I haven't even seen the host. I live over there--' I waved my hand at the invisible hedge in the distance, 'and this man Gatsby sent over his chauffeur with an invitation.'
For a moment he looked at me as if he failed to understand.
'I'm Gatsby,' he said suddenly." p. 52
